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intended to breed several birds in a room flying about, 

 two or three females may be put to every male, the 

 nest-boxes hung round the room — two for each female, 

 as they will commence building the nest for the second 

 brood in a fresh box, before the first young ones leave 

 the nest they Were hatched in. Sufficient perches must 

 be placed in the room, and some of them low enough to 

 enable the young ones, which have just left their nests, 

 to fly up to them. Plenty of stuff for nesting, such as 

 deer's hair, fine moss, manilla cut up to about an inch 

 in length, paper shavings, &c., should be strewed on the 

 floor. As soon as the young ones are enabled to feed 

 themselves, they should be removed from the room, as 

 they are apt to annoy the younger brood. 



To breed them in a cage, I would recommend but 



each other, it is often the case that some of them will mate 

 together, although they are separate from each other. Now 

 if all these birds are let loose in a room to breed toge^er, 

 nothing will hinder the union of those that are already ma- 

 ted. But when we put them by the pairs to breed in single 

 cages, it is but seldom that we just happen to place those 

 mated ones together. The consequence then is, that such 

 male generally dislikes the females that are put with him, 

 always longing for his old mate, which he sees in with an- 

 other bird ; and she. likewise, is indifferent to the male that 

 is put in with her. Under such circumstances, it is no won- 

 der if the breeder is unsuccessful in raising a great number 

 of birds. We therefore recommend any persons that wishes 

 to breed more than one pair in cages, to place them, before 

 the breeding season commences, so that the males and fe- 

 males can neither see nor hear each other. 



