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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resident and gregarious in the Argentine Republic, and in autumn frequently congre-■ gates in flocks of several thousands. They are not so universally■■ distributed as the Chin.golo, and are not wood birds, but frequent open■■ )ilains abounding in thistles and other coarse herbage, which affords them■ shelter. In (ultivated districts where their food is most abundant, they are exccssi\cly numerous, and after the harvest has been gathered frec(uent the fields in immense flocks. While feetling the flocks scatter■ over a large area of ground, being broken u)i into small companies of a dozen or more birds, rmd at such times are so intent on their food that a■ person can walk about amongst them without disturbing them. Thev take flight very suddenly, bursting into a thousand chirping, scolding notes, pur.sue each other through the air, and then wneeling about for a minute or two, suddenly drop down into the grass again, and are as silent as ever. O)CD& s CDOS P CD Ca ta
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>^ Notes on Rcd-shiniug Parrakccfs. i8i The nest is well built, deep and well concealed, sometimes restingon the ground, but frequently raised above it. It contains five long,pointed eggs, with ;i white or bluish-white ground colour, and thicklyspotted with brown. I have frequently found the eggs of the Molothrus in its nest, but have never been able to see this bird feeuing or followedby a young Molothrus. PossiI)ly if it ever hatches this parasiticalegg at all, the young Cowbird s st:ir\ed by the delicate food supplied byits foster-parents. Some Notes on Red-shining Parraheets. By the M.arquis of Tavistock. Tlie Fijian Parrakeets of the small geniis Pyrrhulopsisare very rare, nowadays, in the foreign bird trade; indeed Ihave never seen a newly-imported specimen offered by anEnglish dealer, other than the late Mr. Cotton, of Sheffield.Conseqitently, nearh^ all 1 have had have come to me throughprivate channels. The three best-known Pyrrhulopsis are the Red-shining, theTabuan and t

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