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rates within it, we are able to state that this installation 

 is a complete and gratifying success, even beyond our antic- 

 ipations. 



The Large Bird-House is an L-shaped building, with an 

 all-glass house in its angle. The main hall extends east and 

 west, and it is 60 feet long by 50 feet wide. This great 

 room contains the foreign song-birds, many tropical doves 

 and pigeons, and such tropical varieties and oddities as the 

 great crowned pigeons, tinamous, toucans, giant king-fishers 

 and hornbills. In the great central flying cage there is per- 

 haps the most remarkable omnium- gatherum of small tropical 

 birds swimmers, waders, upland game birds and perch- 

 ers ever brought together in one cage. The bottom of 

 the L is the Parrots' Hall, 65x^0 feet. It contains the par- 

 rots, macaws, cockatoos, and a few other species. 



In the angle of the main building stands a structure al- 

 most wholly composed of metal and glass, which is known as 

 the Glass Court. It was designed especially for North Amer- 

 ican song-birds. The visitor should not overlook the fact 

 that there are cages filled with birds all along both the east- 

 ern and western sides of the Large Bird-House. 



The capacity of this installation as a whole may be judged 

 from the following memorandum of cages: 



APPROXIMATE SIZES OF CAGES OP THE LARGE BIRD-HOUSE 



INDOORS. 



No. 



Main Hall. . .Central Flying Cage. .15x36x20 feet high. . 1 



Side Cages 5x5x9 35 



End Cages 5x12x9 2 



Parrot Hall . . Side Cages Gx8x9 21 



Glass Court. .West Cages 8x9x9 6 



East & North Cages.. 5x6x8 16 



OUTDOORS. 



Northeast Cages 7x12x10 2 



East Cages 6x8x10 10 



Southeast Circular Flight Cage 20x20x20 1 



South Cages 6x8x10 3 



Large Western Cages 15x15x15 3 



Smaller Western Cages 6x9x10 14 



Total number of cages 114 



Regarding the state of health and spirits of the birds in 

 this building, the visitor must be left to judge for himself. 

 It is only fair to state, however,, that the death rate here 



