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Identifier: birdnotes04fore (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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ooking out for me. Rasp-berries and strawberries were their favourite fruit. It wasmost laughable to see them each holding some up in one foot,while they were singing and making a great noise, with theirfaces covered with red juice. The correct food for them is white and spray millet,canary, and a little hempseed, and some oats now and then.They do not care for wheat or dari. They should have plentyof water, as some of them bathe a good deal in the sunnyweather. Some people give the Conures a bad name, and say theyare noisy and destructive, but I did not find them very bad inthis respect. Of course they scream a bit sometimes, it is onlynatural for them to do so, but on the whole they are verypleasant and attractive birds, and well worth keeping. In an evil moment I formed a wish to breed some Cardinalsand Budgerigars, so I parted with my favourites as I had notroom for all, but I have regretted it since, and often wonder ifthey are as happy now as when they were with me. M. E. BakKR.
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All rights reserved.\ (APRIL 1906. BIRD NOTES: THE JOURNAI, OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. n:be aviaries at ©at Iball. By C. CASTr.E-Sr.OANE, F.Z.S.The range of aviaries shown in the accompanyingilhistration is 48ft. long and 32ft. wide. The housesare built of brick ; and the roof is formed in two parts,the back part being higher than the front, so as toallow sufficient light for the caged birds which arekept on the slielf at the back. The roof is a rafteredone, match-boarded with felt and zinc above, which ispainted green ; it makes it warm in winter and nottoo hot in summer. The flights are constructed withiron standards, the wirework being light straight-wiredbird lattice, (not the ordinary wire netting), attachedto the iron standards, which are fixed in brickwork.This is some little height, making a shelter for thebirds when they are on the ground, the latter beingpaved with large flags, which are quite as good ascement, if not superior, as the latter, if not properlylaid, is apt to c

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