Identifier: birdnotes07fore (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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iedsteely and bronzy reflections. Our member is certainly to be congratulated 011 such,acquisitions. W. T. P. post flDortem IReports. (Vide Rules). For replies by post, a fee of 2/6 must be sent ; this regulation will not be broken under anv conditions. Cock Parrot Finch. (Dr. J. Eastern Scott). Cause of death, jaundiceand pneumonia. Male Green BILLED Toucan. (F. C. Thorpe). Cause of death, the septicfever of Drs. Clarke and Creswell. The liver was enlarged and con-tained innumerable small yellowish nodular-looking spots. The spleenwas enlarged and rounded and crammed with minute whitish points;kidneys enlarged, lungs acutely congested. Three young Rufous-Tail Finches. (H. W. Mathias). The cause ofdeath ill every instance was acute hemorrhagic enteritis and jaundice. COCK Bullfinch. (Henry Robbins), Cause of death acute enteritis. Therewas extensive blood extravasation into the thickness of the cranialbones. Answered by post: H. W. Mathias. Henry Gray, M.R.C.V.S. (Continued in Inset).
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3* All rights reserved.) (February, 1909. BIRD NOTES: THE JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. £be IFMgbtjar in Captivity). (Caprimiilgns europa^ua).By P. F. M. Gai,i,owav. This species is one of the quaintest of our native birds ami also oneof the most interesting and in captivity is very uncommon, yet properlymanaged it soon becomes very tame. The Nightjar is one of those birds that must be taken young andreared by hand, if it is ever to become really tame in a cage ; for if caughtwhen adult and caged, within about a month there would be but few feathersleft on its body, and the bird a miserable object to look upon; even if itlived so long, which I am much inclined to doubt. The feathers, especially those on the breast and back, seem to hangiu the skin quite loosely, so that if the bird is handled audit should strugglethe feathers fall out as fast as they do from a Wood Pigeon under similarconditions. The whole plumage is very soft and downy, of somewhat sombre hue,yet there is someth

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