Identifier: birdnotes23fore (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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ow. Another bird that was quite common was the Blue andBlack Yucatan Jay. They were expensive when they firstarrived, but the price finally got down very low, and I sold thepair I had for $6. as they were making life miserable to the otherinhabitants. I purchased a Guatemalian Jay about the sametime. It was a beautiful bird, but died a short time ago, whileapparently in good health. A bird that used to be common in our markets, but now isapparently not imported, is the Greater Hill Minah. I fancythey came too fast for the dealers to make a reasonable profitand owing to the poor returns gradually got back to India. Iwish they would start bringing them again, as I would like toget some. However, I am beginning to feel that there is moresatisfaction in raising a few birds than in trying to have a largevariety, and am inclined to reduce my stock to those kinds thatthere is a reasonable expectation of raising and keeping inhealth. I know it is hard to resist the temptations to purchase 53O
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A^iary A^oics from the United States. 7 if one happens to discover some new species, and the inclinationto visit tlie l)ird stores in the hope that they may have somethingnew is one of the principal incenti\es to keeping birds. T imagine in our Zoological Park here we have one of thebest collections in the world, though they lose a great many, asI he bLiilding is designed solely to afford the pul)lic a good viewof the birds and with little regard for their health. They feedtheni careftdly enough, but they lack fresh air and the change o;scene that they have in an aviary that allows them to fly outsideand in for at least seven months of the year. If I was buildingit. I would build for the birds and not for the jniblic. Mine arestill flying outdoors if they wish to, though the most of themcome in at night. T ha\e yet to find that the cold ever killed oneof the parrot family, though I have lost a number of SouthAmerican Tanagers and such birds as the Long-tailed IndianDrongo in the fall

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