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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black heads; they have nowassumed rich yellow heads, and would not be taken to be thesame birds as their parents. Two others that I have hadindoors all winter, as they were not in good condition, are stillin the mottled black and yellow stage of colour. I am hopingthat these will prove to be hens, so that I n.ay have a chanceof breeding the variety. No doubt the yellow colour on thesebirds will turn to scarlet as they get older. Another bird thnhas been in full song for some time is my African GroundThrush (Geocichla liisibslrupa). The song is not very loud,nor is it so sweet as that of our English bird. 1 have two ofthese birds—I hope a pair, but as they were always quarrellingI had to se))arate them. It is strange that with all the Turdidacthis fighting between the sexes and each other seems to be acommon characteristic. T had a couple of hen Ring Ouzels ina very large aviaiy, but in spite of the space thev were alwavsquarrelling, and as one kept the other away from the feeding tc
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CdI—I a ots Early Stray Xotcs. 29 dishes I had to separate them. The one left now spends mucliof its time fighting with a hen Mistle Thrush, and they haveroyal battles, but the worst of it is they do not confine theirattacks to their own species or each other, but do not hesitateto Hy at such large birds as Satyra Pheasants, which, as wellas the waders, they easily drive away from the feeding dishes.My African Olivaceous Thrush, which was singing very nicelyin November, much to the astonishment of the commonthrushes round about, which used to come and sit on the topof the aviary to listen to him. is now silent, and I think that hehas got a touch of liver; the Bobolinks have been singing ver\nicely the last few days. I am hoping to get nests from allthese birds this coming season, and, as I believe none of themhave yet been bred in this country, I hope to have something towrite about for publication in B.N. With regard to the season now past. I think that I havegiven our readers a fa

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