Index. 



423 



Feather-eating, 139. 

 Feathers, drawing, 371. 

 Feeding, hand, 77. 

 Feet, dirty, 80. 



Sore, 80, 151. 

 Felt lining for nests, 59. 

 Fertile eggs, to know, 195. 

 Fever, scarlet, 149. 



Typhus, 154. 

 Fire and gas in rooms with birds, 



194 



First brood, 77. 

 Fits, 139. 

 Flight-cages, 36. 

 Flighting stock birds, 51. 

 Food, 122. 



Cheap, for young birds, 207. 



During moult, 163. 



For Belgians, 228. 



For newly-paired birds, 56. 



Green, 63. 

 Food, hoppers for, 44. 



Influence of, on colour, 170. 



Prepared, 57. 

 Forcing a moult, 1 66. 

 Foster mothers, 78. 

 French canaries, 358. 



G. 



Gas and fire in rooms with birds, 



194. 

 German canaries, 354 : 



Breeding, 355. 



Price of, 354. 



Teaching, to sing, 355. 

 German paste, 199. 

 Glasgow Don, 235 : 



Breeding, 233. 



Classes, 238. 



"Going Light," 133. 



Origin of, 237. 



Packing-case for, 47. 



Points of, 239. 



Standard of excellence, 241. 



Style of, 241. 



Travelling, 240. 



Goldfinch and canary mules, 92, 

 107, 359. 



Goldfinches, Cheverell and Pea- 

 throat, 101, 109. 



For mule breeding, 109. 



Newly-caught, 112. 

 Grain, poisoned, for vermin, 186. 

 Green canaries, 352 : 



Breeders of, 355. 



Breeding, 353. 



Points of, 354. 



St. Andreasberg fanciers' 

 treatment of, 355. 



Standard of excellence, 354. 

 Green food, 63. 



H. 



Hand-feeding, 77. 



Hartz Mountain Boilers, 355. 



Hatching, 70, 90. 



Health, hens with delicate, 77. 



Heating bird room, 86. 



Hens, barren, 81. 



Irregularly laying, 82. 



Leaving cocks beside, during 

 incubation, 73. 



Mule, rearing canaries, 197. 



Eefusiug to feed their pro- 

 geny, 76. 



Euptured, 148. 



Singing, 81. 



Sweating young birds, 74. 



Young, breeding from, 72. 

 Hepatitis, 140. 

 Hints, miscellaneous, for shows, 



309. 



Holes in wire cages, 5. 

 Hoppers, seed, 44. 

 Hind claw, deformed, 133. 

 Hybrids or mules, marked canaries 

 mistaken for, 196. 



I. 



Importing Belgians, 215. 

 Impregnating eggs, 195. 

 Incubation, 64, 89, 111. 



Leaving cocks beside hens 

 during, 73. 



