Editorial. 
Editorial. 
Errata : 
l'ai;e 133, line 12, " /l^apuniis iiiadagdscaricnsis " slioukl rcaJ 
Agapornis cana. 
Page 210, line 33, " Agapornis iiiadagascariciisis " should read 
Agapornis ccvici. 
Page 228, line 26, "It lies in all," should read // shoiihl be in all. 
Rktrospkct : With this issue another Club year is 
completed; the past lies behind, but there are many lessons to 
be learned therefrom that, if noted and acted upon, will tend to 
the Club's welfare and mutual improvement in our study of the 
cult of aviculture. 
The Secretary's Report, elsewhere in this issue, partially 
points out wherein we have failed, and also suggests the 
remedy, and, as Editor, I must also again press the need of 
more members contributing to the Club Journal. If only a 
few others would emulate the example of Mr. Shore Baily, 
what a Journal we should have ! In the volume just completed 
there has been too much from the Editor's pen. which he 
deplores; true, some have written " the more the better — this 
i-^ very pleasant reading, provided the writers were not " pulling 
the Editor's leg " — anyway, seriously such is not for the perma 
nent good of the Club Journal we want ; the Club needs a more 
varied publication of individual avicultural experience; this we 
can only gain by more members coming out of their shell and 
contrilniting liberally to our Magazine. Bird Xotks. While 
all the criticisms of the volume just completed that have reached 
us have been favourable, yet on the lines indicated above we 
are conscious of failure ; this is one of the lessons the past year 
teaches us. Are we prepared to profit by it ? Many of our most 
valued contributors made the supreme sacrifice for King and 
Country — .F.B.C. and its Journal suffered very heavily in this 
resi)ect, and the aftermath of war has not spared us either — 
surely those who can will step into their places and make good 
the gap the " departed " so enthusiastically and ably filled — the 
need is real, and your Editor earnestly requests the co-operation 
of all.- 
Wliile we have had 110 hint of this , it may be the Club 
