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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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; sides of head and under-parts buff, barred withblack except on the middle of abdomen: naked skin roundeye blue. Length 2^ feet, tail 11 inches. Hahiiai: This fine species ranges over the mountainsof Western Cnma and Eastern Tibet. Eggs: Short stubby oval in shape, of a light bullcolour, with smooth and glossy shells. Average size 1^ xIg inches. 1)1 CapUcity: To view this line species, as has beenbeen mj privilege on many occasions, is to indulge in a feastof beauty not easily forgotten, and to make one long forspacious ffights to indulge ones appetite, not merely with thisspecies, but also Oiher rare species of the PHASIANIN^. Itis little short of maryelious to see the ease and grace withlwhich the cock carries his 3 feet tail, and also avoids obstruc-;tions likely to damage same, so that even in somewhat limitedquarters, it is kept in good condition for a long period. Pheasants are the better for spacious runs, and theseshould not be overcrowded, or the ground soon becomes tainted.
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3^ k^^ Some Interesting Birds. 137 Ther<3 should also be plenty of cover, both m the open (light.?,and shelters; in the latter heaps of brushwood lyiny on sand willfully meet the case; while as to the former, low giowing and;si)rt.;uling evergreen bushiS, such as ikrl)(.iis, Luurel, Rhodo-dendron, Gorse, Heather, etc., all make good cover: of coursesuch kinds must be chosen as flourish best in respective locali-ties; any local nurseryman would suggest others of similarcharacter, where many of the above do not flourish. Pheasan,ts do well on a general mixture of smallfeereals jand seeds, with game meal, and an abundance ofgreenfood, where the runs are not of sullicicnt extent to furnishthis it must be liberally supplied. During the winter, whengreenfood fails, various roots, such as Mangel-Wurzel, maybe given, but they should not be left in the open on frostynigl^ts. In fact, the better plan is to supply what will beea,ten, or to make a practice of taking indoors nightly anyunconsum

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