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In February, Mr. W. H. St. Quintin gives us a coloured 
plate of the Waxwing and another of its egg, wdiile relating 
liis unfortunate failure to rear the young that were hatched 
in 1903; in March he follows this up with notes on 
the breeding of the Eider and other Ducks, Tragopans, 
Capercaillies, and so forth at Scampston. In October 
Mr. G. H. Gurney, a new member, signalizes his advent by 
a good paper on Centropus sup.erciliosus, brought by him 
from British East Africa, which is preceded by a shorter 
notice in October on the breeding of Aramides ypecaha in 
his aviaries. 
In October, November, and March those constant con¬ 
tributors Mr. H. D. Astley and Mr. R. Phillipps join forces 
to write of Agapornis nigrigenis (col. pi.), and give an excellent 
account of its breeding, wherein we wish to call special 
attention to the habit noticed in some members of the 
genus of carrying nesting-material among the feathers so 
as to leave the bill free for climbing purposes. In September, 
October, January, and March, Mr. Astley also writes on the 
nesting of Turacus corythaix 3 on rare birds from New Guinea 
(especially the Paradise-birds in Mrs. Johnstone’s col¬ 
lection), on certain Thrushes, and on Bower-birds. In 
September, moreover, Mr. E. J. Brooks gives an account of 
the breeding in captivity of Artamus superciliosus, and 
Mr. Williams of that of Conurus ceruginosus; while Mr. C. 
B. Smith has furnished a series of papers in the various 
numbers on the display of the Monal Pheasant, on the 
Bock Ptarmigan and Harlequin Duck, and the nesting of 
Nothoprocta maculosa and Francolinus vulgaris on his 
premises. 
In November and December Mrs. Johnstone and Sir 
William Ingram are once more to the fore with articles on 
Paradise-birds, the former writing on Cicinnurus regius , of 
which she possessed two males and three females (col. pi.), 
and the latter on Paradisea rudolphi brought from New 
Guinea by Messrs. Horsbrugh and Stalker. In October 
Mr. T. H. Newman describes his successful attempt at 
breeding Geophaps scripta. 
