Identifier: birdnotes53fore (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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s to o hen Blachcan became quite expert at suatchini; the worms fromthe beak of the Plover; the latter would take these from myhands and would keep the ^ame up as long as T cared to handthem out. I am afraid that I wasted much time in this particular aviary. Earix Stray Notes. 31 Amongst other birds that nested was my Mistle Thrush.It built a typical nest and laid four eggs, which were, of course,infertile, as 1 had no male. Another English bird to nest wasa Brambling; here again full success was not obtained. Irmade rather a neat nest in a thorn bush and laid four pretty
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N//, lUiilij. Phuto hi/Nest and. Egi,s of Brumhle Iincli. eggs. One pair of my Snow Buntings built a nest but no eggswere laid; I am hoping for better luck with them this season.Bad luck pursued my Californian Quail; about twenty chicks 32 Budi^crigars Ircnch Moult. were hatched in two l)i-ood.s. but none were fully reared, and 1rather think that a change of blood is necessary. No luckwas met with amont^st the Pheasants, which are kept in theaviaries with the small birds, the only youni^ reared being twoSatyras, one Cabots. and one Crossoptilon. Jhe Waterfowlwere very little better, six Upland (reese and 16 Chili Wigeonbeing the only ones reard, so we have not greatly increasedthe inhabitants of the Boyers House aviaries in 1921. ——^^ Budgerigars, French Moult, and ContinentalMethods of Breeding. By Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. This article (largely a compilation) is inspired mainly by ->letter received from Mr. J. W. Marsden, and a translation (partsof which I am quoting h

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