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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than enter them. In the smaller aviaries wecatch them up with a hand net, and not always withoutcasualties. October ^t;/.—Cuba lynches (J\ canora) sitting againIt was very late but T gave her a chance. October ^^th.—Young Ca))e Sparrows (f\ arciiatits) leftnest, but the early mornings were very cold, and they did notlong stuvive. October 12th.—Pope Cardinals (/. larvata) laid again—eggs removed. October lOtli.—Cuba Ilnch (/. canora) hatclied out. October 20th.—Lilac-crowned Fruit-Pigeon sick. In SI,ite of every care it died ten days later from ))neumonia. Wchad a Aery hea\y frost, following a wet night, and this provedtoo much for the hen, although the cock was not affected.These birds would always roost oittside, unless at roosting timethe weather was very wild and wet. October :;otIi.—Iook Cuba Finches and their yotingiiiside. \erv nice little l)irds. 1 had a cock wliicli lived 7^ years in my avia^y jt ^^ was an exception ;its male died nine months after arrival.—Ed.
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S3 oo Notes 0)1 Jungle and Other Wild Life. 255 Notes on Jungle and other Wild Life. By Dr. Casey A. Wood, M.B.O.U.(Continued from (ogc 218). It is, of course, a yreat temptation to talk about thewonderful orehids of the Guiatws, but who am I to discuss, even• n the haphazard fashion of this informal letter a subject thathas been treated many times by a dozen competent botanists ?For example. Rodway (Timchru Xo\. VIII., 1894, p. 1-270)nearly thirty years ago described in his interesting fashionabout 300 varieties. Since that date possibly a hundred new species have beenidentified and described. ()f these 400 species I have seen in thejungle, botanic t^ardens and elsewhere, about 50 varieties inbloom and 100 more flowerless; and have owned and becomesomewhat familiar with about thirty species. So you perceivehow experienced an orchidist I am! However, I happen toknow that few South American orchids are easily collected, andhow many of them love to blush and bloom near the top of agia

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