BIRDS FOR AVIARY. 10/ 



siskin, American goldfinch, indigo bird, nonpareil, 

 song sparrow, Java sparrow, Australian paroquets, 

 love birds, mountain finch, rose bunting, cardinal 

 grosbeak or Virginia nightingale, red -breasted 

 grosbeak, Brazilian cardinal, crossbill, pine gros- 

 beak, hawfinch, and sparrow. Of course the bird 

 family, like all others, is liable to domestic troubles. 

 Sometimes a bird of certain species will become 

 troublesome, and destroy the quiet and happiness 

 of the entire family. When such a one is found, he 

 should be taken out and exchanged at a first-class 

 bird-store for another of its kind : by this means the 

 aviary will become a model of quietness and har- 

 mony. 



The house of Charles Reiche & Brother have 

 experienced a great deal of trouble, especially in 

 earlier years, from the enormous duties which they 

 were obliged to pay as customs for the importation of 

 foreign birds. In order to facilitate the importation 

 of choice birds from the different countries, this 

 house for many years paid heavy duties under pro- 

 test, while they carried on a suit with the government 

 of the United States. It was only after a number of 

 years, and after the case had passed through every 

 court to the Supreme Court of the United States, that 

 Chief Justice Chase decided, in 1872, that a bird was 

 not an animal, and therefore, by the letter of the law, 

 exempt from duty. Since that decision, the lovers 

 of birds have been able to procure them at a low 

 rate in comparison to that which they would have 

 been obliged to pay, had it not been for the persever- 

 ance of Messrs. Charles Reiche & Brother. 



