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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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f grown young in the nest. Both male and female were feeding. Suddenly, I noticed a brighter coloured male fly over and light in a near- by tree while the father of the nestlings darted at him and drove him oflf. The next morning I noticed the same male appear and there was another fight. The mother had been feeding her young, but as the hours pas.sed her visits were fewer and I noticed only the male was bringing food. The next day the female had deserted her young entirely, for only the male was about and he had assumed entire charge of the hou.sehold. It happened a rain storm came up that night, and as the young birds were not covered we found them dead the next morning. The male was about with food, but there were no young to be fed. He stayed about most of the day, but I did not see the mother again. From all appearance she was a deliberate deserter. Can it be that some birds are as unbirdlike as some people are inhuman ? —William I<. Finley, Portland, Oregon. BIRD N O T K S.
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THE KAGU (Rhinochetus jubatusl./use/—SUN BITTERN DISPLAYING. 157The Kagu (RhinocheUis jubatusj and Sun Bittern (Eurypyga helias). The fine photographs by my brother(Mr. E. O. Page) reproduced herewith, figure two very interest-ing and rare birds. Probably only about six or seven of thefirst-named liave reached this country alive, and these have allbeen exliibited at the Zoo two in 1S62, one in 1866, two orthree in 1884-5, and one in 1906, the latter forming the subjectof our illustration. The Kagu has been noted in this (seeDr. McDonaghs article, Wanderings in the Zoo in Marchissue) and otlier journals. The photograph is perhaps marredby the figures in the background, but the photographs had tobe taken as opportunity occurred and the camera with thebirds display attracted the crowd. A rather melancholyinterest attaches to the photograpli of the vSnn Bittern, bothspecimens* dying about three days after the photographs weretaken, and an accident happening to the negative showing thewh

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