J8 Scottish National^Cage Bird Show. 
British* and Foreign Birds 
at the Scottish National Cage Bird Society's Show 
Edinburgh. Dec. 31st, 1909, and Jan. 1st, 1910. 
By H. ClooucHiLD, M.B.O.IL 
BRITISH SECTION. 
Our esteemed and energetic Editor, having himself described 
the choice exotic birds at the recent exhibition of tlie I^ondon Cage 
Bird Association, depnted the present writer to do the same for the 
splendid show of birds that was seen at the Corn Exchange, in the 
( I rassmarket, at Edinburgh, on December 31st, l'.t09, and January 1st, 
I'JIO. 
The very generous classification provided (24 classes all told) for 
British Birds, was responded to with a total of 419 entries, an average 
of over 17 iDer class. As at any other large sliow, most of the classes 
were of no special interest to ornithologists, being arranged for the 
more commonly kept Einches and Buntings. 
As showing the interest taken by our Northern friends in some 
of these birds, we may instance the Bullfinch, for which, in the British 
Bird vSection, two classes were provided, that for males having 25 en- 
tries and that for female birds having 24, while foreign Bullfinches, in 
the exotic section, had two classes ( <j and ? as before) with four and 
five entries respectively, a total of 58 Bullfinches entered for one show. 
There were also 47 Linnets (the " Lintie " of our Scottish friends), 36 
Greenfinches (" Green Linnets,") 32 Siskins, and 31 Goldfinches, 
these last, as with the Bullfinches, including the separate class for 
Eoreign specimens. 
Other Einches and Buntings nuistered strongly, while the seven 
classes for unspecified birds, with 81 entries, contained many charming 
and interesting feathered gems that one rarely gets a sight of either in 
captivity nr in nature. 
The classes were arranged as follows : — 
j- Goldfinch (British) ... 16 entries. 
Bullfinch „ ... 25 
Linnet (house moulted) ... 19 ,, 
,, (not house moulted) ... 28 „ 
Bramblefinch ... 17 ,, 
Chaffinch ... 18 ,, 
Greenfinch ... 14 „ 
,, (non colour fed) ... 24 „ 
Siskin .-• 13 ,, 
„ (non-colour fed) ... 20 ,,, 
