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Identifier: birdnotesns07fore (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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t. Miss Chawncr sends a photo of one of them, butthe contrast is not sufficiently strong for reproduction. Nesting Notes: Aliss Chawner informs me that theEagle Owls are already incubating a i hitch of eggs; and herWaxwings arc giving every indication of going to nest. ♦- Reviews and Notices of New Books. A \i:ti.ra.\ Na ( oralis r.--.Vatiiralists the world over will be gladto learn that a life of the Grand Old .Man of the Bird World (thelate W. B. Tegeimeicri is about to be published by Messrs. Witherby andCo., 326, High Holborn, London^ W.C. It is written by his jon-in-law;Mr. E ^\. Ricliardson, who was long associated with him in his literaryand social life. The Life of the man who coll;il)orated with Darwin;discovered the cylindrical origin of the bees cell ; inaugurated the firstPigeo 1 Fligh: in England; witnessed operations before chloroform wasknown ; helped to found the .Sava.ge Club, and who lived throu.gh fivereigns, can scarce fai to be of absorbing interest. Bird Notes.
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Iloiii life. SUNBIRDS. Purple, McilacJiitc and Black-breasted. All rights reserved. APRIL, 1916- BIRD NOTES: THE JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. My Sunbirds. By the Hon. Mrs. G. Bourke, Of the three species drawn by Mr. Goodchild. at theHolborn Hall Show on February 2nd and 3rd, only twobelong to mc. \dz.: the Southern Malachite, and the Black-breasted, but as I have kept tlie jnirple I am. by request,briefly noting that also. PURpr.E SuNBiRD (Aracfuicchtlira asiatica). A nativeof India and one of the best songsters of the Nectariniidae.The one portrayed on the plate took second prize for MissClare, and it was in splendid condition, and singing at intervalson both days. Southern Mal.xchite Sunbird (Nedarinia fainosa).The bird depicted is one I brought from the Cape two yearsago. I had a pair but the hen fell a victim to the extremehea*^ before I left South Africa. The cock bird has nevercaused one a moments anxiety since he got over the longsea journey. Summer and winter he sings a

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