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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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curs up to 5,000 feet. I believe it is fairly common insome parts, so I hope others will come home. I ought toapologise again, but will try to make up for tlie length ofthis by cutting down the writing about the remaining birdfigured. The Larger Red-headed Grow-Tit (Scacorhynchusrujiceps) is the only one of their curious family and my bird(now presented to the Zoo) is the only one of his speciesI have seen alive, and that I never saw wild as he, (or may b&she) wa3 brought to me, with several Laughing Thrushes, ina loosely-woven grass bag. Gur first acquaintance was pain-ful as he got first grip; I couldnt see into the bag, and theGurkha coolies thoroughly enjoyed the joke of not telling methere was a biter in the bag. Several men had been caughtwith the same joke. I thought it was a Parrot from the feel,but concluded it must be a rare one from the size and. hungon, though I fancy I liad little choice, as the bird was fright-ened and in the dark. He did not let go at once even when
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My hiillan Consignment. 135 loosed into a cage. Since then Ive taken good care to getfirst grip. He toolv readily to captivity, partalvingof mealworms andcalvc and millv at once, and very soon took to insect food.He likes the cake unbroken and nearly dry. Fiuit he did notseem to care for, but he had little choice in this line. Urc^en-stuft was appreciated. I found seed untouched and droppedgiving it, but he would be very likely to eat it, fading otherfood. Mealworms he places under his foot, in true Tit-style,and then proceeds to masticate the worm deliberately; hegets through them more quickly now than he did. He is notso tame as he was; probably misses his individual attention andwants Beaky to bring him out. For show he has not points, but he should be most in-terestnig to the aviculturist who could give him room tohimself (this I should advise, remembering that bite). Tl:e figureis excellent. Rough description, head chestnut; upper partsolive brown, under parts white, eyelids and

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