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Identifier: birdnotes06fore (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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ven-tilator on the top which is always open. The outerand inner aviary is divided into two equal portionsand water is laid on to a trough in the centre ; oneend is protected from winds b\ glass shutters and thewhole is covered with Jin. mesh wire. One portioncontains a pair of Golden Pheasants, three Thrushes,Brown Linnets, Greenfinches, Doves, Chaffinches andSiskins ; the other a pair of Golden Pheasants, fourStarlings, Thrush, Larks, Yellowhammers, Siskins,Linnets, Goldfinches, Cliaffinches, Partridges, a pairof Californian Ouails, and Bramblefinches. Thesebirds all agree very well together, allhough theThrushes have a slight flourish now and again ; Ihave bred the Golden Pheasants in the aviary. Ihad it planted with shrubs, but they soon destroyedthem, leaving bare stumps. I got a quantil\ of heatherand made a shady corner at the back, and it makesgood cover for them ; some of them have nested butnot hatched out. They stop out all the winter andhave done so for two or three vears.
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3 By Miss Theodora Sayvvelt^. This last suuiuier I have been rather successful inbreeding foreign birds. With two pairs of green Budgerigars I have eightpairs of young, not losing any. They were finehealthy little things and very tame. On my comingto feed them every morning they would fly to theaviary doors to meet me, making a chorus of soundenough to deafen one. They were very fond of breadand milk, and this I give them fresh every day inaddition to the ordinary seed. Next summer I hope tobe as successful with the yellow Budgerigars, as theyare, I think, much prettier than the green. In another partition a pair of Zebra Finchesmade me a present of three young ones ; two of themflourished well and grew up strong and healthy. Thethird however was a weakly little thing, so I took itinto the hou.se when it grew older and kept it in a boxcage. It became a most delightful pet, and so tamethat it would eat from my hand, without the slightestsign of timitlity. One day when it was taking see

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