vi Preface. 



With these general remarks I will now refer my 

 readers to the work itself, in the hope that the 

 information there given will enable them to keep 

 foreign birds not only for pleasure, but for profit ; 

 and in this connection I will observe that a well- 

 conducted aviary should certainly be self-supporting 

 in some cases I have known it "pay." 



W. T. GREENE. 



MOIRA HOUSE, 



PECKHAM RYE, SURREY. 

 May, i8gi. 



