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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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caterpillars,but does its foster parent bring it such food ? Is it possible thatthe smaller bird does it through sheer worry, exhaustion, anddesperation ? I should like to go into the subject. (2) By J. H. GuRNEY.* The old Cuckoos have all left, but the young are now onmigration. To-day Mr. E. T. Roberts received a well-grown bird,evidently a flier, and having the curiosity to examine its stomach,,found therein on dissection a dense mass of rather long hairs, whichhad efiectually insinuated themselves into the lining of the birdsgizzard. There were three good-sized caterpillars in its throat,still undigested, and these resembled the larvae of the Tiger Moth orFox Moth, both of which are very hairy, and no doubt similar larvaesupplied the hairs in the gizzard. That somehow or other cater-pillars long hairs frequently find their way into the cuticle of thegizzards of Cockoos has long been known, but it must be rare to findso many as in the present case. • Reprinted from the Zoologist.
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o =. cc ~ Hybrid Wigeon. 15 HAND-REARED v, WILD-CAUGHT BIRDS. By Allen Silver. I do not collect eggs now, but for years have continuouslygone nesting. We seldom, if ever, take either eggs or young. Earlierin life I got together a good representative collection of local species,and of course reared by hand the young of many British birds. Nowfor reference I can examine collections, and prefer to deal withcaught birds rather than have the tie of hand-rearing. The onlyadvantage in hand-rearing is that you can retain pets, but a petbird is inclined to lose the charm of its natural contour—an attraction(at any rate to mej usually shown by a steadied wild bird. Tamebirds are almost useless as show specimens. They usually act thefool and want to fight, and consequently spoil their qualities whilstbeing judged. I have in my possession a cock Goldfinch with a whiteblaze, I.e. no red on head. This is the second of this kind Ihave had. I expect, however, it will eventually have one. The othero

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