Index. 



429 



Tin nests, 58, 76. 

 Tools for cage-making-, 4. 

 Top-knot, toppin, or crest, 286. 

 Travelling, 198. 

 Travelling-cages, 34. 

 Treasurer's duties, 412. 

 Troughs, drinking, 41. 



Egg, 46. 

 Tumours, 153. 

 Twins, 205. 

 Typhus fever, 154. 



U. 



Unfruitful eggs, 81. 

 Unhealthy birds, 71. 



V. 



Varieties, best, for breeding for 

 prizes, 191. 



Of canary, 211. 



Of mules, 92, 359. 



Of Norwich Fancy, 284. 

 Various ingredients, influence of, 



during moult, 135. 

 Varnishing cages, 14. 

 Vermin, 52, 143, 145. 

 Voice, loss of, 144. 



W. 



Warming bird-room, 86. 

 Warnings, 200. 

 Warts, 154 

 Washing Belgians, 228. 



Canaries, 80, 364. 

 " Wasting away," 133. 



Water-troughs, 41. 



Weaning young birds, 79. 

 { Wens, 153. 

 I Wild canary, 209. 

 j Wing-feathers, drawing, 372. 

 , Wire straightener, 11. 

 I Wiring cages, 6. 

 j Wood for cages, 5. 

 I Wounds, 161. 



Y. 



Yellow-fed birds, classification of, 



177. 



Yellow feeding, 178. 

 Yellows, double, for mule breeding, 



104. 

 Yorkshire Fancy, 259 : 



Breeding, 259. 



Breeding-cage for, 16. 



Clasees for, 263. 



Measuring, 261. 



Points of, 263. 



Show-cage for, 32. 



Standards of excellence of, 



262, 264, 265. 

 Young birds : Hens sweating, 74. 



Cast out of the nest, 82. 



Cheap food for, 207. 



Dead in shell, 206. 



Dying when a few days old, 

 207. 



Feeding other birds, '206. 



Hens refusing to feed, 76. 



Influence of parents on, 92. 



Parentage of, 67. 



Parents plucking, 75. 



Weaning, 79. 

 Young hens, breeding from, 72. 



Mules, cages for, 117. 



