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Identifier: birdnotesns08fore (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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e hen is now sitting on five eggs. The four young Shamahs of the first brood are doing well, and entirely on ordinary insectile mixture. ^-M^ A Cruise on the S.Y. Vectis. By W. Shore Baily. (Coniinucd from page 146). At noon we reached another hotel, also on the bordersof a lake, and halted for lunch. It was a picturesque place,and an ideal spot for trout fishers, as the lake simply teemedwith large fish. I guess that tliey probably took a lot of catch-ing, as the water was as clear as crystal. T was very muchinterested here in some large globular nests in a silver birchtree. They must have contained a bushel or more of twigs.They reminded me of the wood-rat nests I used to see in Cali-fornia. I dont know whether Norway possesses any similaranimals, but I can hardly think that these could have beenbuilt by any bird of my acquaintance. After lunch we continuedon our way. sometimes through picturesque canyons, linedwith silver birch—quite the commonest tree in this part of Bird Notes.
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Photd (t. E. Lou:. Cock Indian Shamah carrying food to second brood. A Cruise on the S.Y. Vectis 177 Norway—and sometimes throus^h wide open valleys, sparselycovered with brush, the probable home of the Ryper, or Wil-low Grouse. I should have much liked to have met with acovey of these birds, but we saw no traces of them. Justabout tea time we arrived at the Stalheim hotel, which was mostcharmingly situated at the head of the valley of the same name.Immediately below the hotel, the river which flows throughthe valley we had ju.st traversed leaps over the edge of a cliffin a tremendous fall. From the courtyard of the hotel wesaw it meandering down the valley, a thousand feet belowus. After having had tea and despatched sundry picture postcards, several of us decided to walk on towards Gadvangen,leaving our stoljaerrcs to overtake us. The river now becomesa salmon river, and a good many large fish could be seen atthe foot of the fall, which of course they are quite unable toascend. Ou

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