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If you think the suggestion advisable T shall be glad if you 
will put it forward as a proposition. 
Walter Swayrland. 
[I am certainly in favour of Mr. Swaysland's sug'gestion, which I 
consider might with advantage be extended and that simihir gatherings 
might be arranged N., S., E., and W., so as to meet the convenience of all. 
Will members kindly convey to me their opinions upon the matter, so that, 
shall I say, expert meiitul gatherings, may be arranged as early as possible. 
—Ed.] 
Sir, — I should like to suggest that as many of our members as 
possible meet at the Palace Show ; have a dinner or something similar, 
and meeting afterwards, as I feel sure such would tend to the well-being 
of the club. J. H. HARRISON. 
[Will all who care to attend such a gathering communicate with me at 
once and I will arrange for same, probably Saturday afternoon or evening 
would suit the majority.— Ed.] 
The Month's Arrivals. 
On December Kith I received from my friend, Mr. A. Sutcliffe, who is 
holiday making in the West Indies, sixteen Passerine Ground Doves, fifteen 
White Winged Doves, six Pea Doves, four White Headed Doves, Three 
Violet Doves, Three Partridge Doves, and a Hen Ring-tailed Pigeon, What, 
however, was of more interest to me, was a cage of small birds. Mr. Sutcliffe 
despatched eleven Honey Suckers, nine Blue Quits, a pair of Orange Quits, 
and a Yellow Warbler. Seven of the Honey Suckers arrived alive, they are 
pretty little Black and Yellow Tree Creepers ; the pair of Orange Quits are 
Red-throated Blue Ta.na,gers,((Tlossnpt/la riiffic(in /■'<), they are both alive and in 
show condition. The nine Blue Quits had been kept in a small tamborine 
by some native boys for a week, and were in wretched condition when 
despatched, four of them however reached here alive, they are Tanagers 
(EupJio/i/ii Jaiiiaica) ; the Warbler was dead on arrival. 
A second lot left Kingston, Jamaica, on December KUh, and reached 
me on the .Slst, and when I say that it is my opinion that they had not been 
fed after leaving Port, it is needless for me to add that they were all dead, 
why the cages were despatched to me labelled live birds I do not know, 
probably it was a joke on the part of the party into whose charge they were 
given ; they would have been an interesting lot if they had been fed en 
route ; tliey wci-e i)i'incii)ally Tanagers and Tree Creepers, but past close 
examination. R.S. 
T w.is fortunate enough to be at Mr. Flamlyn's last Friday, when some 
birds arrived from Janr.iica, among them a cock Red-throated Blue Tanager, 
with three hens or immature cocks, and a bird which was ()uite new to me, 
which I take to be the Banana Quit. S.M.T, 
