CHAPTER VI 



NESTS AND OTHER APPLIANCES 



In following out the jilan of our work 



we propose to deal with the apjiliances 



belonging to the bird-room as occasions 



for their use may ])rcsent themselves. 



We have bnilt our cage and 

 Fixing ^j^^^j j^. ^^.j^]j ^_j^g ^.j^j.gp j^i^gQ, 



the Cage. 



lute necessaries, and now 



proceed to hang it up or place it against 

 the wall in some way. There are more 

 ways than 07ic. Perha])S, instead of a 

 single cage, it may be one of four orsixccjni- 

 partments, and it may be proposed to stand 

 it on a small table, in which are drawers 

 for seed, and tins, and all kinds of neat 

 little arrangements. It is diihcult to dis- 

 abuse anyone of the idea that such things 

 are dangerous in the bird-room. \A'e do 

 not object to them in the breakfast-room 

 or library, or in any room into which the 

 idea of furnituic enters as an element, 

 but while such tables are valuable adjuncts 

 to the bird-rot)m as stores for accessories, 

 it is advisable not to stand large flight- 

 cages on them. If this be done there is 

 a possibility that the drawers may become 

 infested with red mite, through the con- 

 nection with the ciigc. It is miich better 

 to stand flight-e;igcs on a ])edcstal similar 

 to that shown in the diagiani on this 

 ))age. .Such can be made any height 

 ami length. The cage rests on the 



EleuAuon of ftoodcn D/uib'ons 



------ Kc.^t.1 6- 



f/rto/itn cf End Piece 



Ftin oVmooden Top 



STAND FOR FLIGHT CAGES. 



A SIMI'LF, CAGE. RACK. 



four u|)rights. and thus no hai'bour for 

 insects is alTordcd beneath it. With 

 such an arrangi'iucnt, too, three or four 

 flights can bi' placed one above 

 the other with jjcrfcct salcty. 

 A small block of wood, al)oul 

 half an inch scpiarc, should 

 l)c placed at each of tiic four 

 top corners of the lirst cage 

 f(ir tlir second one to rest 



K ^-=^~ upon, and so on, for the others. 



This arrangement jircvcnts the 

 60 



