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Identifier: birdnotesns04fore (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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■om-mon to many large birds. After the bird had been in my pos.session for 7 monthshe was shipped on board the City of Athens, at Ivarachi,on the 9th October for transmission to Regents Park, whoreI thought he would be of more use than in my possession. Forthe sea journey his old crate was strengthened and coveredwith small mesh wire-netting. He reached the Zoological Gardens safely and last yearI went and saw Ws new abode—one of the large Birds ofPrey Avia^ie3, which he was then sharing with an adult speci-men from Turkestan. The keeper allowed me to enter thecage and I picked up and handled the bird as of old: but ilwas clear that he objected and had clean forgotten me, whichwas sad, as we had been such good friends. He is still there if any of our members care to look foi-him. How I Started Aviculture and My First Seasonwith Parrakeets. By Dr Lovkll Kkays.Aviculture to me centres round the letter P. Ifavicultuie is a sin, the recording angel would be constantly mm!iiw iniii^lmm
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How I Started Aviculture. turning- up P and Iocordiiig all sorts of odds and ends, suchas Page, Perreau, Psifdci, Ilat/cercmae, Flnccidaf. Tarra-keots, and so on. In the early spring our genial Editor wroteand asked me if lie could biing his friend Major Perreau downto see \\\s aviaries. In those days there were but two on theplace, \\7..: Mr. Siehs splendid Waders Aviary and a nf)ii(U-.-■(•rii)t ttlVair, consisting of a nice, 30 feet x 20 feet by S feetllight, with ft small shelter, 8 feet x 4 feet x 8 feet high. Inthis resided a pair of wandering Peafowl. But, thisalso was the Adam oF all my future aviaries. This, my firstaviary, was very roughly constructed by myself and my man,and cost with subsequent embellishments, about .CIO. Althoughroughly constructed it is in reality a. very fine aviary and liirdsdo exceedingly well there. Mr. Page and Major Perreau reviewed the land, anddecided on Parrakeets or Vsitiaci. My aviary was quite rec-tangular, and faced nearly south. It had n

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