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IRotes on Ibousing auD Ibv^Qienc 



By W. Geo. CrESWEi^Iv, M.D. Durh., L.R.C.P., F.Z.S. 

 {Continued from page \Z'^). 



y^ UT with all its advantages living in an outdoor 

 ICi aviary is not by itself sufficient to keep our 

 ^ 1 y birds in health. Feeding, both in relation to 

 the general principles involved in physio- 

 logical chemistry and in relation to what particular 

 foods from time to time best fulfil the conditions to be 

 kept in view, is an important factor in successful 

 aviculture. This will be treated of in a separate 

 chapter ; and it will suffice if I here confine myself 

 to saying that as a general rule simple foods are 

 sufficient — indeed that they are the best. 



There remain then to be noticed but two or three 

 things, principally the bath, and the necessity for 

 cleanliness. With regard to the first I am as little 

 bound down by conventionality as in some other 

 directions, for I strongly deprecate the traditional 

 advice so often given to us not to allow the bath on 

 cold days or at some or other specified hour of the 

 day. The proper time for the bath to be given is 

 every day and all day throughout the year. That is 

 to say a perfect bath is one which is never empty. 

 In addition to this it should always be as clean as 

 possible : one's ideal therefore is a shallow enamelled 



