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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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itish Bird Calendar April 19.—\\iyneckj Maldon. 22.—Cuckoo, Hazeleigh, Wind X. 10 a.m.,, 23—Swallow, Danbury, Wind E. 6 p.m.,, 26.—ChilT-chalT, Hazeleigh, Wind N. 3 p.m.,, 26.—Nightingale, Hazeleigh. Wind N. 5 p.m.May 4.—Spotted Flycatcher, Hazeleigh, Wind S., 11 a.m.„ 5.—Garden Warbler; Hazeleigh. Wind X.E. 9 a.m.5.—Tree Pipit, Hazeleigh. 10 a.m.9.—Blackcaj), Hazeleigh. Wind E. 11 a.m. ()wing to the severe weather most of these dates an* later tlianusual, the onh remarkable fact being that the cuckoo arri\ed rtrst of all,except tlu- Wryneck. (-i.H.R., Hazeleigh, May 5-i7- -•Vprd iC.—Cuckoo, Lingtield Common, noon. lO.—\\ryneck, Lmgfield Common, 9 a.m. A.T., Lingfield, April 20-i7.17.— Cuckoo, l.ingfieltl \illage, 9-30 ;i.m.18. —Tree Oeeper, Lmgfield Xillage, 10 a.m.20.—Swift, Lingfield Xillage, S a.m.,, 20.—Chif^-chatT, Lingfield Village, noon., 24.—Garden Warbler, Lingfield Village, 10 a.m. Heard or seen in my garden. W.T.P. Lingfield, Bird Notes.
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gQ,4EY —The Spectacled Owl. •1// rights rcscnrd). (June, 1917. BIRD NOTES: THE JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. The Spectacled Owl.Syrnhim perspicillaiuvt.By Miss E. F. Chawxer. Last July I received a specimen of this fine Owl, whichn:)w is not often imjiorted to tliis country, tlioiigli at one timeit was well known in the Zooloi;ical (iardens of London, andcalled there the Downy Owl. This name does not well de-scribe it, for several other kinds of owls have a more downya))perirance than this rather close-feathered bird. The .Spectacled ()wl is widely spread over Central andXorthern .S. America and is a purelv tropical species. It hasthe re))utation of bein^- naturally tame, which my bird fullyl)ears out. The day after his arrival he sidled along his perchand held down his head, as a Parrot does, when inviting afriend to scratch a poll and with the same object, for no-thing gives him greater pleasure than to have his head scrat-ched witli a finger or a bit of stick. He is absolut

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