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The L.C.B.A. Show. 
The L.C.B.A. Show. 
By Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S., etc. 
To my regret I was unable to attend the great Show at the 
Horticultural Hall, and to miss seeing the many rare and beauti- 
ful birds, gathered together from far and near, also to miss meet- 
ing many avicultural friends and acquiantances, whom one seldom 
meets, save at such functions. 
As I glance through the Catalogue at the list of birds, first 
appearances appear to be quite numerous, yet though new to the 
show bench, none are rearly new to aviculture an i most of them 
have been described more than once in our pages, but before I go 
further I must state that I am writing of the birds as species and 
not of the individuals exhibited, as these I have not seen.* 
Mr. Maxwell's Peale's Parrot Finch {Erythrnrn 
penlei), very similar to the Common Parrot Finch, but has a blue 
throat, it first appeared at the Zoo in 1911 ; very few specimens 
have reached private hands. This species has reared young in 
the Summer Avairies at the Zoo, this year. 
Mr. A. Ezra's ABYSSINIAN Love-bird (Agnpornis taran- 
ta). I do not think more than one pair of this species has reached 
England alive, and this pair passed into Mr. H. D. Astley' s posses- 
sion who came very near to breeding them, but the cock died, and 
I opine the bird exhibited is the surviving female of this pair. They 
are about the size of a Peach-faced Love-bird or a little smaller, 
with the body colouring a deep shining grass green, dark brown 
flights, rich crimson beak and plumbeous legs and feet, the male 
has a cap of the richest crimson. 
Mr. Maxwell's Purple-capped, or Porphyry-crowned 
'LoY^keQi (Glos^opi^ittacKS porphyrocephalns ) . Two pairs of this 
species were imported in 1910 by Mr. Wallace, one pair of which 
passed into Mr. Millsum's hands being transferred later to Mons. 
Pauvvels, but unfortunately they did not live long at Everberg. 
It is a South Australian speci«!S, not unlike the beautiful Varied 
Lorikeet, but much rarer. A sketchy description is as follows : — 
Forehead, lores and ear-coverts yellow, slightly splashed with scar- 
let, crown purple, the general colouring being various shades of 
green (see B.N. Vol. L N.S.) 
Mr. 6. H. Raynor's AUBRY's PARROT (Poeocephalus' au- 
*A member writes "The array of Foreigners was truly marvellous," 
