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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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Bird Notes.
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From Life by Mrs. A. M. Cook ; F.Z.S. Great-billed Parrakeet. All Rights Reserved. July, 1919. BIRD NOTE S: THE JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. Notes on the Great-billed Parraheet. (Tanygnathus macrorhynchiiH). By The Marquis of Tavistock. Probably few aviciilturists have owned this remarkable parrot, though many may be familiar with the specimen at the Zoological Gardens. I obtained four in the winter of 1913—all cocks as itturned out—though. at first, I thought I had two pairs. Thebirds, which were in rough plumage, were kept in a warm roomand given the usual food. They agreed well together, althoughtwo years later the three survivors for a time resented theintroduction of a new arrival, although it was a female. vSoon after receiving them I noticed the Great-bills were rather badly infested with tapeworms, of which I succeeded ridding them by doses of cina in the drinking water. When summer came the birds were turned out, with cutwings, in a grass enclosure,- where they did qu

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