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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: carmine-red of the breast of the male Bullfinch, and I venture to say that if one of these birds were exhibited iu any village school in Norfolk or Suffolk, it would be recognised as a Blood-Olph. A friend, who has for many years takeu much interest in the Suffolk dialect, has appealed in vain in the local press for information as to the origin of the name Olph. Montagu and St. John, in their respective works on British Birds, give the name Alp, the latter adding in his index, Bloodulf, a name for the Bullfinch. It may be of interest to add that in May last I had a nest of the Bullfinch brought me, with three eggs of the Bullfinch and one of the Cuckoo, which I believe to be thoroughly genuine, ? Julian G. Took (Tostock Rectory, Bury St. Edmunds). Ring Dove pairing with Domestic Pigeon.?During the past summer a Ring Dove, Columba palumbus, paired with a House Pigeon at Rusland, and two, if not three, clutches of eggs were laid during the course of the summer in the buildings. Though both the parent birds attended zealously to the task of incubation, I am sorry to say the eggs proved unfertile. The birds were much attached to each other, and the tame bird seemed proud of the alliance. The cushat, a hen bird, was quite tame, and fed fearlessly on the lawn and in the yard.?Charles F. Archibald (Rusland Hall, Ul version). Several cases are on record of the Wood Pigeon breeding in captivity, but instances of its interbreeding or pairing with other species are rare. In ' The Field' of July 22nd, 1876, Mr. Tomalin, of Northampton, reported that a male Stock Dove paired with a hen Wood Pigeon in his aviary, and two eggs were laid, but were unfortunately broken, having been evidently pecked by one of the birds. The late Mr. Robert Gray, of Glasgow, several times succeede...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217657778 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021765777X |
| Weight | 1.37 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.95 In |
| List Price | $27.46 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 426 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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