78 AVIARIES, BIRD-ROOMS AND GAGES. 



Finches will soon become fairly steady in it. Instead of 

 using these cages as usually made, if Fanciers were to 

 make some a trifle larger, that is in width and length, 

 they would find them to be extremely useful ; further, 

 they would allow their inmates a little more room for 

 exercise. 



Fig. 3 shows a cage of the enlarged size. Some 1 

 made like this were quite a success. The actual measure- 

 ments W'ere as follows : Nine inches long, eight inches 

 from top to bottom, and six inches wide. The front 

 board should be three and a half inches deep. The 

 front of the cage only should be movable; the sides are 

 fixed wire, or wood, if preferred. In the ordinary back 

 cage there are little fillets of wood just under the top; 

 these should be omitted, as they only harbour the red 

 mite. 



STOCK CAGE FOR FINCHES. 



Our next illustration, Fig. 4, is of a stock cage for 

 Finches. I must confess that although I have 

 repeatedly -recommended this description of cage to bird- 



Fig. 4. Stock Cage for Finches, etc. 



lovers, it is not my own idea. I first saw one in the 

 room of an ingenious Fancier who had made it out of an 

 ordinary margarine box, with a piece of board along the 

 front and two perches running from the top of this to 



