Identifier: birdnotes03fore (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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ones, but I am sorry to say they only lived afew days. The Golden-breasted Waxbills also built in a cocoa-nuthusk, and have got two 3ouug ones nearly ready to fly. I hopenext month to be able to tell you that they are flying aboutand feeding themselves. I have also Orange Cheeks that are raising my hopes—theyhave built in a small travelling cage on the ground, and havegot eggs, but I am almost afraid it is too late in the season forsuccess in rearing, Henry Dart. THE PIN-TAILED WHYDAH. I have a male of this species which I bought in the autumnof 1894. It was then apparently a young bird, and its tailwas shorter than in subsequent seasons. Each summer sincethen, until the present year, it has come into perfect plumage—but this year the long tail has failed to grow, although theusual change of colour has taken place in the plumage. Thebird is now manifestly aged, and somewhat decrepit, and hasprobably passed the natural limit of life in the species. Horatio R. Fii.t,mer. BIRD NOTES.
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