I don't give a XXXX what class you think you belong to from Royalty to a tramp but I do care a lot more than a XXXX what class your birds belong to, any exhibitor who has a bird that they find difficult to identify if at all possible should seek advice when entering it at a show, likewise any judge who has that same difficulty when judging A.O.C. classes should most definitely seek opinion from a fellow would judge before writing wrong class on the cage label, of course there are a few who are far too good at the job to need a second opinion and they are able to write wrong class more often than most of us, I think a little more care from both a exhibitor and judge alike would go a long way towards helping us to get rid of this water closet syndrome which creates so much disappointment particularly for the beginners new to the exhibition game.

The last two classes in any schedule for a show granted the patronage of the Budgerigar Society read "ANY OTHER COLOUR COCK and ANY OTHER COLOUR HEN" and an entry into either of these means that a bird must be VISUALLY of a description that is different to any of the bird that is described in the preceding classes.

With the recent addition of separate challenge certificates for yellow faces and spangles I feel sure there will be any increase in the any other colour classes despite the fact that many of the entries in these classes are much more difficult to produce up to the standard of the ideal, the challenge of combining together the right birds from some of the preceding classes to produce a first class specimen of the Opaline clearwing, a Clearwing Cinnamon white or Yellow suffused, a normal or Opaline Greywing or a Lacewing, all very beautiful in their own right, why not accept this challenge, increase the numbers bred and exhibited and find that it is possible to win C.C.'s with these sort of colours and varieties, who knows, it may not be too long before some of them are more numerous and that a further extension of the number of C.C.'s available will have to receive very serious consideration.

With this hoped for increase in the numbers of A.O.C. class entries it should also be hoped that both judges and exhibitors alike will make the effort to increase their knowledge and the ability to recognise and describe what they can actually see in all the composite and rare varieties, the so space on a challenge certificate for the description of the colour and variety of the winner requires the correct words and whenever my partner and I win one, or award one, the initials A.O.C. will never be good enough.