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public grounds hard by. The pleasure m 

 derived of course through suggestion and 

 imitation on a small scale, like the 

 scenery reproduced on a stage to re- 

 present the actual scenery stretching for 

 miles. This offers scope for the application 

 of the highest human art and ingenuity j, 

 for there in the aviaries or on the open 

 e^round is to be made such a blendins; of 

 of Nature and Art that the latter may 

 hide its identity and be mistaken for the 

 former. This blendinsf of art and nature 

 is meant to delude not only the human 

 spectators visiting the place for pleasure, 

 but also its feathered inmates who must 

 feel there quite at home and take the 

 amenities of the artificial dales and wood- 

 lands to be the same as those in their former 

 rural or sylvan habitat. Flitting, roaming 

 or hopping from place to place or branch 

 to branch ; mating, nesting, and rearing, 

 their young ; chirruping, cooing, and carol- 

 linoj to their hearts' content • lovino; instead 

 of resenting the restraint on their freedom. 



