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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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written to the Editor with that wonderful spiritof cheeriness and pluck which possesses our soldiers, telling him ofbirds he saw on the battlefields in France, and adding All beingwell, I shall have to start aviculture again one day, and then I hope torejoin the Society. We are sure he will be warmly welcomed back.Amongst many of the more ordinary species of birds which he sawabout the trenches, such as Eobins, Wrens, Blackbirds, Woodlark,Meadow-pipits, etc., he mentions Grey Wagtails, which often ranabout on the ice in the shell-holes. There is also a dark little hawk,probably a Merlin, not bigger than a Missel-thrush, that is always inevidence, and sometimes comes over the top of a trench at such arate as to set men dodging, thinking it is some missile. Messrs. Witherby & Co. have been appointed EuropeanAgents for the Journal of the Natural History Society of Siam. The work is illustrated with plates and figures, and deals withall branches of the natural history of that country.
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157THE AVICULTURAL riAOAZINE, BEING THE JOURNAL OFTHE AVICULTURAL SOCIETY. Third Series.—Yol. YIIL—No. 6.—All rights reserved. APRIL, 1917. THE MANED GOOSE (ChenonetU Jabata). By Hugh Wormald. Our Editor has recently, on more than one occasion, mentionedhisManed geese, and I can only enthusiastically concur with all theeulogies he has heaped on them. Unfortunately, like all Australianbirds, they are very difficult to obtain now. Some six years ago Ireceived a pair from Holland, and though they throve well and weregiven every inducement, they made no attempt to go to nest, and thisin spite of the fact that they were always devoted to each other andexceedingly tame, I am induced to believe that they were too tame,for in my experience, very tame birds do not breed so easily as lesstame ones. My pair always walked or swam to meet anybody whowent near them, and immediately on reaching one the gander alwaysdrew himself up, threw his head back and uttered his rather feeblenote. Like al

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