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Identifier: birdnotes02fore (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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^ proved him to bea murderer of the deepest dye, and I would neverkeep one except in a separate cage. There may besome truth in the theory held by many that the GreatTit only attacks sickly birds which would soon diewithout his help: but even if this be so, I still preferto exercise my own option of mercifully killing, orsetting at liberty, an ailing bird, rather than leave thematter to the discretion of an Ox-eye Tit. The Cole Tit (Paras ater^ is another verygenerally distributed bird throughout Great Britainand Ireland. In Scotland it is, I believe, morefrequent than either the Blue Tit or the Great Tit.It is a most charming little bird, but lacks the brightcolouring of the two first-mentioned. In size it iseven less than the Blue Tit, and there is little chance
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THE BEARDED TIT. From a drawing by Mr. E. F. Bailey, presented by him to the N. B. B. & M. C,and reproduced at the expense of Mr. Arthur Jonks, of Hackney. To face page 141 141 of keeping it imprisoned in either cage or aviary if there be a single weak place in the wiring. It is, likethe Blue Tit, incessantly active, and the aviary needsto be exceedingly well-wired to hold it. This speciesis not so generally seen abont onr houses as the twoabove-mentioned, living mostly in woods, especiallythe pine woods of Scotland. Like the Blue Tits, these birds are distinctly gregarious in habit, and in favoured localities they are to be seen in quite considerable troops, seeming to move about from tree to tree with one accord as if in instantaneous obedience to the command of a leader. The nest is mostly found in holes in banks or walls, or, less frequently,in holes in trees. In captivity it should be fed on insect food ; but it will eat the kernels of hemp and sunflower seed after the manner of th

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