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common mahogany, as any one may judge for himself 

 if he will only contrast any substance of red and yellow 

 together, beside yellow and black. • All fanciers when 

 they wish to exhibit their birds to a purchaser or 

 otherwise, invariably use a black cage and not a maho- 

 gany one, which speaks for itself. And yet how few 

 such cages do you see exhibited for sale ; if you wish 

 for one, it is ten to one that you will have specially 

 to order it, and yet its greater superiority for exhi- 

 biting a canary off to the best advantage over all the 

 japanned pagodas and Swiss cottages that ever were 

 made is beyond dispute, and requires only to be seen 

 to be at once admitted. 



"For the purpose of breeding of course a cage of a 

 totally different construction is required, and the ordi- 

 nary shape will answer every end. The double one, 

 however, will probably be most convenient, its size 

 being something like the following dimensions, viz., 

 three feet six inches long, one foot wide, and two feet 

 high. This will be quite large enough, divided by a 

 wooden partition in the cetitre, for two pair of birds, 

 and it will be far better in the end to have a number 

 of these according to the extent of your breeding esta- 

 blishment, than to put two or more pairs together in 

 a larger cage, as they are almost sure to fight, when 

 the hazard of breaking their eggs, or killing the young, 

 we need scarcely say, is very great. Under any cir- 



