Excerpt from The Avicultural Magazine, Vol. 5: Being the Journal of the Avicultural Society for the Study of Foreign and British Birds in Freedom and Captivity; Nov; 1913 to Oct; 1914 Executive to be recorded in the past year is the retirement of Mr. R. I. Pocock, ers. From the Honorary Business Secretary ship after the five years tenure of that office allowed by the rules of the Society. Owing to the increasing pressure of other work, Mr. Pocock felt unable to offer his services for another term of five years and Mr. T. H. Newman, who held the Secretaryship from 1904 to 1909, kindly consented to resume the Office. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.