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 fit, and specially interesting to watch ashe slipped up and down the branches, going anywhere andeverywhere but to the nest while you were watching, and it wasthe same with the hen. The records for 1905, 6, 7 and 8 are as follows : —Species partly bred (i.e. nest and eggs . 56Bred and fully reared .... 36Bred for first time in United Kingdom . 12 I hope that, later, Mr. Teschemaker will supplement thisvery indifferent account, with a paper from his pen, illustratedwith diagrams, and also place on record in our pages much in-teresting data, connected with the various notes so brokenlypassed in review herein. I can only in conclusion again expressthe hope that where the pen has failed the few photos here re-produced may succeed in indicating what a practical and well-arranged series of aviaries Mr. Teschemaker possesses, and toexpress the hope that much greater success may attend his effortsto breed new and rare species in the future than has been thecase in the past. 157 EDitorial
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