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Identifier: birdnotes63fore (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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and were onlyoccasionally seen at the food hoppers, retiring to thick cover atonce, when they were conscious of being observed. However.they became less retiring after the moult, and were then oftenseen disporting about the aviary. This pair reared me two more broods the following year.In both these later cases the nests were natural ones, one in athick privet bush, among the twigy top branches, and the otherin the fork of a large elder tree, well screened by short, stubbyleafy twigs. The details were much the same as with theirfirst brood, and need not be repeated. 1 found them c;uite amial)le amid a series of some 150birds, from a Waxbill to a Thrush, though they would notpermit anv other bird to remain in the vicinity of their nest.^t has been stated that they are antagonistic to their nearrelative the Cuban Finch (P. eauora), but I did not find thisTO be the case, at the same time there was no friendship betweenthe two species. They did not visit the .seed dishes together, mH OA Q
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Correspondence. ly nor did they perch in near vicinity to eacli other, l)ut it was arare thinj^ to see them spar, and l)oth species were in myMitcham aviary together for three years, each species success-fully nestiny^ and brin^-in^- up their young. (To be eoiitiiiited). 0 Correspondence. A TRIP TO EUROPE EOR BIRDS. Sir,—ThouL;h not in accord vvitli title at head of this, possibl) the enclosedphoto of some of my water-fowl ma_\- interest P>.N. readers. There areEgyptian Geese, Canvas-back Ducks, and Mallard in ilie back-ground. TheWhite Swans m the ci-ntro I procured from Illminster, England I am much interest<d in Pird Notks, but quite a fcvV issues get lostin the post unfortunately. Notes on Jungle and other Wild Life wasnost interesting; so, to me, was Mrs. Dickensons article A Seeker afterPird Marts --in fact I believe this lady and I would make a great team, forit is always a bee-line for the bird market the nrst thing for me. As yo;i may lecall I was in England last Janu

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