Identifier: birdnotesns02fore (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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umpicd Sunbied. (A. C. Young, Newcastle-on-/Tyne). This bird was very much emaciated and died from theeffects of pneumonia. Cordon Bleu (cf). (John Sherard Beeves, Leadenliam, Ho.,Lincolnshire). Cause of death, pneumonia. CoKDON Bleu, (cf) (Mrs. Jack, Sidcup). Cause of death,apoplexy. Waxbill. (J. Wallan, Alnwick). Cause of death, fits. Waxbill. (Rev. J. A. T. L. Beazor, South Lines.) Causeof death, jaundie. Dant expose such Irirds to drauglu in openwindov/. Waxbill. (Miss M. Greeven, Hyde Park, W.) Cause ofdeath, fits. Paeson Finch. (Sydney Whitmore, Pemberton Ho., DoughtyStreet, W.C.) Cause of death, pneumonia. Canary and Cut-tiiroat. (Lady Webster, Battle, Sussex).Both birds died from pneumonia. Pexkant Pakrakeet (9;. (Wm. Shoi^ Baily, Westbury,Y\iits.) The cause of death was pneumonia. The wing had beenfractured some time or the other. The joint w:is; ankylosed orstifi. Ansioered hy ))ost:—Eichard Bright, Lady Katlileen Pilkington,L. L, Southcombe, H. Snarey. H. GRAY, M.R.C.V.S.
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All Bights Reserved. DwEMiTsu, 1911, BIRD NOTES: THE JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. The L.G.B.A. Show. By Wksley T. Page, F.Z.S. The Foreign and British sections were a huge successbotli as regards conditions, rarity, and numbers. The ForeignSection being especially well represented, though the Parrotand Lory section was not so strong as usual; the entry inthe class for common species being a record one, viz., 23,with only one absentee. I am not attempting a report inthis issue, just merely a mention of some of the more notableexhibits, as a full report will appear in next issue. One of the rarest birds in the show I take to be Mr.Townsends Palish Blue Sugarbird, which is either Dacnisnigripes or D. angelica, I rather think the latter, owing toits small size, though the catalogue description of nigripes,is the closer of the two to Mr. Townsends bird, the latter,however, is certainly much smaller than the well known D.cay ana. Comparatively speaking it appears fully one thirdsmaller

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