Identifier: birdnotesns08fore (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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s is easy to breed and while this is quite true,it is such a nervous little bird, usually leaving its eggs as soonas anyone enters the aviary or passes near it outside the aviary,consequently very few young have been reared by aviculturistsin tliis country; also its liability to egg-binding in damp chillyweather renders the prospect of successfully rearing youngeven more remote. I have found in my aviary that though itmostly adheres to its wild habits, and either makes its nest amidground herbage, or in a low bush—the nest figured on ourplate was placed in a small leaved Berberis eighteen inches abovethe ground, nevertheless there are exceptions to this rule, andthis season two nests have been constructed in my aviary, amidwild convolvulus, six feet above the ground, but alas! thoughat least six nests have been built no young have been reared.The pair figured on our plate nested within a fortnight of arrival,but the hen died with her fourth egg. The other pair have been Bird Notes.
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Cherry Finches and Nest. The Cherry Finch. 207 nesting- on and off the whole season. Two cocks and one hen are still aHve and thriving, andmostly show themselves whenever the aviary is visited or passed. Beyond snapping up an occasional insect, and eatingfreely of the growing herbage in the aviary, their diet with meis an entirely seed one. Mr. J. Cronkshaw was the first to rear this species in thiscountry (1895), when one young bird was fully reared. Sincethe initial success other aviculturists have been successful inbreeding the Cherry Finch, but, though easy to breed it certainlyis not a prolific species in captivity. My readers must not infer from the above that the speciesis a delicate one, quite the reverse, but like many other speciesof hardy birds, the hens cannot stand cold wet periods at thetime of egg laying. Much more might be said of their mannerisms at variousperiods of the year, but space and paper are precious in thesetimes; moreover I do not desire to exhaust the subj

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