PUHFACK. 



PREFACE. 



This little Manual of Bird-Keeping is intended as a 

 practical help to those who find both pleasure and profit 

 from the keeping of Wild Birds in confinement. The 

 articles which have appeared month by month in the pages 

 of the Avicultui al Magazine, are by various authors, each 

 of whom is a specialist in tlie groups with which he deals, 

 and our best thanks are due to those ladies and gentlemen 

 who have so freely and unreservedly placed the results of 

 their experience at our disposal. 



We have added a List of References to the various 

 more important papers, that have appeared in the past 

 numbers of our Journal, so that those specially interested 

 in any particular group or species may be able to read up 

 the subject at greater length. That a book on Practical 

 Bird-Keeping is required, will be acknowledged by all, who 

 from their oflScial position or some other cause, receive 

 among their daily correspondence, letters asking for inform- 

 ation on some of the most common and easily kept birds. 

 It has been the aim and object of these articles to supply 

 that need, and we may fairly claim this to be the first book 

 on the subject in which every chapter has been contributed 

 by a specialist. 



THE EDITOR. 



Hemel Hempstead. 



December, 19x2. 



