. Zoological Society bulletin . ■A ! / I COLONIZING THE PURPLE houses—each containing twenty-six compartments—havebeen placed in different localities in the Park to encouragethe martin to breed here. The colonizing of the martin hasbeen successfully accomplished in Plainfield, N. J., where forthirty-five or forty years generations of them have bred inlittle houses erected on the main street. with the approach of the winter of 1910-11, themale alone was left in the experimental com-partment, the female being warmly housed, ac-cording to previous custom. In some cases, as with tou
. Zoological Society bulletin . ■A ! / I COLONIZING THE PURPLE houses—each containing twenty-six compartments—havebeen placed in different localities in the Park to encouragethe martin to breed here. The colonizing of the martin hasbeen successfully accomplished in Plainfield, N. J., where forthirty-five or forty years generations of them have bred inlittle houses erected on the main street. with the approach of the winter of 1910-11, themale alone was left in the experimental com-partment, the female being warmly housed, ac-cording to previous custom. In some cases, as with toucans which werewintered out of doors in the Zoological Gardensof London, it has been found that birds willendure the cold season with apparent ease, butsuccumb to the drain on their vitality occasioned by the moult of the following fall. It was notso with the male ostrich. At the end of his sec-ond winter in the open, his store of health andvitality is unimpaired and the quality of hisplumage is exceptionally fine. It is
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