Excerpt from The Avicultural Magazine, Vol. 6: Being the Journal of the Avicultural Society for the Study of Foreign and British Birds in Freedom and Captivity; Nov; 1914 to Oct; 1915 This last volume will be found quite up to the standard, both in size and quality of its contents to any of its predecessors, and it is this fact which calls for special thankfulness, for in this time of stress and anxiety, when so many of our contemporaries have had to be very much reduced, or have been forced to disappear altogether, we have been able to give our members their usual monthly magazine. How much this happy state of affairs is due to the unceasing efforts of our untiring Editor perhaps the majority of our members scarcely realize, for only those who see the actual production of a monthly magazine like ours know the continual strain and labour which it entails. 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.