Identifier: birdnotes04fore (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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mart relations, whotake a daily and sometimes twice daily bath. I have a lovely Red-headed Gouldian. He is a mourningwidower, for his wife died lately, and though he shewedabsolutely no affection for the deceased lady during her life,man-like he now regrets her and is moping, so I am goingto provide him with another wife, this time a red head.The poor deceased was black, and perhaps he will like auburnhair better than the darker shade. Now we come to three lonely Bullies, all tame and all verybrightly clothed in scarlet waistcoats. I give them grass seedand maw in addition to German rape and canary. When let outthey all go to the same bath and fight, and one always wins,so his name is Cceur de Lion. A pair of hand-reared Chaffinches finishes the present lot.They are jolly little birds and are called Tariu and* Tarinne, quite tame but vicious to all other birds. I will write more later as I have many birds on order. E. Warren Vernon. BIRD NOTES ^^^: ..A J. G. Keulemans del. et lith ^ %
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Wesb .TNTevTHicLii imp. SUPERB TATxTAGER.Calliste fsustosa,. All righls tesetvedy (FEBRUARY, 1907. BIRD NOTES: THE JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CEUB. ^be Superb Ztanager. Calliste fastosa.By C. CASTLE-Sr.OANE, F.Z.S. This gorgeously - feathered Tanager makes adelightful cage bird if kept in a fairly large cage,soon becoming very tame. He is not much of asongster, but makes up for it in the extraordinarybeaut)^ of his plumage. The one I possessed soonbecame familiar with me, and would come to the doorof the cage with a chirp and a flit of his tail, as muchas to say What are you going to give me to-day? :he would take mealworms from the hand, and afterswallowing one or two would hold the next one in hisbeak, uttering short chirps of delight and flitting fromperch to perch, then, swallowing it, would dart downfor another, going through the same performance.His other food consisted of banana, orange, dried flies,ant eggs and powdered biscuit in equal proportions,which he appeared to thorou

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