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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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2 feet high, the elder, hawthorn and hazel referred to had tobe topped, and have spreading branches extending 8 feet insidethe aviary, besides which there is an apple and several larchtrees, whose top shoots are already through the netting of topof flight, and that the docks, mallow, cowparsley and meadowgrasses have supplied the species confined herein with anabundance of wild seeds and insect life. In this same aviary there are living together in amitywith the little Zosterops and each other generally, the follow-ing species : — 230 The NcHthig ((f the TuduDi Whitcfye. Pairs : Streaked Laugliing Thrushes; Snow Eunfings; Black,Bkie, and Archlushop Tanagers; Jaearini, Grey andGuttural Finches; Oi^ang-e-cheek, Grey, and G olden-lireasted Waxhills; Silky Gowliirds; Green Singing,Long-tailed Grass, Zelsra and Ribbon Pinches; BronzeMannikins ; Paradise Whydahs ; with odd s;iecimens ofDoves, Maroon Tanager, Cape Canary, Grey-headedOuzels, Rufous-throated Blue Sugarbirds, and a fewothers.
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Birds in and about the Sfatio?i. 231 KEY TO THE GROUND PLAN.J.—Greenhouse Birclroom 10ft. x 10ft.Ad and J.c—Biixlroom Flights, 10ft. x 4ft. x 7ft. high..-!&—Concrete Pinth, with entrance doors, to Birdrcom at 6 and to Aviary at F.B—Shelter Shed, lOfit. x 6ft., with open doorway entrance from flight only at E.C—Flig-ht, except for areas otherwise marked, tlie whole is covered with mixed wild grasses, with clumps of dock, cow parsley, etc.D—Gravel Path. E—Open Doorway Entrance to Shelter Shed Avith concrete l)ase.F.G.—Entrances to Aviary and Birdrcom.H—Concrete Bath, 4ft. l)y 3ft.; depth jin. at sides, Sin. in middle, with drain-pipe soak-away underneath.J—Garden Fence, 8ft. high.K—Border, planted with >Sunflowers, Michaelmas Daisies, Crcepeis, Nasturjtiums, Ribbon Grass, etc.9—Standards supporting roof. Rustic Arches over Doorways E F, and Pergola across Path D to Doorway F. At the foot of each is planted a Raml>ler Rose, Hops, Everlasting Pea, Clemati

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