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in the mornings, irrespective of the elements, when they would feed

generously from their table out of doors.


I trust the foregoing may prove of some interest to other

aviculturists.



THE CHANGE OF EDITORSHIP


Our members will be very grateful to Miss Chawner for the large

amount of work she has done for the Society during her term of editor¬

ship and all will regret that she now finds that she must relinquish

the post. Miss Chawner is one of our most experienced aviculturists

who has successfully kept and bred many birds, notably Owls. During

several years past she has held the important post of Curator to

Mr. Spedan Lewis’s fine and ever-growing collection, and under her

charge this has become one of the most important private collections

in Europe. We are very glad to be able to report that Miss Chawner

has consented to serve on the Council, and her knowledge and experience

will still be at the disposal of the Society.


To find a suitable Editor for our Magazine is no easy task, for such

a post involves a knowledge of ornithology with its terms and nomencla¬

ture and also of editing scientific matter, for we would wish our

Magazine to be regarded as a scientific as well as a practical journal.


The Council, with the advice of M. Delacour, has asked Miss Phyllis

Barclay-Smith to undertake this task and has every confidence in its

choice.


Miss Barclay-Smith is a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London

and a Member of the British, Czechoslovakian, Dutch, and German

Ornithologists’ Unions ; Corresponding Member of the Royal Hungarian

Institute of Ornithology, Honorary Member of the British Falconers’

Club, and Secretary of the International Committee of Bird Preserva¬

tion. Further, she is Editor of The Naturalist's Calendar and a con¬

tributor to Nature , Country Life , The Field , Discovery , etc. She is also

one of the Official Observers of birds in the Royal Parks for H.M. Office

of Works, and was Secretary of the section which includes aviculture



