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known one live for two months kept in a large bedroom in a 

 house in the North of Iceland. In the end I believe it was 

 killed b\^ accident. When I saw it, it was running about the 

 floor apparently quite contented. Snipe and Woodcock give 

 infinite trouble and are very difficult to keep in captivity. They 

 should only be attempted by experts. 



If anyone could give the space, a good way to keep Waders 

 would be to have one large aviary for marsh birds, another large 

 aviary for sea-shore birds (imitating natural conditions so far as 

 possible in either case), with several smaller aviaries in which to 

 put birds from which it was desired to breed. Where many birds 

 are together in one aviary they usually disturb one another at 

 nesting time. I have had, within the last fourj^ears, two Reeves' 

 nests spoiled from this cause. 



