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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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y that this has not been my experienceof the species. I have had altogether one male andfour females. The male lived a year in an outdooraviary, and during that time I never knew him to aikDa) after day in this chilly summer, and even in thedeptli of an exceptionally cold winter, he used to singmost delightfully and was always full of life and spirits.One hen was killed by an accident, and another diedfrom some form of lung trouble. The remaining twoI still have. I think very often when we say a species is delicate, what we really mean is that the conditions underwhich we keep it are not suitable for it. For instance,the Golden-crested Wren is regarded as far too frail tobe confined in a cage, but can anyone call this littlebird, which actually crosses the North Sea in thou-sands, delicate? As a matter of fact it must be apocket Hercules! I think if we wish to succeedwith this Tanager we must keep it in a large outdooraviary, giving it unlimited exercise, and induce it, or BIRD NOTES.
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Photo by W. E. Teschkmakek, B.A. NEST AND EGG OF VIOLET TANAGER. (Eufihoma violaceo). 205 compel it, to roost at night in a warm covered house.Under these conditions it will flourish. I said above that the Violet Tanager is almostentirely frugivorons, but this is not quite a correctstatement of fact, for I find that it is very fond ofslugs, and in particular of that large black variety ofgarden slug, which I have never seen any other birdwhatever attempt to touch. It has a curious methodof devouring them. Not having apparently any pre-hensible power in its feet, it carries the slug in its billto a convenient perch and, laying it carefully acrossthe latter, proceeds to gently nibble and swallow por-tions of the interior. It continues this process for along time with much apparent relish, never once with-drawing its beak (in which case of course the slugwould fall to the ground) ; but the process cannot beat all pleasant for the slug. One of the hen Tanagers was quite ready to pairin th

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