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Identifier: birdnotes23fore (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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hey were turned out into the luckypossessors aviaries. To even dream of Niltavas, Minlas,Brown-backed Robins and Zosterops, to say nothing of thefascinating Yuhinas, fills one with delight, but what ofactually possessing them ? Can those days, those delights eierreturn ? Not unless mealworms spring up out of the ground.I used to buy /lbs. at a time, and now one cannot buy 7 ounces.Where are all the breeders of these succulent coleoptera ? Imean people who write articles telling you how to breed them.Now is the tiiue to make an honest penny, but he must bewareof profiteering in the future. They can be bred, for I havedone it—not on a commercial scale it is true, but sufficientlyfreely to keep me always supplied with young larvae for rearingvoung birds. Soft-bills cannot be kept without mealworms ortheir equivalent, except when litc ants eggs are available.But they must be alive. My birds seldom cared for the driedarticle; true, they gulped them down with the rest of the insectile w c
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Reminiscences. lyg mixture, but with no relish. 1 have a few birds now, and on myhalf holiday I yo to a famous spot near here where in April 1can hear the chiff-chaff; in June the niyhtinyiale; and in July tht?melodious gurr of the nightjar. Here I take my tea, and aspade, and bring- home a large amount of sand and comparativelyfew live ants eggs. I can tell by the tread where the eggs are,and quickly collect a few hundred eggs. The sand coversthe floor of the aviary, and the eggs are an ever acceptableaddition to the birds menu. But this is digressing—an incur-able habit with me—Revcnons a nos moittons and let us hearabout your first experiences I can hear my gentle reader say.lest the gentle reader remain gentle no longer. The first aviary 1 ever built was a fine large one WMth afine flight, 39ft. by 30ft. and 8ft. high. From an aviculturists))oint of view it was a distinctly humorous effort, but like somany episodes it began in comedy and ended in tragedy. Ithink it possessed a

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