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most earnest aviculturists will desire to possess a copy, and there should 
be very few members of the Foreign Bird Club who arc not included in 
the above category . 
Mr. I'agc is nothing if not up-to-date, as we find him adopting 
Dr. Oadow's system of classifying birds, which commences with th'- 
lowest forms and passes upwards to the concluding Family 
Fringilmdae. 
Opposite the title-page is a very pretty picture of the author's 
aviary, and besides several other illustrations (chiefly from excellent 
photographs by Messrs. H. Willford and W. Shore-Baily ), there is 
a most useful diagram . showing at a glance the technical names applied 
to th'' different parts of a bird — such as even a novice can understand . 
The brochure begins with two very pracfical chapters, the first being 
entitled " Breeding Hints," in which the writer very justly lays stress 
on the importance of supplying an ample and varied assortment of green 
food to feeding parents, whilst the second chapter is headed " Observa- 
tion," and in it is inculcated the vast importance of observing minutely 
and recording accurately all the happening.^ in our aviaries, including 
coiiiiship, nesting, egg-laying, incubation, and the rearing of the young. 
Jvext to this chapter comes the list of species known to have been 
bred in captiviiy in Great Britain. Seventeen pages are occupied by 
this list, whereas nine suffice for recording all the Hybrids ever reared 
in the same area. Special thanks are accorded to Lord Tavistock for 
many Woburn Abbey records included in both these lists . 
The remainder of Mr. Page's excellent work is given up to three 
Appendices, whereof the first contains a list of species reared in contin- 
ental aviaries only, and the second a similar list of hybrids — neither 
of then, claiming to be complete, but being none the less interesting. 
Ir. the third appendix we find a most useful list of Canary 
Crosses, all of them, except that of the Indigo Bunting, having been 
effected in Great Britain. In this list it is explained that in ail thi^ 
twenty-five crosses the hen was a Canary, but it is, we think, a little 
doubtful if that fascinating mule the Canary-Bullfinch has ever resulted 
from the mating of a hen Canary with a cock Bullfinch, and we (juite 
agree with the author that confirmation is required as to the parenta'i;'' 
of the birds tabulated as Orange Weaver X Canary. 
When we add that our Editor's work is copiously interleaved, and 
possesse;: that greatest essential of all books of reference — a full nnd 
accurate Index — we think we have said enough to induce every reader, 
of this review to lose no time in securing, whilst he m.ay, a copy of this 
indispensable and trustworthy compilation. It.H.R. 
Editorial. 
Stre.\ky-headbd Grosbeak (Poliospiza ifularis) . A 
few of this uncommon species, which has not been on the 
market for some time past, have come to hand recently, and 
