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of young ones she has given you, you may 

 remove her and her mate into a small 

 cage, where they can repose themselves 

 thoroughly and gain a sufficiency of 

 strength to enable them to pass through 

 the moulting season safely. Or you may 

 again allow them to rear another nest of 

 birds themselves, which they will readily 

 do, and then they may be finally sepa- 

 rated. 



These methods are calculated in nowise 

 to injure the birds, but rather the reverse; 

 and it is a matter of well authenticated 

 fact, that a pair of birds treated in this 

 manner, will live longer and do more ser- 

 vice to their owner, than a pair who have 

 been allowed to go on regularly. These 

 last will often, if over fatigued in the 

 breeding, die as soon as the moulting 

 season has commenced. 



