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''British Birds: their successful vianagenieiit in 

 captivity'' by the late Dr. J. Denham Biadburn. 

 (^Feathered World office). A third edition of this well 

 known work has now been published, with appendices 

 by the author, Mr. Allen Silver, and Mr. H. J. 

 Fulljames, and should certainly be in the hands of 

 every keeper of British birds. 



The great value of this book to the aviculturist 

 lies in the fact that the whole of it has been written in 

 the light of actual practical experience. Hand- 

 rearing is ver}^ extensively gone into, not onh^ in a 

 chapter specially devoted to the subject, but in the 

 chapters treating of individual species. 



Not much alteration appears to have been made 

 in the original matter as published in previous 

 editions, and not much was needed — for the book is 

 simply a storehouse of valuable information. Many 

 of Dr. Bradburn's pithy sentences deserve to be 

 framed and hung up on the walls of every bird-room. 

 There is scarcely a page of my own copy which I have 

 not scored. 



Appendix i is by Dr. Bradburn, and treats 

 exhaustively of the keeping of the Nightingale in 

 captivity. This part of the work alone is worth 

 far more than the price of the book — the sound 

 information imparted therein being applicable to 

 many other of the more delicate species. 



Appendix 2, b}^ Mr. Allen Silver, partakes some- 

 what of the nature of a review of the original work, 

 and brings it fulh' up to date ; while a most appro- 

 priate finish is given to the book by Appendix 3, which 

 is a reprint of the very practical article by that past 

 master in the art of keeping insectivorous birds, Mr. 

 H. J. Fulljames, which appeared some time since in 

 the Feathered World. 



