Identifier: birdnotes06fore (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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brought off joung (of course I mean the ones that tried to breed). However I have Javas in another aviary, sodo not mind much, though this sounds brutal. I fancy Ouzels, etc., are rather unsafe with nestlings; at Kajiar I found my first Tickells (real ones they were, I caught the hen later) nest b\ watching the old ones beat off a pair of Red-headed Laughing Thrushes. I should never have found the nest otherwise though they had 3ouug, the old ones* were awfully cautious and the nest as usual was quite invis-* ible except from just above (in the tree itself). The Red- heads were evidently enemies to be feared and were most persistent, I watched them for quite an hour, and how long Bird Notes.
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CUTTHROAT X RED-HEADED FINCH HYBRID. (Amadifia fasciata x A. eiylhrocephala). 28r they had been going on before I came and how long they would have gone on if undisturbed by me, I do not know. However they did not return to the attack later, they may have thought I took the young at once as a Langur (probably I was a new sort of monkey to them) would have done. They watched me while I was in the tree (I could not even in the tree, and the place well-marked, at first find the nest, the cutest I think I have come across, in thick ivy with ivy above) I did not see them again after coming down;* though I watched for some time again both to identify the tree (I did not take the Tickells young for some days and then only under the impression, till I caught the hen, that they were G. W. Ouzels, and there was certainh a cock G.W. knocking about in the fight with the Redheads, likewise another Laughing Thrush—not identified at first sight—not unlike Black-throated Jay but smaller and an un

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