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Identifier: birdnotes04fore (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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s—Cranes, Pelicans, or Flamingoes, according to the locality—are generally present in enormous crowds. Particularly beautiful are the Crowned Cranes and the snow-white Egrets. A very conspicuous bird in the uplands at some times of the year is Jacksons Weaver. The male, which has immensely long tail feathers that give him somewhat the appearance of a flying tadpole, is generally accompanied by a whole harem of females, before whom he is said to display his charms by dancing in a specially constructed bower or playground. A characteristic inhabitant of the lower forests is the Hornbill, a large bird with a huge beak. It is of very friendly disposition, and will follow a caravan for many miles, chattering all the time. Among game birds, whose flesh affords excellent eating, may be mentioned the Kanga or Guinea-fowl, the Lesser Bustard, wild Pigeons, and various kinds of Spur-fowl, belonging, I believe, to different genera from those found in other parts of the world. Forest of Dean.
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All rights reseived.) ■ _ (JULY, 1906 BIRD NOTES: THE JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. ^be Great Crownet) pigeon. (^Goicra coronatd)By W. Geo. Creswei^Iv. The imposing looking bird which is here figuredby the kind permission of our Vice-President, Dr.Chalmers Mitchell, may be regarded as the type of agroup of seven species, which according to someornithologists constitute one of the four subfamiliesinto which they divide the Columbidae. The othersix species are G. sclateri, G. albertisii, G. scheepmakeri,G. victoria, G. becca7ii, and G. cinerea. They are allinhabitants of New Guinea, and appear each of themto favour some special quarter of that great islandand its surrounding smaller islands in the matter ofhabitat. The particular species under notice is of verylarge size, being from 29 to 31 inches in length; itshabits are terrestrial rather than arboreal ; and incommon with its closely related congeners it lays onlyone ^g^ to a nest. The delicately laced crest is notthe least str

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