Excerpt from The Avicultural Magazine, Vol. 1: Being the Journal of the Avicultural Society, for the Study of Foreign and British Birds, in Freedom and Captivity, November, 1902 to October, 1903It is with much satisfaction that we present the ninth Annual Volume of our Magazine, the first of the New Series, to the Members of the Society, together with our Report for the Year: satisfaction, not because we have reached, nor even approached, either perfection or finality in improvements, but in the pleasing and incontrovertible fact that we are able to point to a steady advance all along the line.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.