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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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y, the hand-reared Willow Warbler, dropped off his perchone night from a fit of apoplexy. Mr. Low comes to the conclusion that tender warblers shouldnot be mixed with other birds, as their correct mixture of foodcannot be given. 68 Correspondence. CORRESPONDENCE. PARROT SUFFERING FROM CRAMP Will someone advise me as to a remedy for my rare Lessons Amazon ?For a month or two the bird will be apparently perfectly well, and then it is sud-denly seized with a kind of cramp which affects the legs and feet. The legsstraighten and the bird at times is unable to grasp its perch, when it stumblesabout on the drawer of the cage, with feet partly contracted. A few hours after-wards the attacks disappear, although some have lasted more or less for two or threedays. I cannot induce it to eat seed, nuts, or grain. It will only feed on boiledrice, potato, custard, and the like. The parrot comes out o bis cage every day andexercises his wings, and is apparently in good health otherwise. H. D. ASTLEV.
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o 69 THE AVICULTURAL riAGAZlNE, BEING THE JOURNAL OFTHE AVICULTURAL SOCIETY. Third Series.—Yol. YIII.—No. 3.—All rights reserved. JANUARY, 1917. NOTES ON MY BIRDS AT VILLERS-BRETONNEUX IN 1916. By Monsieur Jean Delacour. (Written for the Avicultural Magazine, and translated from the French.) Although my departure for the Army dated from August,1914, I was able that year to see something of my birds; a con-valescence, some leave, and, above all, the chance that brought menear home during the summer, gave me the opportunity of payingfairly frequent visits, and to obtain fleeting glimpses of them. I came to the conclusion that the close proximity of thebattles had no bad effect upon my birds, except that a much greaternumber of eggs were unfertile, a fact which is no doubt annoying,but not important on the whole. Considering their nearness to thefront during more than two years, the essential point was not somuch the increase of their numbers as the decrease. The comingand going of

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