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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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d above the head, with its edges meeting the upper edges of the green pectoral shield. . , . D. Seth Smith. -- Post Mortem Reports. January 2nd. Mal.achite SuNBiKO ((5): Hon. Mrs. Bourke, 75 Gloucester Place, W.—Double pneumonia.January ist. Blue Budgerigar (9): Hon. Mrs. Bourke.—Fatty degener-ation of liver, with a terminal congestion of lungs.J;;nuary 7th. Tanager : H. G. the Duchess of Wellington, Ewhurst Park, Basingstoke.—Advice and sex given by post.January 8th.—Passerine Parr.\keet : W. R. H. Bearby, West Hartlepool.^— Answered by post,January 17th. Bluebird : H. G. the Duchess of Wellington.—Answered by post.January i8th. Tanager : H. G. the Duchess of Wellington.—Answered by post.Fcbruarv i8th. Nonpareil Bunting (c?). Indigo Bunting (9): H. Whitley, Paignton, S. Devon.—Both birds were suffering from an acute enteritis; all other organs were normal.February 27th. Palm Tanager: H. Whitlev, S Devon.—Enteritis; all other organs normal. C. H. HICKS. H o p
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All Rights Reserved. April, 1923 BIRD NOTES. THEJOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. Some African Thrushes. By W. Shore Baily, F.Z.S. The TuRDiDAE have one great drawback from anaviculturists point of view—their extreme quarrelsomeness witheach other, and with other members of the family. I have notnoticed them interfere with Finches and similar small birds,but they will not hesitate to tackle doves, pigeons, and, at times,even such large birds as pheasants. Nevertheless, as they aresuch handsome birds, one is always inclined to keep a pair in anaviary. More than one pair, even if of different species, in thesame aviary will not do, as they would fight to the death.Strange to say, the hens are quite as pugnacious as the cocks,and, as very often they are actually bigger than their would-behusbands, they not seldom prove themselves the masters. Onone occasion I had a male Olivaceous Thrush actually killed inthis way. Once the breeding season is well under way theyagree a little better, b

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