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placed cocoanut husks, each with a fixed resting perch 

 in the immediate front of the opening. Against the 

 wooden back wall of the building are placed bundles 

 of pea sticks to afford cover for the more timid birds. 

 The pea sticks have this summer been a marvel of 

 beauty with lovel}^ little Weavers' nests, one of the 

 bundles having as many as seven of them. 



After nearly twenty years experience of keeping 

 foreign birds I think that this kind of aviary is well 

 adapted for the preservation and breeding of birds, 

 and it forms in the garden an object of beauty when 

 surrounded bj^ bedding plants and creepers. 



Notwithstanding that my birds were not removed 

 into this aviary till the end of May or beginning of 

 June, I have had a very successful season, having had 

 nests of young birds, or nests only, of Peach-faced 

 Lovebirds, Nutmeg Finches, Cutthroats, Blue Robins, 

 Diamond Sparrows, Java Sparrows, Lavender Finches, 

 Cockateels, Conures, and Budgerigars. This fact will, 

 I think, prove that the aviary is well adapted for the 

 housing of foreign birds, and I am quite sure that a 

 great deal of my success is due to giving them a large 

 house, where the}' can have a good flight and thus 

 obtain plenty of exercise by using their wings ; it is 

 not good to keep birds in a place where they can only 

 hop from perch to perch. A spacious flight has the 

 further advantage of allowing room for nesting. I 

 fully agree with my friend Dr. Creswell, that our 

 little feathered tropical friends want plenty of fresh 

 air and a good house to dwell in if they are to be made 

 LO bear our climate. The aviary is not artificialh'- 

 heated. Any further information on the subject I 

 shall be glad to communicate by letter to any of my 

 readers who are contemplating the building of an 

 aviary for foreign birds. 



Claudine Anningson. 



Wall-hain-sal, 



Barton Road, Cambridoe. 



