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Identifier: aviculturalmagaz103avic (find matches)
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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isthere at the right time and spot one can annually see flocks nearly aslarge, if not quite, but not for long. Redpoll.—It may be imagination, but seems to have increasedthe last ten years as a breeder. Breeding birds passed over my gardenand alighted on my aviaries daily this summer. Saw it nesting inSurrey suburbs. Prevalent in all its own country haunts that werevisited, and saw as many as four breeding cocks in one cemetery laterwith their broods. Mealy Redpoll.—Plenty of intermediates were noticeable,but was unable to gauge anything as to last winters migrant birds ofthe larger and whiter forms. This and the former species can be gradedright up to the giant white and j^ink type, and they feed each other,sing, and behave absolutely similarly. Am by no means satisfied asto wide differences (apart from subspecific variation) in Redpolls.Aviculturists should interbreed and test for ready fertility in order to►settle how far apart Redpolls really are. As far as I can judge from
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UJUJ H< UJ a. en UJ ZZ o n:uz u-Q O o ( /b /«c^ /• ic Bird-life in UJIH. 199 behaviour tliey do not seem iiiuch farther apart tliaii is tlie case withsmall examples and typical north-eastern examples of the Goldfinch.This cannot be thrashed out with skins. Twite.—Some few occurred with the catchers in 1918 in usualquantities, i.e. moving parties. Have no account of this seasonsbreeding. Linnet.—^ixw old and young in fair quantities in East Anglia,Kent, and Wales. Resident winter birds were hit badly by the1916-17 winter, so much so tliat distinctly fewer pairs were noticeable,where formerly they teemed. I have known from forty to fifty broodsoccur in a season in one pleasaunce, and have seen them in cloudparties later in the same district. Even now they can be heard hourly,but are distinctly less. (To be continued.) DR. L()\^ELL-KEAYS. It is with great pleasure that we note the safe return of our valued and esteemed colleague Dr. Lovell-Keays ; every member will congratulate

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