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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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Other noticeable warblers are a bird very like a White-
throat and a joUy little with a long tail, probably
Prima socilis, which builds a nest much like that of the
Tailor-bird. Neither of these two seem to go much above
4,500 in summer, wintering lower.
I nearly forgot the Indian Tailor-bird (Orthofomus
sartorius) but propose to say little about it, as it is a much-
written-about bird. One stayed about our bungalow all last
winter (J910-11), 4500 ft. I have never noted one so high up
in winter before, indeed it goes little if any higher in summer.
.This bird kept on catching itself in a net I put in the ver-
andah to keep down the Sparrows and finally I thought I would
try to keep it for Mr. Kennedy. It meated itself off at once,
which was hardly surprising, as I fancy it had been living
for some time past on scraps of insect food, snaffled from the
verandah table where the food was made up. It might have
been in a cage all its life judging from the way it settled
down, almost steady enough to exhibit from the start, a charm-
BIRD NOTES.
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From Life.
Princess Stephanie's Bird of Paradise (Astrachie stephania).

The Aviaries and Birds at Hoddam Castle. 233

ing pet. It was purely insectivorous, and most specimens I
fancy would prove difficult to meat off. It is a jolly perky
bird of modest colour with a note and a tail several sizes too
large for its diminutive body. As will be seen from the
above they can stand a considerable amount of cold; they could
easily be wintered out at home provided their abode afforded
them crannies to shelter in at night.
(To he continued).

The Aviaries and Birds at Hoddam Castle.
By Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S., Etc.
Continued from page 195.
Owing to Mr. Brook being in Norway it was not
possible to get the accompanying drawings by Mr. H.
Grömvold, which Mr. Brook kindly permits us to reproduce,
ready for last issue, therefore, I propose indulging in a few
additional remarks on these species, and to leave the LORRIDDÆ,
etc., for another instalment. We thus have the privilege of
figuring three species

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