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the Wood Hoopoe (Phceniculus somaliensis) in confinement,

illustrated by good photographs of one which has lived two and a

half years in the Zoological Gardens of Berlin.


There are also articles on breeding the Burrowing Owl, and

Bourke’s Parrakeet; of birds noticed between Lake Victoria,

Nyanza and Mount Ruwenzori; on Passerine and Thick-billed

Parrakeets by Mr. Hampe, well known to our members and the

London Zoo; a bird show held in Erfurt, and a very comprehensive

proposal for an all-German Budgerigar breeding club.


The aims of the Society are briefly recapitulated in the opening

pages, and will be found to correspond closely to those of the

Avicultural Society.


E. F. C.



THE FOREIGNER


Those enterprising aviculturists, Messrs. Boosey and Brooks-

bank, the founders of the very successful Keston Foreign Bird

Farm, have now launched upon a new venture, the production of a

quarterly magazine with the above title. It has come into being,

we are told, u as a direct result of the numerous and increasing

demands of clients and visitors to the Keston Foreign Bird Farm

for a booklet containing lucid and elementary articles on the

breeding and management of foreign birds.”


The first number contains articles by Mrs. Darnton, Lieut.-Col.

A. H. Wall, the Marquess of Tavistock, Messrs. Jeffery Lang,

G. J. Boosey, A. Sherriff, Denys Weston, Alec Brooksbank, and

Richard Cotterell. The price of each part is Is. 3d., or the annual

subscription 5s.



