The Avicultural magazine (1916) (14565346618)

Identifier: aviculturalmagaz08avic (find matches)
Title: The Avicultural magazine
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Avicultural Society
Subjects: Aviculture Birds Cage birds
Publisher: (Ascot, Berkshire, etc., Avicultural Society, etc.)
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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tead of white, this colour extending over thecheeks nearly up to the eyes, and passing narrowly up along the base of the billto end in a spot on the forehead. In structural characters, however, the Falcatedis recessive, the hybrid having neither crests, elongated wing-feathers, nor longtail-coverts developed to any noticeable extent. The female shows the Gadwall blood in having the underside of the billorange, which colour extends indistinctly over the sides of the beak also ; herspeculum is also only smoky, not so intensely black as it should be, and she hasnot the slight development of crest that even a female Falcated shows. The males note is a whistle, much like the Falcated drakes, and not atall like the strong coarse quack of the Gadwall drake. F. Finn. (Note.—In writing birds names, if they occur in a list, capitals can be used—e. g. the Great Titmouse; but it seems advisable not to make use of capitalsotherwise—e, g. By a stream I observed a pair of grey wagtails.—Ed.)
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241 THE AVICULTURAL PIaGAZIINE, BEING THE JOURNAL OFTHE AVICULTURAL SOCIETY. Third Series.—Yol. YIIL—No. 9.—All rights reserved. JULY, 1917. THE NEST OF A CHAFFINCH. (A Tale of Romance and Resoiirce.) By Alexander Goodall. The Auld Kirk Manse, or The Manse, as it is usually called, isalong rambling, two-storied building situated at the top of one of themany feeders of our exceedingly busy main street. Surrounded bytall trees, in which there is occasionally a colony of rooks, andornamented by shrubs and evergreens, it has the appearance, and Iknow it possesses, all the peaceful felicity and calm serenity generallyattributed to the rural ministers residence, although standing almostin the heart of a manufacturing town. There is one green swardsuitable for such like pastimes as bowls, croquet, etc., and anotherwhich is put to more utilitarian purposes, besides a large garden, wheremany of the various fruits and vegetables necessary for the comfortand the well-being of the inner man