Identifier: birdnotes03fore (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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E. W. C. Answer: Gouldian Finches, both Red-headed and Black-headed, have been bred fairly often in this country. Like allbirds, other than domesticated races such as Canaries andBengalese, they are much more easily bred in aviaries than incages, and in outdoor aviaries than in indoor ones. Outdooraviaries are better without glass—except that a glass screenmay sometimes be useful as a shelter from the wind in anexposed situation. The birds intended for breeding should beput out in May, on a fine, warm day. It will be well to bringthem indoors again in November. If the aviary is turfed, theGouldian Finches will require nothing beyond their ordinaryseed for rearing their young. If there is no turf, some kind ofgreen food must be regularly supplied. A lump of rock salt,moistened daily, has been recommended for these and otherbirds—I cannot say that my birds have ever appreciated thisdelicacy. H. R. F. BIRD NOTES.
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