DECEMBER, 1910 
The Foreign Bird Club.: 
Notices to Members. 
The Magazine : The present issue concludes the first vol- 
ume of our new series, and with the first issue of Volume Il.Joom- 
ing before us, we venture to suggest once more several important 
points : 
First and foremost the Club Journal should be a record 
of members' aviaries, birdrooms, and their occupants. There is a 
need that there should be comprehensive accounts of Garden 
Aviaries, Indoor Flights, and Cages, and their occupants. 
Show News: This will be welcomed — but we would point 
out that the tabulation of awards sfiould be as brief "^s possible, as 
these will have mostly already appeared in the " Fancy " Press. 
Accounts of rare, unique, and uncommon birds (especially members'), 
species new to aviculture, should be described and their demeanour 
noted, etc. — thus not only will results be permanently recorded 
in the Club Journal, but the accounts made interesting and instruc- 
tive, and we trust such will be sent in from all localities. 
Field Notes: This interesting and valuable feature will be 
maintained; may we ask those writing of birds at first hand, that 
is, in their native haunts, to wherever possible, state the natural 
food of the species they describe. 
British Bieds: While we have been able to keep this 
feature going, it has not assumed the proportions it should have 
done — we would urge all those keeping indigenous species to sup- 
port this section — we would also suggest to those having roomy 
natural aviaries, that the Chats, Wrens, Warblers, and the insect- 
ivora generally, make interesting occupants, moreover, with many 
of them close observation in a state of nature is difficult, if not 
almost impossible — many new facts as to their home-life should 
be brought to light in the aviary. 
Month's Arrivals: Your Hon. Editor is more or less of 
a cripple, and he is seldom able to get round to the dealers' estab- 
lishments, and this feature (an interesting, practical, and instruc- 
tive one) has languished of late— this ought not to be — if all will 
do their part and send in notes of uncommon and rare birds met 
with during such peregrinations, this would soon be remedied. 
Our Illustrations : Four coloured plates have been put in 
hand for next volume, one of which we hope will ajipear in January 
issue. Any increase on this number and the quantity of photo- 
'graphic reproductions and half-tone illustrations, must depend on 
the the response of members to the Illustration Fund and oiir 
growth of membership. 
Our Membership . We are convinced that the members as 
a whole do not fully realise the necessity for increase — either in its 
importance to the well-being of the club, or the relief it would give 
