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tame, and I feed it on Abraham's food and fruit. 

 It does not care for mealworms. My aviary birds 

 are very tame, and the Robins and Mocking Bird 

 follow me for mealworms. 



I keep a small stove in the centre of No. i com- 

 partment and a lamp ; these are hanging from the ceiling 

 in a wire cage. The temperature has been down to i<^° 

 this winter ; for ten days it was 30*^ at night, in spite 

 of all windows and doors being shut. No matter what 

 the weather is, I open the windows and all the birds fly 

 out during the day. They are healthy, and have all 

 moulted out of doors. As soon as the lamp is lighted in 

 the afternoon they fly into the house and are shut in. 

 The lamp and stove are lighted only at night. I 

 feed on canary and millet, giving also soaked bread, 

 Abrahams' food, and fruit for soft-billed birds. Meal- 

 worms I give as a treat. I let the birds out about ten every 

 morning and they are shut up now at five. In summer 

 everything is left open. In summer I hang up dozens of 

 travelling cages (the wire replaced by wood with a round 

 hole in il) from the wire roof by long wires, and these 

 they nest in. I never find any of my birds mind my 

 looking at their nests. 



Last summer m3'pairot Virginian Nightingales were 

 in the division with the Parrakeets ; they made a lovely 

 nestin a bush and hatched two young ones. One morning 

 I found the Parrakeets had killed the mother and young. 

 They paid no attention to them until the young were 

 hatched. 



Outside I have a Curassow, three European 

 Cranes, a Flamingo, and one pair of Rheas ; these all 

 go about loose, returning each to their house at night. 

 The Rhea laid 15 eggs last summer, but all were clear 

 owing to the birds being quite young. Since January 

 ist the temperature in one division of the aviary has 

 been : lowest 29^, highest 54*^. I account for the birds 

 doing so well by the fact of my having a lighted lamp 

 all night, so that they can feed at any hour. I used to 



