82 



CANARIES, HYBRIDS, AND BRITISH BIRDS 



No. 4 giv^es an illustration of an eartlien- 

 ware tray suitable for giving soft food. 

 or sand, if the floor of the room be 

 covered with rough-cut pine sawdust. 

 In the event of its being used lor soft 

 food it would, of course, be stood on 

 the small table alrcadv referred to. No. 5 



walls. No. 10 is a wire flight built outside 

 the window. \Vhen the weather is genial 

 the window may be thrown wide open, and 

 the birds allowed access to the flight. 

 During inclement weather, of course, the 

 window nuist be kept closed. 



A single-storied house built in a garden 



A GREENHOUSE INDOOR AVIARY : BREEDINGCAGES ABOVE, FLIGHTS BELOW. 



shows a green shrub, of which there should 

 be several standing about the room in 

 large flower-]5ots. No. 6 shows receptacles 

 for building iiiatciMals, lianging on different 

 ])arts of the wall. These are wire racks, 

 and take the ]ilace of the nets which were 

 referred to in coimcction with the otlicr 

 aviary. The birds pull the material between 

 the wires of the racks, which answer their 

 purpose well. No. 7 is a self-filling seed- 

 liopper hvmg in a l)right ])osition on the 

 wall. No. 8 are sundry nests hung in 

 (lilferent parts ; they are all of the open 

 kind ; but small wicker cages and box- 

 jiattern nests can also be used. No. !) are 

 perches ; but a good number of the shorter 

 ones, three or four inches in length, which 

 were described in the earlier portion of this 

 chapter, should also be placed along the 



can be fitted up in a similar manner to 

 either of the aviaries just described. 



If it is lighted from the roof 

 Garden .^n ^j^j^^ ,,|. ,1,^. ]^^,^^^f. (...^ be 



Aviaries. 



l)i-()Ught into use. Such a 



house in winter time can be heated by hot- 

 water ])i|)es if desired, just as easily as 

 an indoor room. In this more sim])ly 

 constructed aviary polygamous breeding is 

 more encouraged than in the a\iary shown 

 in our first illustration, for there is not 

 the cover and seclusion for individual 

 pairs of birds that is afforded amongst the 

 shrubs and evergreens in tlic better-class 

 aviary. Consequently, to avoid much fight- 

 ing amongst the male birds during the 

 breeding season, and while they are in 

 breeding condition, it is advisable to allow 

 two, or even three hens, to every cock. 



