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Identifier: birdnotesns04fore (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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no such distinctive feature as has the Ixulusin its crest; and then again the Pigmy Woodpecker is whatthe bird is—a pigmy woodpecker. 1. The Himalayan Pigmy Woodpecker (Ii/ngipicuspygmaeus) is a delightful little bird in the cage. I have neverseen it wild, so can say nothing about it in that state. Ourmember, Mr. Appleby, of Lahore, kindly got it for me andgave it me with many others as I passed through. The ligurerenders description unnecessary as it is not a bird of colour(browns and white). Its minute size (only 5^ inches), tame-uess, and quaint ways give this bird its charm. It is very destructive to woodwoik, and on the voyagehad to be changed from one eompaitment to another everjthr(!e or four days. It is very ht and in splendid feather,apparently doing very well on a good strong insect mixturewith a few mealworms, of which it is very fond. I gatherfrom Blandford that it is a bird of the foothills from Kliat-mandu to Mussoorie. The cock has a shoit narrow stripe of i;ii;i. Not
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