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THE


AVICULTURAL MAGAZINE,


BEING THE JOURNAL OF

THE AVICULTURAL SOCIETY.



Third Series. —Yol. IX.—No. 10 .—All rights reserved. AUGUST, 1918.



WOOD-SWALLOWS.


Our readers will remember the photograph of a White-browed

Wood-Swallow on her nest, the work of Messrs. Lawrence and

Littlejohns, which was issued in our first Anzac number (January,

1918). We now have pleasure in publishing another of this beauti¬

ful series, showing not only both parents, hut also both nestlings.

Visitors to the Western Aviary at the Zoo, in former days, often saw

Wood-Swallows in the collection ; their graceful proportions and

pleasing coloration make them very desirable possessions. Concern¬

ing another species Mr. Allen Silver has written to us:


“ The delightful photo in the January issue, of Artamus sitper-

ciliosus, gave me considerable pleasure, reminding me of a lovely

specimen of A. personatus I once had, whose skin is as perfect in

plumage as in the case of the bird illustrated. It is surprising how

splendid the plumage of this species keeps, even when confined to

comparatively small enclosures. My bird was a great bather, very

tame and cheerful, and cast up pellets of torpedo shape and fairly

large. Somewhere I heard that this was not the case with the ‘ Blue¬

birds,’ or ‘ Summer Martins,’ as the Australian lads call them.”



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