Identifier: birdnotes63fore (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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and Golden-breasted Waxbills ; Thave found the greatest difficuUy in getting them to eat anything inthe green-food \va\-. I keep mine in cages during the winter, in an unheatedroom; they have done very well, and I have at last found some green-foodwhich they will eat—that is the stringy roots of watercress; they ignoreth,. green leaves. Also they will peck at dandelion leaves that are growingin small pots, but they wont touch it if it is a loose leaf; I have tried themwith flowering grass, all kinds of fruit, and various insect foods as a slightaddition to the usual millet menu, but they never touch it. I dont know if other members have found the same thing, but my birds arc distinctly conservative in their tastes. East Putney, S. W. ; March 19, 1923. A. II. BARNES. (They will take flowering and seeding grass if growing in small pots, or if cut as a small turf too heavy for them to drag about—at least, such waxbills and avadavats as I keep caged in winter do so.—W.T.P.) Bird Notes.
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A. M. Cook. Cherry Finches and Nest. All Rights Reserved. May and June, 1923 BIRD NOTES. THE Journal of the Foreign Bird Club. Some Finches I have kept. By Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S.. M.B.O.U.(Continued from page ^J). Cherry Finch (Aide)nosyne modesta). This species hasbeen known to aviculture for many, many years, but even during-the period when there were no restrictions to the importationol AustraHan birds, it was neither plentiful nor regular in its appearance on the English bird market. A few have recently appeared, so these reminiscent notes will not be inappropriate. It belongs to the same genus as the African and Indian Silverbills, and is very similar to them in form and general characteristics and also in the form and character of its nest,though it is not easy to persuade either species of Silverbill to build a natural nest in a tree or bush in captivity, for they almost invariably choose a Hartz travelling cage as a nest site.The Cherry Finch on the other hand, with me, has always ch

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