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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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never makes the noise the other members of thefamily do, but then it is very stupid. Docilis is in-telligent and does not make so very much noise. If Icould get a hen and breed them and bring up theyoung by hand I could make nice pets of the nest-lings. They used to import them into France in thenestling state, but now they seem difficult to get. ^be Xaugbiiuj Ikingfisheis. 1. Dacelo gigantea. 2. Dacelo cervina. By WESI.EY T. PAGE, F.Z.S.The two birds forming the subject of the platewere photographed in the Western Aviary at theLondon Zoo early this summer, and show the twospecies inhabiting, the former Southern and the latterNorthern Australia. It is a most useful bird in itsnative wilds, destroying an enormous number ofnoxious and venomous reptiles. The late Dr. W. T.Greene gives an instance in Birds of Brit. Empire,and relates a personal experience as follows :— I once found a lizard in the crop of a Dacelo that was as long as the bird itself, and it will kill and swallow a snake
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171 after nie in the aviary. Very different in that respectto PalcBornis. These are all in a commotion when Ienter. The loiigicaudas dash into the sleepinj^j houseif they have time. The docilis is the only one thatstands its ground. I am rather inclined to think itwould become friendly with anyone who had the giftof taming birds. I do not know that docilis ever becomes such agood talker as torgiiaius, but I should say after a goodeupatriics it is the best pet amongst the genus. Longi-ca2ida never makes the noise the other members of thefamily do, but then it is very stupid. Docilis is in-telligent and does not make so very much noise. If Icould get a hen and breed them and bring up theyoinig by hand I could make nice pets of the nest-lings. They used to import them into France in thenestling state, but now they seem difficult to get. ITbe XauGbiiiQ Ikingfisbcrs. 1. Dacelo gigantea. 2. Dacelo cervina. By Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S. The two birds forming the subject of the platewere photogra

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