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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ey differin form and deportment from the more in evidence Britishspecies. There were other Rails (Water-Hens) in the aviary, but 1only caught a momentary glim):)se of the White-breasted Water-Hen (an Indian species which, T think, Mr. Shore Baily gotfrom me): they had an ample cover, and appeared and disap-peared as easily as does the English Moorhen at home on itsn.ative heath. T have no note of the other species, as I onlylisted what T saw. Even now Ive not described that streamlet running theentire length of the aviary, save to state where it began andran to. It was a rtmning length of open and cover on oneside the streamlet or the other: here a small cltnnii of willows,their leaves flicking the sitrface of the stream (not much waterthere though), there a bunch of reed, now a series of flags, andwater dock does the needful, both for picturesque effect andl^iactical purpose. The birds certainly did wade and bathe here,pa;:serines as well as waders—what a foraging ground it was for
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lisils to Members Aiiaries. ::6^ ;ill of ihem. and what an amount of meaty food they i^ained there-from my eyes had abundant evidence. In this, thoui^h a waders aviary. Misto Seed-finches.Grey-headed Sparrows. Twites, Quail, etc.. have nested andsuccessfully reared their youn.L;-. I)ut. so far as the writer isaware none of tlie waders have nested up to the present- -undoubtedly this is a pleasant experience for the future, for,with such accommodation, it is sure to come. It is beyond me to describe the internal natural lieautyof this aviary, but the photo-rejjroduction will .i;ive some ideaof ))art of it—it would need at least half a dozen photos toeflectively H£iure the whole, and these would reqture to be incolour if they were to tell the whole story. The Lakk : A nice photo of this ))icturesque piece ofwater appeared in a back vol. of P>iri) Xotks, when it was wellstocked; now it is very different; the beauty of the spot remains,but the fine wealth of water-fowl is no more, f

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