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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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good results another season, now it has an outer flight, asthe sheltered portion gives excellent nesting accommodation,especially for Parrakeets, and being very lofty supplies excel-lent night quarters for such species. Those who have read Capt. Eeeves letter in our lastissue, will share with him the wonder (as I did after seeing),after reading the above description, that breeding results havenot been better—as it is one can only put it down to oneof the inexplicable vagaries of aviary life perversity. In next issue I purpose describing the aviaries and birdsof Mr. W. R. Temple, Dr. M. Amsler, Mr. L. G. Choiz^.a Money.To be Continued. Nesting of the Dickcissel (Black-throatedBunting) (Spiza aniericcma).By W. E. Tksciiemakbk, B.A.An Editorial note appended to the description of thisspecies in my edition of Wilsons American Ornithology,runs as follows: America has no birds perfectly typical with the Emherizaeof Eui-ope; the group appears to assume two forms, under raodifl- Bird Notes.
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Lhutn /// II. E. DickcisseriS Nest ami E.yj^s. Tr.rliriHal.rr. JJ.A Nesting of the Dickcissel. 269 cattions, that of E. miliaria with the bill of considerable strengthand that of the weaker make of E. sohaenicuius. To the formerwill he allied our present species, under the latter will rank thesmall F. soeialis, melodia and palustris.; the form is further repre-sented in North America by Plectrophanes and Pipila and may besaid to run into the Finches by means of the latter and Zonotrichia.The principal variations are the want or smallness of the palatialknob and the wideness of the upper mandible, which exceeds thatof the lower, while the reverse is the case in the true birds (?Buntingis). The Dickcissel, or Black-throated Bunting-, is an abund-ant species, and has a fairly extensive range. In winter italmost reaches the Equator in Colombia, and is also found inCentral America; it winters also in Mexico and Arizona. Asa breeding species it ranges over a large area of Eastern NorthAmeri

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