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Identifier: birdnotes23fore (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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ates and numerous text figures, in 18 monthly parts.4s. net per part. Lon.don: Witherbv and Co., 326 HighHolborn. W.C. I. Part II. is now issued, and fully confirms the favourableimpression we formed of Part I. This part continues theFRIXCiILLID^H and covers genera CarducUs, Scrinus, P\rr-luila. Carpodacus. PUiicoJa. Loxia, Friiigilla. MoutifyingUlaPasser, and Embcriza. The text figures are numerous andvaluable. There is a good half-tone plate figuring five speciejof Redpoll, viz: Lesser (Carditelis I. cabaret), Mealy (C. I.linaria), Greenland fC. I. rostrata), Coness (C. h. exilipes), 120 Book Notices and Reviews. and Hornemanns (C. h. horncmanm). Also an exquisitecoloured plate, li^urini;- the heads of lO species of Emberiza, ^and ? of five species and d only of the others. We re))cat what \ve said in our review of Part I.; thiswork is a necessity to every observer and student of British Birdlife, and is a concise compendium of all that pertains thereto upto the date of issue. y. eq
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/^ 0; ffi All Rights Reserved. June, 1919. BIRD notes;: THE JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. 1918 in the Boyers House Aviaries. Bv W Shore Bati.v. The year 1918, althout^ii one that we shall alwaysremember as \ictory Year, seems to have been by no meansa successful one in our aviaries. Whether the birds have beenaffected by a loss of vitality, owin to the poor quality of theirfood, as has been the case with many of their owners, orwhether the want of fresh blood, through the lack of importa-tions, during- the last four years, has reduced their vigour. I amunable to s;iv, but it seems certain that very few birds were bredin captivity last season. One or two of our members seem tohave had reasonable luck. and. T have no doubt our Editorwould welcome (very much so.—Ed.) an account of theirsuccesses. In these aviaries I have had nothing of interest to record.Ear more birds have perished than were bred. Amongst thosethat succumbed from illness were : From pneumonia. Severe Macaws. Crims

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