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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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fully reared. In the following yearthe same pair built in a basket hung in the same holly-bush: incubation com-menced about June loth ; of the four eggs laid, two were hatched on the 24th, andthe young left the nest on July loth, and were successfully reared. It is best to rear this species from the nest; for then it is supposed to becomevery tame and confiding; my brief experience of the bird, caught when quiteyoung, aud given to me on the 12th August, 1896, is that it is as wild as any adultbird, and cuts itself all to pieces in its incessant efforts to force its way through thewires of its prison; from the nature of its food its cage needs constant cleaning,otherwise it .smells abominably; its note of rage, char, char, is frequently uttered, butnothing else. As it will not now learn its natural song, a few good performerssuch as the Nightingale, Blackcap, Skylark, Grey Singing-finch, or the Pekin Night-ingale, should be kept in cages near by; in order that it may study their notes.
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Woe Plate 60. The Woodchat Shrike 13 One advantage in this bird is—that however wild it may be, and howeverintolerable the odour of its cage may be, the bird always appears to enjoy robusthealth. Even if one is ill, and perchance no fresh food is supplied to this birdfor twenty-four hours, he makes no trouble of that, but only attacks his food morevigorously when the opportunity comes. Moreover, having by foolish behaviourso reduced his wings that he cannot reach his perch, he contentedly passes thenight on a box in a corner. These are redeeming points in his character. Family—LANIID. E. The Woodchat Shrike. Lanius pomcranus, SpaRRM. HOWARD SAUNDERS observes that On the Continent the Woodchatbreeds as far to the north-east as the line of the Baltic and the valley ofthe Vistula, bej^ond which it is of accidental occurrence ; while southwardit is generally distributed throughout Europe, and in the countries bordering onthe Mediterranean is very abundant. Even there, however, it is o

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