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1942: Cage Birds at 40

LETTER: FROM INDIA

Sir, I have been a regular reader of Cage Birds for three years. Many thanks to your boys who put it to press, and to our heroic seamen whose lives are risked delivering it. My mother sends your journal to me every week, and although it has decreased in size, I still enjoy it. After I have finished with it I forward it to my chum, who is another bird lover. He is stationed near the N.W. Frontier of India.

I have in my collection many species, including a hill mynah, a hoopoe, a golden oriole, two forest parrakeets, some grassfinches, a pin-tail and

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