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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e cock callin^a good deal, but we did not see them for several months, andhad, in fact, given them up for dead, when one day, whilstlooking for a finchs nest, I flushed the hen and one young oneabout half-grown. T dont know^ whether more were hatched,but we never saw them, nor did a diligent search reveal theeggshells or nest. The young Ouail is now indistinguishabi ^from its parents, and has wintered out without any shelterwhatever. In a near-by aviary a cock common quail with a henAfrican quail did not nest, but I am inclined to think that thiswas to some extent due to the interference of my little Tem-mincks Courser. This charming little bird made violent)ove first to the South African hen, and afterwards, when thecock Egyptian was turned down, to the latter; it was extremelvamusing to watch these birds take mealworms from the bill of 30 Earlv Stray Notes. tlie little Plover. The (Jiiail would always come at his call.l)iU thev did not always i-et the worm, as a little, self-cauLiht
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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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