Identifier: birdnotesns04fore (
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Bird notesYear:
1902 (
1900s)Authors:
Foreign Bird Club National British Bird and Mule ClubSubjects:
Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Great Britain PeriodicalsPublisher:
Brighton : Foreign Bird Club : National British Bird and Mule ClubContributing Library:
American Museum of Natural History LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:
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view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:e males, and this suppositionturned out to be correct. I had doubts at first, however, be-cause one of these males had on its neck some tiny patchesof red-brown which is seen in the adult hen, and the othermale had a few specks of the same colour on its head. Tretained one pair, and the Oher pair was promptly securedfor the Zoo. T put my pair in a ca^e in a warm aviary and wasglad to see that thov partook freely of all the usual seedssuch as canary, milh^t, jxiddy rice, wheat, oats, hemp andmonkey nuts. Tliey would also oat dried fg^ and prunes, andlater on would eagerly take such ripe fruit as plums, pears,cherries, and bananas. T was i-ather suiprised at this as theBlue-rumped Parrots mentioned by Dr. Euss took chieflyhemp, ofcanary seed, millet, and cooked rice only a few grains.while fruit they never touched. Tn May. 1912, my hen moulted into adult plumage,but the male did not do so till July. This year they haveagain moulted and they seem to have grown considerably in Bird Notes.Text Appearing After Image:Top //V///yv—Ht(l-lit-a(lf(l Iir. Middle ji(iare—Avi^ Streaked Spi.lcr-Hmite Bottom figure—Larger Hed-headetl Crow-Tit. The Bhic-rumpcd Parrot. 120 size. At tinios they aic li" https://beta-repo.eol.org/data/media/e4/05/19/509.c3422f6394335c3028eab7105bceb8a8 2022-03-28 20:31:38 2022-03-28 20:31:38 https://beta-repo.eol.org/data/media/e4/05/19/509.c3422f6394335c3028eab7105bceb8a8.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bird_notes_(1913)_(14749736322).jpg 410 45517649 16728506
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edit] Description: Streaked Spiderhunter - piercing base of hibiscus flower to get at nectar For id picture see:
www.flickr.com/photos/lipkee/3503736921 Arachnothera magna ssp Arachnothera magna magna Fraser's Hill, Malaysia 2nd. May 2009 Distribution:
avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&id=DFA75C00E3.. 690V5389. Date: 2 May 2009, 17:57. Source:
Streaked Spiderhunter (Arachnothera magna) - feeding. Author:
Lip Kee Yap from Singapore, Republic of Singapore.