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and pans for food and glasses for water should be 

 hung up round the room, and hanging baskets and 

 swings might be introduced. The windows should be 

 furnished with blinds and shutters, to be drawn down 

 and put up as the weather demanded. If this aviary 

 could be warmed during the winter, the Warblers and 

 other delicate birds might be its inmates throughout 

 the year; if not, only the hardy seed-eating birds 

 could remain in it ; the others must be removed to a 

 winter cage or aviary in the house, kept at a certain 

 temperature. Stoves placed in the aviary would be 

 injurious to the birds ; the heated pipes give out so 

 much carbon as to affect their delicate lungs ; but it 

 might perhaps be warmed by the apparatus used for 

 conservatories. 



A conservatory devoted to birds would be a very 

 delightful abode for them ; but of course it must be 

 wired within the glass, and means must be taken to 

 shade the birds from the fierce summer sunshine. A 

 portion of a conservatory opening into the house is 

 sometimes wired off, and this forms a very pretty 

 aviary, and the birds look exceedingly well with 

 flowers all about them. I have seen a small room 

 between two well-warmed sitting-rooms used as an in- 

 door aviary ; this was only about twelve feet by eight, 

 with a French window, or rather door, opening out- 

 wards, and a wire grating within it, a fountain in the 

 centre, and the walls were boarded and furnished with 



