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Identifier: birdnotes07fore (find matches)
Title: Bird notes
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Foreign Bird Club National British Bird and Mule Club
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Great Britain Periodicals
Publisher: Brighton : Foreign Bird Club : National British Bird and Mule Club
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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cold weather not seemingto affect them in the least. Bronzk-wingkd Mannikins (Spennesles cucullata): Have not yetbred, but are now sitting on a clutch of three eggs in a domed nest con-structed in a fir bush. Grekn Amaduvadk (Siictospiza fot tuosa): Have not bred thisseasonthough a nest was built and several eggs were laid a week or two ago, butdid not hatch out, as they weie out of doors and the eggs were probablyspoiled by frost. Grkkn vSinGing Finch (Serinus iclerus): Did not breed till quiterecently, they had three young nicely feathered, but the cold of a few weeksago was too much for them and they succumbed on leaving the nest. Chestnut-kkeastkd Finch (Mania castaneithorax): These nestedand two eggs were laid, but they weie stolen, and they have made no furtherattempt at nesting. Goi.ijkn-brkastkd Waxbii.I.S (Sporcegintlius subflavus): This charm-ing and diminutive species nested and hatched out three young, which werefully reared. The nestling plumage being plain huffish brown.
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