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and natural, pictorial and neat, they yet furnish security and 

 semi-liberty to their happy inmates, whose vigour, health and 

 glistening plumage bear eloquent evidence to the care lav- 

 ished upon them. They were constructed over a plantation of 

 pyramid fruit trees, gooseberry and currant bushes; most of 

 the bushes were grubbed out and replaced by conifers and 

 various other evergreen and ornamental deciduous trees and 

 bushes — the illustrations accompanying these notes faintly in- 

 dicate the general construction. 



Ground I'lan, Mr. .1. L. Gru>smitirs Aviaries. 

 KEY TO GROUND PLAX. 



A.Aa..\b and Ac. — Lobby Birdroom forming a «afc entrance to the aviarv, 

 by means of the 4ft. wide tiled path through the centre. There arc 

 three flights, as shown by dotted lines Aa. being 10 x j.'.ft.. and 

 A!) and Ac. 5^- x s'ft.. each. 



B. and Ba. — The main aviary shelter originally one large room 2> \ lofi , 



now divided into two by a wire netting p.irti'ion as indi'ated by 



dotted line. 

 Bb. — The main aviary flight, with an area approximately too x 2ift. 

 Ba. and B.a.a. — The Weaver Aviary, the (light (B.a.a.) being a jungle of 



evergreen and deciduous shrubs. 



C. and C.a. — Parrakeet shelter and flight rcspcctivcly-this is well shown 



on photo-plate. 

 D.— A small shelter (about 10 .\ 4-^ft,j wTtili a flight, D.a., about ijx 4tt,, 



