Bird notes

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Identifier: birdnotesns07fore (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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Iliutc III \ . Shore Baity, Half-masked Weaver Cock displaying. All rights reserved. January, 1916, BIRD NOTES: THE JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB The Nesting of Half-Masked Golden and Spot-Winged Weavers.—Three Failures. I5y V. Shore Daily. I have written B.X. so many times this season aboutthe happenings in my aiaries, that it is with some diffi-dence that I venture to seiid this record of three failures toraise youtig amongst my collection of Weavers. The firstfailure might, with a little more luck, have ended in success.This was witli my pair of Half-masked Weavers (Hyphaii-lorui:, vitclliinis). The male of this ariety is one of themost pleasingly coloured of the Hyphantliorniiic group. Thegeneral body colour of the male is greenish-yellow, a narrowband on forehead, and the throat black, crown of head richchestnut, also a considerabk^ patch of the same colour bordersthe black patch on throat. The hen is greenish-yellow, and ishard to distinguish from some of the other fema

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