152 Song liirds. 



iirst-rate condition. The foreign birds I liave had at 

 different times from each have been good, and when 

 I have wanted to arrange a group, the information a* 

 to those that might be safe to live together I have 

 found trustworthy, and evidently founded on a long 

 experience. 



9. English birds I have never purchased at these^ 

 great places ; it is much cheaper to buy straight from 

 one of the men who supplies these birds, and I, for 

 one, rather like the chance of getting hold of all sorts 

 of queer, roundabout experience of the wild birds' 

 ways. Litolff, of Eose Street, Long Acre, sells 

 English birds. It is, however, a great point in all 

 cases, that they should not be bought when quite 

 newly caught. 



10. A BULLFINCH is always a favourite bird, and 

 uncommonly sociable. It requires rather a spacious 

 cage, and does very well in one of the German zinc 

 kind. He will much like being let out now and then 

 in a room, when he will sidle about and be very 

 funny. A common Bullfinch costs about five to seven 

 shillings. 



11. One or two GOLDFINCHES, in a small cage,, 

 become excessively tame, and may be let out con- 

 tinually. Small square cages, with the back and 

 top of wood, are best for them. The zinc ones they 

 peck more than is safe. These birds are generally 

 from half-a-crown to seven shillings. 



