32 The Scottish National Cage Bird Show. 
parently) that it sang- while I was drawing it. Of all the Wood- 
!^ wallows I have seen (I have seen five or six species), this was 
the sleekest and most silvery, and in some of its attitudes was' almost 
as trim and tight as our own Swallows or Martins. This bird was 
awarded the r'.B.C. medal. Mr. Walsh also showed Maroon, Black- 
throated, and Tricolour Tanagers, and a pair of Black -ihcjaled 
Sibias, from which my drawing of the cf was taken. 
The Yellow-winged Sugar Biid shown by Mrs. T. Taylor 
was exceptional in condition and brilliajice, quite equalling the 
gems shown in London by Mrs. K. Leslie Miller, and Mr. S. M. 
Townsend. Another bird in splendid condition was the Green Glossy 
Siarling of Messrs. Nicholson and Son. This bird, I am told has 
been in captivity ten years. 
A Ceram or Ked Lory, a Blue-cheeked Bai'bet, a Melba 
Finch of Mr. F. Howe's, a Green-billed Toucan of Mr. W. 
Baxby's and a Hardwick's ''ruit-sucker, were amongst the other 
interesting exhibits. ' 
The bird placed in jont of Miss Peddie Waddell's Rock 
Peplai" Parrakeet, was desc bed as an " Adelaide " in the cataj- 
logue, but I saw ait a glan e that it was not that. An Adelaide 
Parrakeet is like a Pennant, but is orange-red instead of crimson, 
while this bird was dark green on the back with blapk centres 
toi the feathers and Lad on indistinct yellow collar and broken red 
on the head and breast — just what one would expect a cross oetween 
a Barnara and a Eosella to be like, and I have no doubt myself 
that that was what it was. Miss Peddie Waddell fared hard not 
getting a first prize in the whole section with twelve entries, in- 
cluding the rarest birds in the show. 
The British Birds were as good in their way as thos^ei of 
the Foreign Section, the interesting classes (Oriiithologically speaking) 
containing nearly lUU entries. The most iutei'esting bird was doubt- 
less the 9 Dartford Warblen', shown by Messrs. Martin and Archer, 
seen alive for probably the first time at a Scottish show -or fjr that 
matter, anywhere in Scotland — ^as it is a southern species, commoner 
in Spain than in England. The only other true Wjarbler in, the 
show was Mr. G. W. Lawrie's Sedge Warbler. Mr. A. W. Watson (the 
able Secretary) showed a Meadow Bunting, a Black-headed (the 
true E. melanO'Cephala), that rare visitor from the continent), and 
an Ortolan, the latter charmingly silky and tight, but i-ather dim 
in colour, as also was auothn- Ortolan in the class. 
The first prize amon,';st the small insectivorous birds de- 
servedly went to an exquisite. Black Redstart in faultless condition, 
vei-y tame and charming, entered by Mr. Edmund Taylor, while a 
Tree Creeper (in a cage Imed with dai'k blue plush or velvet) 
came very near it, for everything but rarity. Both cf and 9 Bearded 
Tits and also Waxwings were here, a solitary Shore Lark (from 
London), Corn and Snow Buntingsi, a lujtino " Yellow Hammer,'' 
White or Pied Linndt, Thrush, and Blackbird, while Grey and 
