. The Avicultural magazine . s had alighted and were a dull, concealinggrey once more. Here in truth were the Surprise Birds! forthese were Pond Herons, sometimes called Paddy-birds {Ardeolagrayi). CURIOUS DEATHS OF SHAMAHS. By G. E. Low. Last autumn, to my great regret, I lost my hen Shamah (whohad reared eleven young in the season 1917), by a very unusualaccident. The door of my aviary is about 3 inches thick, with doublewire netting, a provision against cats. It opens outwards, and isgoverned by a steel spring. I had left the aviary, and the door wasclosing by the force of the spring, when
. The Avicultural magazine . s had alighted and were a dull, concealinggrey once more. Here in truth were the Surprise Birds! forthese were Pond Herons, sometimes called Paddy-birds {Ardeolagrayi). CURIOUS DEATHS OF SHAMAHS. By G. E. Low. Last autumn, to my great regret, I lost my hen Shamah (whohad reared eleven young in the season 1917), by a very unusualaccident. The door of my aviary is about 3 inches thick, with doublewire netting, a provision against cats. It opens outwards, and isgoverned by a steel spring. I had left the aviary, and the door wasclosing by the force of the spring, when I was just conscious ofsomething dashing at the hinge—presumably to secure an earwig—and in the same instant a little fluttering corpse lay on the ground,cruelly crushed by the leverage of the door. This tragic end wasa great grief to me. Even for a Shamah, she was exceptionally tame and whollyattractive. In the breeding season this little mother never wastedany time. When one brood left the nest she immediately got busy. Phofo by W. Shore Baily. Goierosily of W. Shore Baily. THE INDIAN GREY TIT i^Parus atriccps). There is only one Tit here, the Indian Grey Tit {Pariis ciiiereus),a conspicuously marked bird, which bears a certain superficialresemblance to the Great Tit so well known in England. The birdis resident, and rears two broods in the year, commencing to breed asearly as the first half of March.—Surgeon-Commander K. H, Jonesin Tiventieth Century Impressions of Hong Kon^. To face p. 147 Curious deaths of SJiamalis. 147 repairing it for the next. One day she became confused in hermultifarious duties of building and rearing, and—presumably aftercarrying a gentle or cockroach to the empty nest—attem))ted tofeed a young one with a thick grass stem, which choked it. This, I fear, must not be considered an isolated accident, ason opening the throat of another young bird, which had died afterneglect by its parents, I found a stout stalk, lodged at the junctionof the g
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