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Title: Foreign birds for cage and aviary
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur Gardiner, 1844-1925
Subjects: Cage birds
Publisher: London, "The Feathered world"
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ne pair, but they are notalways obtainable. Possibly, as they are intenselystupid birds, there may be little inducement to importtiiem- Javan Maja-Finch (Munia fcrmginosa). Differs from the White-headed Mannikin in its deeperchestnut colouring, entirely black throat and fore-neck ;remainder of body below deep maroon, black in thecentre. Hab., Java. According to Bernstein (cf. Bartlett, Monogr. Weaversand Finches, p. 45) : During the months vfhen therice-fields are flooded and under cultivation, Muniafrrrui/inea. like the Rice-bird, inliabits small wds,thickets and hedges along the roods, or between fieldsand meadows ; sometimes, also, it lives in little wilder-nesses formed by Alang-Alang and low bushes, whichlatter it seems to prefer, as I never yet found it missingin such places. As soon, however, as the rioe beginsto ripen it l>etakes it.ielf to the fields, and by itsnumbers not unfrequently works considerable damage.Smaller and quicker in it^ movements th«n the Rice-.
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MANNIKINS. (1) Three-coloured. (2) Black-headed. (3) White-headed. 182 FOREIGN BIRDS FOR CAGE AND AVIARY. bird, it is quite as easily kept in captivity on rice andother species of grain ; it is also sociable towards othersmall birds and companions, with whom it is accus-tomed to sleep close toj»ether on the same perch. ItscaJI-not«, which one frequently hears, is a clear vit-ivil-wil. 1 have never heard its song, but on the other handhave often found its nest. The latter is always placedin a low position, a few inches, at must half a foot,above the ground ; sometimes in a small shrub standingbetween the Alang-Alang ; sometimes it is built amoTigthis grass and supported by its blades, but never imme-diately upon the ground. It is round in shape, with thoentranc-p at the side, and is of considerable extent, inproportion to the size of the bird, as its diameter usuallyamounts to 6 inches. All the nests which I have found belonging to thisspecies were comiKJsed exclusively of blades and

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