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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six pairs, and had in additiontwo abortive attempts, one at each end of the .seauon. Theirsoft colouring is exquisite, and the display of the male is mostinteresting, while their coo is almost musical; I can stronglyrecommend them to my readers as a most pleasing species tokeep, being beautiful, minute and amiable to all but their ownkind. I will first note those that have bred or made attemptsto do so, merely naming other kinds or I shall weary withundue length. The Indian Silverbill (Aidemosynemalabarica)nested and successfully reared one young, which was on thewing by end of March and still lives ; several other abortiveattempts have been made; in each case they chose a nest box,several appear in Plate III.; and they have made no attemptsto build in the branches; on each occasion the box chosen was
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as cS . r- ti0/)— CQbioCOS -d = o ft . o 292 hanging in the open portion of the aviary. I had only oneAfrican Silverbill which paired np with a Pectoral Finch, butthough several clutches were laid, none hatched out, and dur-ing one of the cold spells the Pectoral ( ? ) died egg-bound.Red-headed Finches (Amadina erythrocephala) laid severalclutches and incubated closely but without any result; themale died from tumour over the eye, and the hen, as alreadyrecor-ded in Bird Notes, paired up with a Cutthroat and hatchedout one 3^oung hybrid which unfortunately got drowned twodays after leaving the nest. Of the doings of Zebra Finchesand Java Sparrows I need give no account, the number ofyoung reared being far below the average. Yellow-rumpedFinches (Munia flaviprymiiia) have laid, but appear very poorsitters and from two clutches of eggs there has beeu no result.Of Mannikins at present I only possess the Bionze-wing andMagpie, odd birds of eacli, which paired and after severalabortive a

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