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ampler space that they need. For the more delicate 

 ones, an aviary within a glass-house, such as the 

 monkey-house, with an ambulatory for visitors on 

 three sides, would be an object of much interest, and 

 flowers, palms, &c., could be grouped about. Here 

 the tanagers, sun-birds, tiny finches, zosterops, and 

 many others would be perfectly happy, and in the end 

 far less trouble than when confined in fifty separate 

 cages. 



The tanagers are a large family of most brilliant 

 plumage for the most part, and would under such con- 

 ditions be exceedingly attractive. 



The waders, ibises, and flamingoes enjoy the bounti- 

 ful space of the eastern aviaries ; whilst many different 

 doves, bower-birds, and what-not, move freely in the 

 western ; but a need is felt for greater freedom in the 

 case of those smaller and more delicate ones, along 

 with the less quarrelsome parakeets of Australia and 

 New Zealand, par excellence. 



There are two species from the latter country, now, 

 like others, seldom imported, which make charming 

 pets for cage and aviary. Both bear a close resemblance 

 to each other, in size about that of a thrush, of a bright 

 rich green in general colour : the one (the New Zealand 

 parakeet, as it is called) having a stripe of bright 

 cardinal red running across the eye from the bluish 

 bill, and the same colour in a band round the middle 

 of the back ; the other having a patch of that same red 

 upon the forehead. They are extremely active in their 

 movements, running very quickly about the cage, and 

 hopping on the ground. 



