166 BIRD-KEEPER'S MANUAL. 



WHAT THOSE WHO KEEP BIRDS OUGHT NOT 



TO DO. 



Do not keep a bird in a room that is painting, 

 or has been newly painted, until the effluvia of 

 the paint is completely gone. 



Do not hang your bird over a stove, or above 

 the mantel-piece, or over a grate which contains 

 fire. 



Do not put a bird and cage in a window, and 

 then shut it down upon it ; there is a draft then 

 through the cage that may be injurious to the 

 bird. 



Do not wash your cage bottom, but scrape it 

 clean with a knife, and then put on some fresh 

 gravel ; the moisture tends to breed those little 

 red mites, and is injurious to the bird. 



Do not keep birds together all winter, which 

 you intend to breed in the spring. They will not 

 do so well as if they were apart. 



Do not keep single birds in a room where 

 others are breeding. And do not keep males 

 and females, in breeding season, in a room in 

 separate cages ; or you may lose your birds by 

 what is called the pairing fever. 



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