Identifier: birdnotes07fore (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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ry con-sisted of a shed about 12 x 6 and flight 12 x 18 ft. In this aviary I kept avery mixed lot of birds, mostly finches, and here I succeeded in breedingZebra Finches, Cutthroats, Diamond Doves (ten from one pair) and Red-billed Weavers. This Spring, 1908 (the bird fever becoming more acute), I decided tobuild a sort of wilderness aviary, for finches, cardinals, etc. I first chose anice sheltered piece of ground about 51 feet square, levelled and turfed, andplanted it with shrubs, but owing to my late start, it was too late in theyear for me to have any large trees moved, and so I had preforce to be con-tent with those grown in large pots. This fall, however, I have planted this aviary with well grown treesand shrubs, including the following, Portugal Laurels, Box, Bamboo,Variegated Pampas Grass, Spruce, Lupin Tree, Douglassi, Fir, Veronica,Cupressus, and Flowering Currant Bushes ; and also trees that my gardenercalls Marsh Mallow, but I do not know if this is the correct name, the
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