How I Started Aviculture. 



turning- up "P" and I'ocordiiig all sorts of odds and ends, such 

 as Page, Perreau, Psi'fdci, I'la't/cercmae, Flnccidaf. Tarra- 

 keots, and so on. In the early spring our genial Editor wrote 

 and asked me if lie could bi'ing his friend Major Perreau down 

 to see \\\s aviaries. In those days there were but two on the 

 place, \\7..: Mr. Sieh's splendid Waders' Aviary and a nf)ii(U'- 

 .-■(•rii)t ttlVair, consisting of a nice, 30 feet x 20 feet by S feet 

 llight, with ft small shelter, 8 feet x 4 feet x 8 feet high. In 

 this resided a pair of wandering Peafowl. But, "this" 

 also was the Adam oF all my future aviaries. This, my first 

 aviary, was very roughly constructed by myself and my man, 

 and cost with subsequent embellishments, about .CIO. Although 

 roughly constructed it is in reality a. very fine aviary and liirds 

 do exceedingly well there. 



Mr. Page and Major Perreau reviewed the land, and 

 decided on Parrakeets or Vsitiaci. My aviary was quite rec- 

 tangular, and faced nearly south. It had no furnishing and no 



|)r()tec(i()n from the W., N. 

 W., or N.E., so I boarded 

 about 10 feet of the western 

 side up. the whole of the 

 north ^ide and at a subse- 

 (lut'ut (la'.e al'out 15 feet cm 

 the east side was boarded up 

 too I divided the interior 

 liart nuiLilily into four areas; 

 and ill each I planted a 

 vouii.l; oak sapliii.t;, l)ut, in 

 the S.W. coiiH'r I i)lanted a 

 standard apple tret', which, 

 with is aiiller-like branches 

 makes the finest perching 

 and (iispla\ ing place inia.yin- 

 able. 'JMiere is nothing in 

 tree line to eipial it. I 

 need hardly say that 

 the trees were all 

 speedily rendered non 

 saplings 



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GrounpVlan 

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was concerned. The oak 



I neighbouring Avood. and cost nothing 



