All rights reserved. '\ [APRIL 1906. 



BIRD NOTES: 



THE JOURNAI, OF 



THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. 



n:be aviaries at ©at Iball. 



By C. CASTr.E-Sr.OANE, F.Z.S. 

 The range of aviaries shown in the accompanying 

 ilhistration is 48ft. long and 32ft. wide. The houses 

 are built of brick ; and the roof is formed in two parts, 

 the back part being higher than the front, so as to 

 allow sufficient light for the caged birds which are 

 kept on the slielf at the back. The roof is a raftered 

 one, match-boarded with felt and zinc above, which is 

 painted green ; it makes it warm in winter and not 

 too hot in summer. The flights are constructed with 

 iron standards, the wirework being light straight-wired 

 bird lattice, (not the ordinary wire netting), attached 

 to the iron standards, which are fixed in brickwork. 

 This is some little height, making a shelter for the 

 birds when they are on the ground, the latter being 

 paved with large flags, which are quite as good as 

 cement, if not superior, as the latter, if not properly 

 laid, is apt to crack and break up, and should you have 

 fountains, (whichi have), it is far easier to pull up the 

 flags to see to the pipes, if necessar3% than to break up 

 cement. Planted in the flight are weeping willows, 

 laurels, briars, etc., and I have four fountains, one in 

 each compartment. To see the fountains in full play 

 in the summer, with the birds flying through the 

 spray and others bathing in the basins, is a pretty 



