FAVOURITE FOREIGN BIRDS. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Popularity of Aviculture Native and Exotic Races 

 Compared- Classification Scientific Names. 



VICULTURE, long since carried to per- 

 fection in France and Germany, is yet 

 in its infancy in Great Britain, though 

 vastly^more people are interesting them- 

 selves about birds at the present day than used to be 

 the case a dozen years ago, when very few amateurs 

 had any knowledge of the beautiful and attractive 

 feathered denizens of foreign lands, many of which 

 are now being naturalised in our midst, and have 

 become almost as abundant as our own canaries or 

 sparrows. 



At first sight this no doubt appears extraordinary, 

 especially when we contrast our own bleak and 

 changeable climate with that enjoyed by the fertile 

 and fragrant lands of which most of the foreign birds 



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