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Identifier: birdnotesns08fore (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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as follows : I ha\e only found its nest in the Laurence (lardcns on the 24th and 28th .August, in e\ergreens, one nest i)eing siuialed in asmaller fir tree, and the other four I found being so far as i can remember, all in the same tree, a prickly evergreen (Aureicola). . . .Six eggs appear to be the full clutch as I found this number on: two occasions. Correspondence. BREEDING BLUE BKDGERUIARS. Sir,—The following extract from a letter, whu h I have receivedfrom Mr.. A. Fulford, of Devon, m ly interest you. 1 ha\e bred tiv^Blue Budgerigars tliis year (tcjiii, one of whu h with four lireens in.same nest, were quite blind (these Irom a pair ot (Irccn^i; and fourotlieri from a Blue hen that I biel from (ircens m 1915. ihiee of the Blues with three Greens I hive deposited at the Zoo ; tlie other BiUa I h:i\c ic a c;i(.e The above may prove of generaf Interesr. ,f. W. -MAKSDEN. (Details of the parentage of above birds will be found on page234 of Bird Notes for 1916.—En). Z/1 W O A P PQ
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tc O All rights reserved. April, 1917, BIRD NOTES: THE JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB Successful Breeding of Sulphur-crested Cochatoos. By H. Whitley. The Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatiia (ralerila)has bcei! known to aviculture for \cry many years, yet,apparently my success with this species, in a state of controlledliberty, is an isolated one, and, at the Editors request I ampenning these notes. Description of this well known bird is uncalled for,and their entertaining habits in captivity are equally wellknown. 1 purchased my pair of birds in June, 191 i, and Iput them down as being not more than three years old at thattime. For tlie lirst two years or so they were kept onsland^ ir. tlx house, afterwards, with the idea of letting themloose alternately, they were transferred to swinging perchesoutside uijder a glass verandah. It was here I found out howexceptionally hardy they were, as they showed no signs ofdiscomfort right through the winter, though apart from thecold the posit

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