CORRESPONDENCE AND INFORMATION. 



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An Indoor Bird Cage. 



St. Albert, Alberta, Canada. 

 To the Editor: — 



I take the liberty of sending yon a 

 snap shot of one of my indoor aviaries 

 and you will see by its description that 

 it is very convenient for keeping cage 

 birds. Besides affording pleasure to 

 the bird fancier and allowing him to 

 keep a collection of interesting birds, 

 the birds themselves are more comfort- 

 able than in being caged off one by one 

 in small, unsuitable cages. 



The aviary is six feet high, six feet 

 long and three feet wide. The bottom 

 is a deep drawer containing sand, very 

 easy to clean out. The perches are 

 stout natural branches replaced once 

 in a while. The birds kept together are 

 canaries, zebra finches, Java sparrows, 

 goldfinches, bullfinches, Australian 

 grass parrakeets, etc., and to see them 

 flying around is a fine sight. 



There are a lot of foreign finches of 

 beautiful plumage which are cage bred 

 and are very happy in an aviary of 

 that nature. 



They are fed on plain canary seed, 

 millet, rape and hemp and are provided 



with good clean water for drinking and 

 bathing, and with a liberal supply of 

 sand thrive well. 



Hoping this will interest some of 

 your readers who are cage bird lovers, 

 I am Yours very sincerely, 



R. C. Farrell. 



The "Wrestling" Frogs. 



Brooklyn, New York. 

 To the Editor: 



Last July while I was sitting by a 

 small pool of shallow water, a good- 

 sized frog gave a characteristic "cher- 

 oog," showing his bulging eyes above 

 the water. A minute later he and a 

 somewhat smaller frog were wrestling 

 like two schoolboys, the nose of one 

 close in the neck of the other, both 

 making gurgling, froggy noises. The 

 "arms" of each were about the other's 

 neck, the two standing on extreme tip- 

 toes. At length they plunged into the 

 water in real somersault only to rise 

 and renew the wrestling. 



Soon the smaller frog swam off, the 

 larger one resuming his quiet pose 

 with eyes just above the water line. 



