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[Letter requesting details, availability and price of books on WA birds and wildflowers, specifically buds; identification of described local birds, nests and eggs; promising nest specimens and requesting boards and pins for moth specimens.]

Record no:

2436

Author:

Blaker, Cyril A. ; Barker, H. G. ; Woodward, Bernard Henry, 1846-1916

Year:

5 September 1913

Description:

2 p.

Subject:

Moths - Collection and preservation;
Birds - Western Australia;

Notes:

From Cyril A. Blaker, Red House Farm, Kerkerin, via Doodlakine to The Curator, Perth Public Museum.
Handwritten.
Stamped Received 8/9/13, Answered 11/9/13.
See: A220-75-3 Natural science - Enquiries and requests. 1912 - 1914
SeeAlso: A220-75-3-38 [Letter providing details, availability and price of books on WA birds and wildflowers; identification of described local birds and their nests; and promising boards and pins for moth specimens.]
SeeAlso: A220-75-3-37 [Letter accompanying boards and pins for moth specimens.]
SeeAlso: A220-75-3-36 [Letter acknowledging receipt of Hall's key to local birds and boards and pins for moth specimens. Includes further request for a killing bottle and poison.]
SeeAlso: A220-75-3-35 [Letter promising killing bottle.]
SeeAlso: A220-75-3-34 [Letter acknowledging receipt of insect boards and pins; sharing difficulties in the sending of nest specimens and asking for bird identifications.]
SeeAlso: A220-75-3-33 [Letter acknowledging receipt of insect boards and pins and of [bird] information provided but reporting that no killing bottle has been provided.]
SeeAlso: A220-75-3-32 [Letter accompanying dispatch of killing bottle]
SeeAlso: A220-75-3-31 [Letter advising on transport of nests and providing nest details for Bower Bird and Bell Bird.]

Type:

Archives

Abstract:

Writer firstly describes a small oval nest with a small whole in the side and about 6 feet from the ground generally in T-tree. The bird is described as grey backed with yellowy gleen, a dirt white breast, a distinct black line from base of beak to back

of head, the size of a Robin and shape of the English Whitethroat. A second nest is described as incomplete but built 3 feet from ground in Tar bush. The birds are tiny, dark brown in colour and like the English Wren in size, shape and colouring. Writer has been resident in WA for 16 years, offers a Mr Ciawerar, Perth solicitor as referee and contributes to the Sydney Mail under pseudonym Gerald Barker.

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