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Title: Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
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liver complaint. Ample exercise andplenty of green food are the two mainessentials to success. Particular care needs to be taken ofcage birds during the latter Moultinsf P^^* °^ ^^^ summer, whenthey are changing theirplumage. The annual moult necessarilyinvolves a great strain upon the constitu-tion of a bird and is often attended withdisease in some form or other. As a rulebirds which are at liberty get throughtheir annual moult without any trouble;but those which are kept confined in smallcages require particular care. If the weatherbe unusually cold, birds in moult are liableto take chills, and they do not seem tobe able to develop their new feathers as rapidly as they do when the weather is hot.A bird which does not seem to be gettingthrough the process satisfactorily is under-stood to be hanging in moult, and needsspecial attention in the way of warmth andstimulating food like hemp-seed with theaddition of a little chemical food to thedrinking water. It is also very desirable to
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I^lwtMjrapli hij C. It A TAME BLACKBIED. continue a good supply of green foods, whichassist in keeping the birds healthy during thisperiod and go a long way towards encouragingthe rapid growth of the new feathers. I needhardly point out how necessary it is to giveextra attention to foreign birds which havebeen imported from warm climates, as these arenaturally more liable to suffer in our changeableclimate here than in their own native haunts. [N.B.—Photographs intended for these columns should be addres-cJto The Editor, Animal Life, 34, Paternoster Row, E.G.J ^tJ^, NOTES AND COMMENTS. Mr. John J. Ward, of Coventry, has sent for The final publication a photograph of emergence of the Mayfly after its emergence e ay y- f]^.om the suhimago skin, which may be seen left behind on the grass blade. Mr. Ward writes:— After spending two or three years atthe muddy bottom of the river, the mayflynymph prepares for its brief and finalwinged state. When all things are per-fected the nymph floa
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