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Identifier: birdnotes03fore (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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ird-Death as it continuesto appear, we shall very likely hear of a few more ** stupidfads which we shall thank Dr. Creswell for telling us of. I notice that Mr. Seth-Smiths letter was crowded out ofthe Januarjnumber. Dont ^-ou think, Mr. Editor, that toomuch valuable space in our journal was taken up witn theCrystal Palace Show.^ Henry Dart. Our readers have already received, or will shortly receive,from Mr. E. Kay Robinson, a prospectus of the new pennyweekly to be published under the above title. So far as it ispossible to judge from the information laid before us, thereseems every prospect that this new paper will prove of specialinterest to bird-lovers. A weekly journal which shall in-corporate some of the best features of the fancy papers,while free from the inanities which seem inseparable fromthat class of publication, is one of the wants of the day. Wehope that The Coimtry-Side may to some extent supply thiswant. At any rate, the venture deserves our sympathy andencouragement.
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IHotes oil IboueiiiG ant> Ibvgiene.^ By \V. Geo. Creswet.!., M.D. Durh., L.R.C.P., F.Z.S. HEN I first began to breed Canaries I was I I I disagreeabh^ impressed by their generalV-^^ want of stamina and especially by theirsusceplibilit)^ to bronchial catarrh. Nearlyever) bird I bonght, from whatever source it came,seemed to be everlastingly catching cold, althoughas befitted a medical man I was fully alive to theadvantages of freedom from draughts and of equabilityof temperature of a moderate degree. In addition tothis tendency to disease I was greatly troubled withhens that were altogether barren ; hens which laid onlya couple of eggs during the season ; and those which,after laying their full complement all right, either didnot sit at all, or else, having properly incubated theeggs to the point of hatching the young, did nottrouble about the rearing of them. At that time Iwas the possessor of a solitar) garden aviary of a veryopen and exposed character, which I had put up for afew

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