Identifier: birdnotesns04fore (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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That this Swallow breeding in the far west of Europe shouldhave rear.hed so far to the south-p^s^ of Africa as Natal, seems to meextraordinary. Unfortunately the few records we have as yet of ringedSwallows recovered during migration do not afford a clue to the routestaken, and it seems to me unreasonable to suppose that our birdsproceed southwards down the east side of Africa, as m!ght be in-ferred from this Natal record. It is, indeed, quite impossible to theorize on a single recoveryof this kind and we must be content at present with the bare fact—perhaps the most sartline: fact that the ringing of birds has as yetproduced. We are most thankful to Mr. Ruddock for reporting thisextremely interesting recovery and we hope that the details of it willbecome widely known in South .Africa and thus produce further results. H. P. WlTHEEBY. Post Mortem Reports See Rules on page iii. of cover. None to hand at time of goincf to presi^, ifin time ivill be inehufed in Green Page In-set.—Ed.
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All rifjhti reserved. ArniL, 1913. BIRD NOTES: THE JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB Fairy Blue-Birds (Trenn). By Wesi.ky T. Pagk, F.Z.S., ktc. All the ,s))ccie,s of Irena are called Fairy Blue Biids,aiul I think all should bo given a distinctive name, the titleThe Fairy Blue Bird, all. I think, will agree should go toIrom piielJa, and I have .suggested for general use namesfor the other species in the following notes, which cannotbo entirely descriptive. The colouration of Irena is similarthrough all the species, but with one or two exceptions thearrangement of the colour areas varies sufficiently to allowof the species being picked out fairly readily. The varyinglength of the tail-coverts is also distinctive in most of thespecies. The genus has a fairly wide range, viz., Ind. Penins.,Indo-Chinese countries, Malayan Penins.; Java, Sumatra,Borneo, and the Philippine Islands. The key to species given below is compiled fromVol. III. of the British Museum Catalogue. It should proveof gene

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