Bird notes

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Identifier: birdnotesns08fore (find matches)
Title: Bird notes
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Foreign Bird Club National British Bird and Mule Club
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Great Britain Periodicals
Publisher: Brighton : Foreign Bird Club : National British Bird and Mule Club
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ggs, for these ))ast fewda s. .She keeps in beautiful plumage and condition, is very gentle and in-telligent. .lv (ire Wa.xbill still Hourishes and is now on its fourth year of cagelife. I ;ini h;ippily placed here as regards feathereil life-—one sees the Heron,Snipe, Owls. ;ind manv feathered \;irblers : the voices of the green Wood-pecker, \r cclilton. June ist, 1917. J. WEIR. British Bird Calendar. April 25.—Saw Fieldfares..May 2. - ,, Winchats. 7.— .. Blackcap and Nightjar.S.— ,, Turtle Dove and Sedge Warbler.18.— ,. Red hacked Shrike. IQ.— ,, Young tjrey Wagtails about a week old.J2.— .. . Shrikes nest containing four egfgs. Have met with all the migrants now. but the above interested me mostJ.S.R., Caterham, Surrey, May 23, 1917.
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;^ Ml rights reserved.) (July, 1917. BIRD NOTES: THE JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGIST BIRD CLUB. The Nesting of the White-cheehed Finch-Larh. By W. Shore Baily. Pyrrliulauda Jeitcotis is a pretty, and fairly freely importedAfrican bird, but, as far as I know, tliey have not previouslyreared yonnLi- in this country. My pair. althou,£^h they hadnested with their former owner, Or. M. Amsler, made noattem))t to do so in my aviaries last year: this year they havebehaved better. Early in May I noticed the cock chasing the hen. a suresign that tliey were tliinking of housekeeping, so on Sundayafternoon. May 6th, I planted a seat near the entrance to theiraviary and settled myself comfortably to watch them with a viewto locating the nest. Both birds seemed very uneasy and severaltimes came flying in my direction. At one time the hen hadher beak full of dry grass, but after watching theni for morethan an hour I quite failed to obtain any idea of the whereaboutsof the nest. The aviary is a large one.

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