CHAPTER XIV. 

 How To FIT UP THE BIRD-ROOM. 



AFTER selecting the room in the house best available 

 for the purpose of keeping our birds in, we have to con- 

 sider the best way of fitting it up, so as to make the 

 most of the space. This is a matter we should give a 

 certain amount of thought and consideration, because 

 in most cases it is impossible to spare the room most 

 suited to the birds it is generally the lot of the birdie 

 enthusiast to have to make the most of what he can get, 

 and be thankful for small mercies. 



In our school days we remember it was the rule 

 to give examples of the working of certain sums that 

 were never fikely to be met with afterwards; but in 

 dealing with the work of fitting rooms, we shall take 

 for examples rooms that are in actual use, and are 

 therefore likely to be met with almost anywhere, if not 

 to the actual measurements somewhere near them. 

 A ROOM CONSIDERED. 



Room i, depicted in Fig. 31, is a small room facing 

 A the west, measuring 



seven feet six inches by 

 six feet six inches. 

 Now the first rays of 

 sunlight come into this 

 room from the south 

 west, in the direction 

 of the arrow shown on 

 the plan, consequently 

 the wall A receives the 

 best light of any in the 

 room. This is unfor- 

 tunate, for the door, 



opening inward, prac- 



Fig. 31. Staging for room facing west, tically prevents One 

 i. Flight. 2. cages. 3 . cupboard. utilising this wall for 



4. Table. 5. Doorway. . Tf ... 



staging. If one did 



there would be a great risk of draughts from the door, 

 as there would always be a current of air from the door 

 to the window, and in windy or rough weather this 

 would be positively dangerous. So we must give up 

 the idea of staging this side of the room, and make the 

 most of the walls B and C. 



