. Bird notes . ird. I am now trying* a method vvliich seems to get over the difficulty,and may be of interest to some novices of limited experience like my-self. Aftei finely chopping a sufficiency of dandelion leaves I pour overit first enough boiling water to render the mixture to which it is thenadded, sufificiently moist for use. (The advantage of this method istha the food contains the leaf as well as the tea, which soake(iinto it and the birds consume every particle). I am now treating the dried flies and ants cocoons, which 1 kecj-)separate from the rest of the softbill mixtur<i
. Bird notes . ird. I am now trying* a method vvliich seems to get over the difficulty,and may be of interest to some novices of limited experience like my-self. Aftei finely chopping a sufficiency of dandelion leaves I pour overit first enough boiling water to render the mixture to which it is thenadded, sufificiently moist for use. (The advantage of this method istha the food contains the leaf as well as the tea, which soake(iinto it and the birds consume every particle). I am now treating the dried flies and ants cocoons, which 1 kecj-)separate from the rest of the softbill mixtur<i, in \.\:<? same jay as thedandelion leaves, to which they can be added, (, X\\c dandelion loaves,flies and cocoons can all be together in the same receptacle when ihcboiling water is poured over them), as these ingredisns se;m to me torequire more moistening and softening thin the othsr items in the usually do not get enough when the wliolo is in , 9-io-i6. G. E =q Ail rigfifa reserved. November, 1916. BIRD NOTES: THE JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. Nesting of the Black-tailed Hawfinch and Red-shouldered Whydah. Bv \\\ Shore I wish I had been able to head these notes the Breed-iin^ of the Black-tailed Hawfinch, etc., but I suppose onenius: expect as many failures as successes in aviculture, andafter all 1 have been fairly lucky in other cases. This is thesecond time my Hav,?fincbes have failed; the first time with ourmember. Miss Smyth, who came nearer success than I did withthem, althouji^h tli; birds have had; a better chance here, at anyrate as regards space, than they had with her. Miss vSmythsfailure with them, was I believe, due to ihcir ^oing to nestso late in the year, the parents entering into moult before theyoung were fully reared. With me they built a nest early inMarch, selecting as a site the very branch of laurel on whichmy Chinese (greenfinches had last year built their nest, andsuccessfully reared you
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