The Avicultural magazine (1918) (14568858679)

Identifier: aviculturalmagaz103avic (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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Cross-billswere seen perched upon the telegraph wires ; they took no notice ofus as we passed. There seemed very little bird-life, except the Greyand Black Eook,= which in Russia to a great extent takes the placeof our black one. Mole-hills we saw everywhere, and one of thetravellers averred that they were of a different shape from those inEngland. In the summer the people start very early for market, goingtogether in numbers as mutual protection ; and very gay and welldressed they look. The congregating together is a survival of thetime when Wolves in some numbers frequented the land near theforest; Wolves even now attack isolated parties at the approach ofwinter. I.e. the Grey Crow (Corvus comix). Fleet-Surgeon Jones, writing in the Ibi^ furJuly, 1909, observes of the country round Omsk : The Grey Crows con-tinued to be plentiful ; even in the marsh-land they did not diminish much.He notes further seeing Grey Crows and Black Kites in Moscow itself.—G. E. The Avicultural Magazine.
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THE CAMP-FOLLOWER. He was no Vulture, who could gorge one day and starve the next. Letters of Kinsiiaiii Photo, by Commixnder Roteh, R,N. Adlard & Son & West Newman, Ltd. 101 THE AVICULTURAL riAOAZIINE, BEING THE JOURNAL OFTHE AVICULTURAL SOCIETYFOR THE STUDY OFFOREIGN & BRITISH BIRDSIN FREEDOM & CAPTIVITY. Third Senes.—Yoh X.—No. 6.—All rights reserved. APRIL, 1919. VULTURES. By A. Blayney Percival. (Reprinted from the • Jolu nal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society.) In a real game reserve the sick animals are killed before theyiiave time to die, for there is little doubt that the scent left by a sickbeast would be at once recognised by such animals as live on the deadand dying. Vultures are possibly the quickest to spot the sick animal, andalight near to wait for its death, thus acting as guides to the four-footed scavengers, who all make for the spot where they see theVultures dropping. Taking this into consideration, it can be easilyseen t