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Title: The Avicultural magazine
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Avicultural Society
Subjects: Aviculture Birds Cage birds
Publisher: (Ascot, Berkshire, etc., Avicultural Society, etc.)
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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can you tell me how to feed my baby chaffinch that I have got ?It is fairly old and sits on a perch. I have been giving it egg, but it seems to needsomething else, it has been very well, but to-day it is very week (sic) and its tongueis very pale! ! ????? Seed pearl (a diamond dove) is much better in the newcage, her tale (sic) has grown again. You will write? P.S.—Ought I to give my chaffinch water ? ****** Advice was given that failing anything else, a little bread scalded in boiledmilk and squeezed fairly dry, with crushed hempseed or maw seed added and alittle yolk of egg might do, and water certainly ; a drop on the finger after eating. ERRATA.See Dr. Amslers article in June Magazine.Page 217, line D, Secretarius.,, 218, ,, 21, clean meal. „ 222, ,, 35, what an example to the rest of the world arc we aviculturists!,, 223, ,, 1, pea:h-iaced lovebirds. (Even in war time we fear we could not bring ourselves to swallow what mightbe a Manchurian crane, etc.—of the future.—Ed.)
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THE AVICULTURAL riAGAZINE, BEING THE JOURNAL OFTHE AVICULTURAL SOCIETY. Third Series.—Yol. YIIL—No. iO.—All rights reserved. AUGUST, 1917. FURTHER EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF APAIR OF SHAMAS. By G. E. Low. The springtime having at length arrived, my Shamas, withimmense satisfaction, found themselves free of all bars and cages intheir summer quarters—a small aviary, of which they are the soletenants. Owing to unseemly bullying tactics on the part of Bob, whichhis wife did not appear to appreciate, also in consequence of a rathersudden drop in temperature, I considered it wise to remove herindoors again for a week. During this period I gave her plenty oflive food, and when she rejoined her husband she seemed in muchbetter form. Almost immediately building operations started, in the houseprovided for the purpose—a good-sized oak box, covered in front withvirgin cork to resemble a tree trunk, with an entrance bearing asomewhat remote resemblance to a woodpeckers hole. Attached to th

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