Identifier: birdnotes02fore (find matches)
Title: Bird notes
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Foreign Bird Club National British Bird and Mule Club
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Great Britain Periodicals
Publisher: Brighton : Foreign Bird Club : National British Bird and Mule Club
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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to begin with, I should give a purgative in the shape of Epsomsalts (half a teaspoonful dissolved in a wine glass of hot water).Then give a change of food. Minute insects are no good forsuch large birds. Feed on some good Thrushs food, mixedcrumbly moist with grated carrot or cold boiled potato (firstpressed through a sieve), chicken meal (without the shell-grit)scalded, can be given on alternate days. This ought to formthe staple food, which can be supplemented occasionally witha little lean beef finely chopped, with a mouse or dead Sparrowfor a change. As all the Crow tribe are practically omnivorous,an occasional hard-boiled egg and scraps from the table willnever come amiss. Of course, if the bird has caught cold, which I doubt, itmust be kept free from draughts, and, during the moult, aswarm and quiet as possible. Cover the cage bottom withdamp cocoa fibre refuse, and let the perches be about an inchand a half in diameter so that it can rest its feet firmly onthem. John Frostick.
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PAkROT AND CAT, belonging to Mrs. FRANK Al TWKIJ..rhey are very great Chums—the cat, when quite a liltle kitten, wort/</ getinto the cage, and they played together like two kittens. The parrotis delighted when the cat conies into the cage, and they play togethereven now that the cat has grown so large. To face page 197.

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