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Identifier: birdnotesns08fore (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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From the third brood 1 have five lusty youngsters, which should make theire.xit from the nest either lo-morrow or ne.xt day. If these prosper, as appearsverv probable, thai will make eleven young Shamahs from the one ))an-this season. There were six eggs in ihe last clutch, but one failed to get out of theshell; I tried tf) help it out, but the hen did not fancy my handiwork! Theyconsume enormous quantities of live food. Both jiarents are looking fine, but I am going to take away the nest-box and materials as soon as the young have made their exit. Of the six young birds of the first two broods I have disposed of twcjup to the ))resent, but the others and most of the last brood are already be-spoke. The remaining four youngsters are in a division of the aviary next totheir parents. One cock is growing the black feathers on head and neck, andthe three hens spcnil most of their time chasing each other, one of them beingrather a bully. Kingstown. ,\ugust i.;, 1917. G. E LOW. I.iiM) XoTi:
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Clien-y Fii.clirs S k 5AidcDiosyiic ))iodcsta. All rights reserved. October, 1917. BIRD NOTES: THE JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. The Cherry Finch. AIDEMOSYNE MODEST A.By Wesley T. Page. F.Z.S. In April of this year our member, Mr. R. Arnold ofStreatham, received from a friend an advice of the shipment of48 Australian finches, viz: Cherry, Bichenos, Crimson, andCrouldian Finches, which, after much correspondence he w^aspermitted to clear under conditions. Two pairs each of Cherry and Crimson Finches werekindly presented to me by Mr. Arnold, and from this arises thepresent article, and another to follow on the Bichenos Finch. The Cherry Finch has been known to aviculture for alony period, but is one of those species which have appeared onthe Fnj^lish bird market at fitful periods and mostly in limitedquantities, beini^ at times really rare and mostly uncommon. The illustrations were kindly drawn for us (gratis) by ourmember Mrs. A. M. Cook, from studies which she made of the1)irds f

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