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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ttack of pneumonia. I his Spring the London Zoo offered me another pair,and I was very glad to get them. They were extraordinarilywild, and, on being turned into the aviary, in which there was agood deal of cover, they promptly disappeared, and it was onlyoccasionally that I caught a glimpse of them for a moment. About the middle of June I felt sure that the hen wassitting, and a careful search revealed the nest, which was verywell hidden in a clump of grass. This contained seven eggs,somewhat smaller than those of the Californian Quail, and verylarge for the bird. These were covered with fine spots, and Ihave occasionally seen those of the Californian bird markedvery like them. (Jn June J4th I surprised the hen with three young ones,apparently about a couple of days old. The four eggs left inthe nest had all young ones just ready to hatch; something hadprobably disturbed the hen, causing her to leave the nest toosoon. I saw no more of either the young ones or their pairents !X O ^ CS
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■z) 5?: Notes on Jungle and Other Jlild Life. 193 until Inly 2nd, when T surprised them together scratching inthe run. I again saw them a week later, and again on the 15th;on the last occasion they got up at my feet and flew stronglyacross the aviary. Shortly after this I went for my summerholiday, returning for one day on August loth. Suspectingthat the hen was again sitting, I was hunting- through the longgrass, when I had the misfortune to step upon and kill theyoung cock. He was practically in full adult plumage, and Icould only tell him from the old bird by the difference in thecolour of the eye, which in the adult is crimson, and in thejuvenile reddish-brown. At this time the hen was undoubtedly sitting, although1 could not find the nest in the time at my disposal, but on myreturn on August 21st, I found it under a tuft of grass on theedge of the pond, and congratulated myself on not havingstepped on it, when looking for it on my first visit. Everyegg had apparently hatched, a

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