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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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ment, with old fire hose, a pump, and a brick drain,to keep some water in the pond. There is a path runningthrough the aviary covered with sand, as is the shelter shedand a part (verandah), where the roof overlaps the shed, whichis 12 X 6 feet. The north side of the flight is protected by two rowsof firs, cypress, etc. The east and west sides have privethedges running along them. The south is rather unprotected,but there is a hedge running along part of its length; andsmall trees and bushes are dotted about in groups over theflight. Near the pond is a bamboo in which some years agoa pair of Yellow-rumped Munias nested twice in one year,but threw out the young on each occasion, when they wereall but fully fledged. The aviary will look much better whenit lias lost its newness, and trees, bushes, and herbage haverun wild. The Inmates; It contains two Curlews, one OysterCatcher, three Green Plovers, two Knots, one Argoondah Quail,two Leiothrix, one Bengalese, and pairs of Avadavats, Grey,
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%^fe^t 280 ^n Aviary Meant for Waders. St. Helena and Zebra Waxbills; Zebra Finches, and CordonBleus, which all seem very fit. Nesting Accommodation: Besides straw hats, baskets,boxes, etc., there are the trees, bushes, and herbage, (allsupplying natural nesting sites, which many of the little.Finches seem to prefer. I have had but little time forobservation up to the present, so must leave the doings ofthe birds for a future article. Tlie Knots like the tie beamsto stand on. When the Waders were first put in they iallstarted to dig their bills into the ground for worms, re-gardless of those who came to see the event, getting lesstame as their hunger was appeased. At times they seem totake sudden fright, when I am inside without any ai)parentcause. A Few Nesting Notes (July 29): The Zebra Waxbillshave built a nest, but I have not dared to examine it yet.The Zebra Finches have sent their first two youngsters adrift tolook after themselves, and are iiiciib UiiiL,^ their second clutch.Th

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