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just the width of a window, in which it is 

 very nice to place them. If one end has 

 glass sides for the bath, the amusement of 

 watching the birds will be very great, A 

 cage like this will hold two dozen birds. In 

 drawing-rooms it would look well to have 

 the wood match the furniture or the window 

 frame ; whatever is the wood it must be 

 solid, with no veneers or inlaying in any 

 part that the birds can get at. 



These cages can have an eating-room at 

 one end, with the walls wholly or partly of 

 glass outside the wire to keep the seed in, 

 or they may be supplied with food boxes. I 

 think, however, the two shut-in apartments, 

 one at each end for food and bathing, is a 

 good arrangement. A long, well -polished 

 round perch should run along the front and 

 back of the cage, the front next the room 

 particularly, because if the birds are tame 

 they will probably, when they want any- 

 thing, come and sit in one long line along 

 the front, looking at their mistress, and mak 



