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Identifier: birdnotes07fore (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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Blue-breasted Waxbills and Chinese Spectacle Thrushes. 0 18 0 6 93 0 4 S 0 110 16 93h £8 1 isj lPost flDortem TReports. (Vide Rules). For replies by post, a fee of 2/6 must be sent; this regulation will not be broken under anv conditions. Orangs-brkast Waxbill and Goldfinch. (Henry Robbins). Cause of death, pneumonia.Red-wing Parrakeet. (The Hon. M. C. Hawke). Cause of death, enteritis.Hartz Mountain Canary. (J. IX, Kdinboro.) The bird had enlarged yellowish kidneys, corresponding to the large white kidney of mammals. The lnngs were congested in patches and no doubt this was the immediate cause of death.Cock Zkbra Finch. (B. H. Creasy). Cause of death, pneumonia. Thanks for full details.Cock Trkk-crekpkr. (J. T. Porteous). The canse of death was pneu. nionia. There were also some blood spots (petechiae) in the thickness of the cranial bones, enlarged and fatty li%-er ; ami a sawdust like material in the gizzard.Anszvered by post: E. J. Brook. Henry Gray, M.R.C.V.S. BIRD NOTES. <f
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PL G o o dcMLd, del. e t lith. THE PAINTED FINCH. E-mtilema, picta.From living specimens in. the possession, of W. T. Page, Es^re. , i ; All rights reserved). (January, 1909. BIRD NOTES: THE JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. Jibe painteD Jfincb. (yEmblema picta).By Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S. It would be merely a waste of space to indulge in anyeulogy of these beautiful and uncommon birds with Mr. Good-childs faithful drawing accompanying these notes. Till thisseason (1908) the) have been almost unknown to English avicul-ture, and even on the Continent the species has only been repre-sented by odd specimens at long intervals. About Easter, 1908, Messrs. Payne and Wallace broughtover a large consignment of Australian birds, etc., among whichwere fifteen pairs of this lovely species ; a pair of which cameinto my possession about the middle of May, and though theynever became really fit (at least the $ did not), for a time hope ranhigh, a nest was built and much occupied, but all my hopes wer

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