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Identifier: birdnotesns02fore (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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British Birds 327 Their craft not to lietray site of nest was very ap-parent,—mostly alighting some forty feet away, graduallycreeping up to it, over and under the grass. Whichever pointthe nest was approached from their procedure was invariablytho same and I watched them with great interest. fn this nest, the second of the season, I was much in-terested to find three eggs of normal size and one, but littlelarger than a pea—comparative sizes can be clearly seen inphoto. The cock feeds his incubating mate. The young are fed every ten or fifteen miuutos by bothparents, .chiedy with grubs, in only one instance have T seen awinged insect (such as moths) carried to the young. In thephoto of the young rushing out of the nest—the one farthestaway has been fed, and the others are shown coming outfor their share. I wondered while watching them how it was that theparents coming to feed hardly ever fed the same chick twice—the reason appeared to me to be that provender brought ateach vis

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