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Identifier: birdsofgreatbrit02butl (find matches)
Title: Birds of Great Britain and Ireland
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur Gardiner, 1844-1925 Grld, H. (Henrik), 1858-1940 Frohawk, Frederick William, 1861-1946
Subjects: Passeriformes -- Great Britain Passeriformes -- Ireland Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Ireland
Publisher: Hull London : Brumby & Clarke
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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n preferred the eggs of small birds to any other food. I became po.ssessed of a young English Jay in the summer of 1898, andreared it satisfactorily ; it proved to be the largest and most beautiful cock birdthat I ever saw, either alive or dead. Although gifted in imitating cats, dogs,distant poultry, the sound of trumpet and jews-harp, the splashing of water andmixing of bird-seed, I could only succeed in teaching it to say two words— HulloJimmy! which, however, have become its favourite utterances: it is extremelyplayful and expects me to stop and have a game with it every morning at feeding-time. For staple food I give a mixture of two parts crumb of stale householdbread, one part powdered biscuit, one part egg, one part Century Food. Italso has fruit (not orange, it wont eat that, although my Blue-bearded Jay isfond of it), nuts, peas; insects of various kinds, especially cockroaches, worms,spiders and occasionally a dead mouse or bird ; rarely a little minced raw beef. U!> t
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Magpie t. L Plate 97. The Magpie 159 Familx—CORMIK^.. The Magpie. Pica rus/ica, Scor. BEAUTIFUL beyond all our other Crows, the Magpie unhappil_y has so manyenemies among game-preservers, that its numbers in some parts of GreatBritain have sadly diminished. Its distribution is most clearly defined byHoward Saunders :— From the North Cape in Scandinavia southward, it is found,more or less plentifully throughout Europe, except in the islands of Corsica andSardinia; but it does not occur in Palestine, although found in Asia Minor.Eastward—subject to a variation in the amount of white in the plumage, whichhas led to the creation of several bad species—the Magpie is found across Asiato India, China and Japan, and also in the northern portion of America from thePacific to Michigan. In England, Wales and Scotland, this species is still fairly common andwidely distributed. In Ireland it is not only abundant, but its numbers are in-creasing. Perhaps the comparative scarcity of this spe

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