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Visits to Members' Aviaries. 
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Our first visit was to the bird-room upstairs, in vvhich I 
noticed excellent specimens of Gold-fronted and Hardwick's 
I''ruitsuckers (Chlurof^sis aurifroiis, and liardwicki). They were 
doing- well on the usual menu of fruit, insectile mixture, milk- 
sop and mealworms. 
We next went to the outside bird-house, which has no 
fiiyht attached, but has larg'e glass doors, shutting on to wire- 
netting, which can be opened when the house has summer 
occupants. It is heated by a service of hot-water pipes along- 
the back. I did not take measurements, but I should think it 
vas approximately 80ft. long, 8ft. wide, with a height of 12ft. 
at the front, rising to at least 15ft. at the back: it is a lean-to 
structure with a southern aspect. 
it had not many occupants, as the bulk of the birds are 
left in the outdoor aviaries all the year round. 
The first bird to attract my attention was a Tanager of 
uncertain species, not yet being in full adult colour. Last 
autumn the Duchess of Wellington bought a pair of birds, 
advertised and sold as Archbishop Tanagers ; one of these, a 
gorgeous specimen, died in early November, I think. The body 
was sent to me and I found extensive cerebral hemorrhage. 
I saw at once it was not an Archbishop Tanager, but a really fine 
specimen of Euphonia pectoralis, the uncommon Pectoral 
Tanager. The other one is the bird referred to above, and 
while I cannot speak with certainty, as I did not handle it, I 
do not think it is any species of Euphonia, but probably w'ill 
prove to be a male Striated Tanager, also a very uncommon 
species on the bird-market. 
The next birds I noted were a pair and three young Giant 
Whydahs (Clwera procne). All were in eclipse plumage, and 
five finer birds I never saw. The young birds were reared in 
1919 and hove Jiot as yet donned full adult colouration; appar- 
ently this species does not come into colour till the second year. 
Last year young birds were hatched out but not fully reared. 
( )ther birds were present, but I failed to note their species. 
The next aviary was all glass and wire ; it contained only 
a few canaries, but these were in the best of health and in fin? 
