Identifier: birdnotes06fore (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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/ 9rtiir^## All rights reserved.) (JANUARY, 1908. BIRD NOTES: THE JOURNAI, OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. nD\) Hviaries anb their Sinnatee in 1907- By Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S. This record must open with an apology for inflicting moreof my own composition, but memljers have evidently forgottenthat there is a January issue of Bud Notes, so this is written:against time to meet the emergency. The Aviary : Plate I., is not as it was in 1907 but severalyears ago, when its inmates were less in number and less varied■in kind, consisting mainly of Waxbillsand the smaller Finches;now their number and variety have increased, all the growthlias disappeared, the onl\ greenery the birds will permit togrow is rape, oats, wheat, etc. A detailed description is not•called for, as the photos and the ground plan fully describethis: briefly, its area is about 25ft. x 12ft. x 8ft. high, with alean-to shed at back, the shed being entirely open at front. No•design was attempted, the object being to enclose a

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