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Scottish National Cage Bird Show. 
The class for small Insectivorous British Birds (generally con- 
taining the most fascinating birds in the section) boasted 18 entries, 
with two Black Eedstarts (one exhibited by our member, Mr. S. 
Beaty ; vide plate) a Blue-throated Warbler, three Bearded Tits, a 
Red-backed Shrike (the first I ever remember seeing at a bird show ; 
vide plataj a bird entered as a Gold-crested Wren by Mr. G. G. 
Henderson (described in the weekly papers as a Fire-crested Wren, 
but this species the present writer failed to find), while Mr. Sydney 
L. Cocks exhibited a Yellow Wagtail, a Tree Creeper, and one of his 
most interesting Grasshopper Warblers. Two other Yellow Wag- 
tails, a Grey Wagtail, a Wheatear, two Wrynecks, and a Willow 
Warbler were also entered. 
The class for Larks or Pipits contained three Shorelarks, four 
Skylarks, and a Meadow Pipit. 
The class for any species of Soft-billed bird, larger than a 
Lark, contained two Waxwings, a Chough, two Magpies, two Missel 
Thrushes, a Song Thrush, two Fieldfares, a Blackbird, and last but not 
least, a Great Grey Shrike. This last was in somewhat imperfect 
condition, having the primaries damaged. The class for remaining 
birds contained Hawfinches, which was its chief claim to attention. 
The class for any species of hen seed-eater had no birds of 
special interest in it, while that for any species of hen soft-billed 
birds had a Tree-creeper, a Grey Wagtail, and a Blackcap (shown 
by Mr. E. J. Howe). 
The class for albinos, etc., had a dozen entries but we paid no 
attention to it on this occasion. The selling class contained a Nut- 
hatch and a Blackcap amongst 16 other birds, mostly common 
species, 
It should be remarked that the birds generally were in the 
high condition of feather, usual with oar Northern friends, and it 
is a matter for congratulation both that members of the F.B.C. 
so far away from Edinburgh as Mr. Beaty, in Cheshire, should 
send their beautiful birds there, and also that our Club is getting 
well known among thu residents, not only of the Modern Athens, 
but of the Lowlands of Scotland generally. 
FOREIGN SECTION. 
While the comparatively modest entry of 90 birds in the nine 
classes of the Foreign Bird Section was qu outclassed by the 400 
o Id British birds, the quality and interest of these 90 birds made up 
for the lack of quantity and both to the ordinary visitor and to the 
