All Rights Reserved,. February, 1912. 
BIRD NOTES: 
THE 
JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. 
The Scottish National Cage Bird Show. 
By H. Goodchild, M.B.O.U. 
P'or the third time, I made the 400 miles journey from Lon- 
don to " Auld Reekie," for the express purpose of drawing some 
of the many charming exhibits at the tenth annual exhibition of 
the " Scottish National Cage Bird Society," held (probably for the 
last time) in the Corn Exchange, Grassm,ai'ket, Edinburgh, on 
December 30th, 1911, and January 1st, 1912. 
Although the birds that interested me totalled only some 150, 
there were among them several which were only to bie seen ia 
the " Modern Athens," and others that cannot be seen every day, 
either in my beloved haunts, Epping Forest, the Pentland Hills, near 
Edinburgh, or the Penine E-ange of the north of England, or even 
in our London " Zoo." 
In the British Section the entries totalled 386, while the 
Foreign Section — apart from h& continental Goldfinches and Bull- 
finches — had only 54. But though the entries in eachi case may 
have been less than when I last had the pleasure of writing 
about them, there was compensation for the journey for me, and 
those few members of the F.B.C. whom I saw there, doubtless also 
did not regi-et going. 
Taking the Foreign Section first as being of most interest 
to the majority of our readers, I should place first for Ornitho- 
logical interest Miss E. G. R. Peddie Waddell's beautiful pair of 
Rock Peplar Parrakeets, which were placed second in the class. 
The two birds were slightly nervous, and the male had a taU 
feather sticking rather out of position and chafed at the time of 
judging and a small temporary stain on his tail, otherwise they 
were perfect, and by far the best specimens of the species I 
remember seeing. Along with them was a male Malaccan Parra- 
keet {Pataeornis longticauda-) quite tame and in perfect feather. 
Beside these for interest may be placed the same lady's Himalayan 
Whistling Thrush, the first I remember seeing on the show bench 
but, unfortunately in the same condition as the Rock Peplar, and 
Malaccan Parrakeets. 
Our member, Mr. J. M. Walsh, showed several of the most 
charming and beautiful of the smaller birds, notably the White-i 
eyebrowed Wood-Swallow (Artamus supercilmsus), from Australia, 
in perfect condition, very tame, and so healthy and happy (ap- 
