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tame hand reared Goldfinch, and to see him making 

 love to all the ladies, especially the Saffrons, is 

 ridiculous. He follows first one, then another, calling 

 to them and swishing his tail, and trying to look 

 fascinating, until his wife, a Canary, appears on the 

 scene. Then he tries to look innocent, and, if the 

 cock Zebra is anywhere near, goes for him at once. 

 He has a great hatred for the Siskin and fights him 

 through the cage bars for hours if left to do as he 

 likes, but the Siskin takes no notice of him. 



I have a pair of Ribbon Finches in a breeding 

 cage, which are also very tame. All my birds are 

 healthy, and though there is an occasional death, it is 

 more often the result of an accident than of sickness, 

 though I sometimes lose some when fresh bought 

 from the dealers. 



I am having a large flight cage made to fit into 

 the window so that the birds can fly out of their cage 

 into the air when they like, and I hope soon to keep 

 iraany other species. 



©rnitboIoQV) an^ lPolitiC6. 



By Edinburgensis. 

 It would seem almost a travesty upon our vaunted 

 civilization to find in any large section of a community 

 that special efforts had to be employed to obtain a 

 surcease of customs which are actually savage and in 

 every sense brutal. But such instances are not un- 

 known. Just at present ornithologists in I^os Angeles 

 County, California, and several of the adjacent town- 

 lands, are much troubled over the opposition actively 

 urged against a proposed modification of the Game- 

 Laws which seeks to make it "an offence to shoot 



