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" The Hygiene of Bird Keepi7ig^^ by W. Geo. 

 Creswell, M.D., L.R.C.P., F.Z.S., etc. This pamphlet 

 consists of the series of articles entitled " Notes on 

 Housing and Hygiene," and one on " How I Feed 

 My Birds," which have appeared in our pages recently 

 — slightly revised but practically unaltered. It can 

 be obtained from the author or from the office of 

 " Cage Birds," price i/i post free. Many of our 

 readers may be glad to have these articles in a handy 

 form for reference — and this little work forms a most 

 useful handbook for the bird keeper. 



The great merit of Dr. Creswell's writings lies in 

 the fact that he has a scientific reason for all his 

 advice. Other writers had observed that birds were 

 healthier in outdoor aviaries than indoors, that most 

 species of even tropical birds were capable of surviv- 

 ing an English winter without artificial heat, that 

 fresh air was more important than warmth — but they 

 gave us no good reasons for the faith that was in 

 them, and their statements, running counter to the 

 received doctrines of aviculture, were little regarded. 

 Dr. Creswell has gathered up and emphasised these 

 and other points — added to them original observations 

 of his own — and put the whole before his fellow 

 aviculturists with all the weight of his medical 

 authority. 



To the present writer, and to many other students 

 of aviculture who have long puzzled over the diffi- 

 culties, disappointments, and seeming contradictions 

 of their avicultural experiences. Dr. Creswell's 

 writings have come as a revelation. At last we have 

 an author who can explain to us many of the 

 mysteries of bird life and death, and who, we feel, 

 is drawing upon something more solid than the 

 ''experience" — the generally contradictory "ex- 



