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that would warp them. In the cage they should be 

 carefully arranged not to be just over each other. A 

 good plan is to have one the whole way along both 

 front and back ; another higher up, farther into the 

 cage, and another quite near the top. The birds like 

 the high perches best, and the higher they roost the 

 better on all accounts. Another advisable plan is to 

 put the perches across the cage alternately in three 

 stories ; or to have the two long ones by the wires, 

 and all the short ones crossing the other way. 

 In the bell cages and so on, one perch should go 

 from the seed to the water place, and then the other 

 higher up, also across the cage. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



LISTS OF BIRDS, AND WANTS OF BIRD-KEEPERS, 



1 . As I have often been withheld from ordering birds 

 under the idea that they were much more costly than 

 they really prove, I subjoin a list of a few of the 

 prettiest birds I can find, naming, for the reader's 

 guidance, the prices that I have given for them. In a 

 few instances, I have not had the birds in my own 

 possession, but the information is reliable, and the 

 specimens appeared to be very good representatives of 

 their respective kinds. 



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