Identifier: birdnotesns02fore (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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use of death was inflammation of Iung.>, i)rol)ablystimulated into activity l)y excitement. Two Bishops axd White Java Sparrow. (IMiss .Edith Brickwood). The cause of death seems to me to be due to want of a sufficient supply of food, and perhaps also from the effects of cold. Madagascar Love-Bird 9- (^>y. Philip Gosse, Hants).Cause of death, inflammation of right lung. r)rA)MOXD Fixch. (Miss Diummond. Errol. X.R.). Deathwas du( to sei^tic or bird fevei. The liver ami sjileen woreaffected in the same manner as in the cock mentioned above. White Java Sparrow rf. (Clias. H. Eobinson, Grosmont,R.S.O.) Cause of drath, inflammation of lungs. Cut-throat Q. Death was due to constipation. Ifrecognised early, duiing life, this constipation might have beenovercome by a clrop or two of castor oil. A.nnivered by posl.^-Miss E. Mai-jorie Hincks. Errafiiin :~ne F.M. Eer,nrt on Woxllark on p. .10 of lastissue, the w^ords stewsacre should read fiiarc><nfre. H. GEAY, M.E.C.V.S. BIRD NOTES.
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H. D. Astley deQ Siith.litt et imp. THE LOO-CHOO (TEMMINCKS) ROBIN.ErithacrLS Ttoanadori.Erom life byH.D Ji£tLey,MA.,etc. All rights reserred. March, 1911. BIRD NOTES: THE JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. The Loo-choo Robin. (Erithacus komadori).By Hubbkt D. Astley, M.A., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U.Up to a certain period, little or nothing- was known aboutthis beautiful Robin, but in Mr. Seebohms Notes on the Birdsof the Loo-choo Islands (Ibis., 1887, p. 175) he writes: — Mr. Pryer, or to be strictly accurate, his friend Mr. Namiye, has solved the mystery of the so-called Corean Robin. It appears after all that this bird, as remarkable for the gaiety of its plumage as for the melody of its song, does not come from Corea. In Japan it is onlyknown as a very expensive cage-bird, but about twenty miles from the town of Shiuri, on the largest of the Loo-choo Islands, and on the Island of Amami, Oho-Shima, it is a common species. As Mr. Jouy saw no trace of this bird during his three years residence

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