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CHAPTER VII. 



AVIARY BIRDS AND CAGES. 



31. JttaltttjJ gives useful information 

 in relation to aviaries, but mostly 

 adapted to English birds and English cli- 

 mate. " The most enjoyable arrangement 

 that I ever knew for the cage bird building, 

 was a plan adopted for my birds when I was 

 a child. We had at that time a good many 

 birds kept in different ways ; some loose in 

 a room, some in single cages, and others in 

 one large cage, standing about six feet high, 

 which was divided into separate apartments, 

 and provided with gratings to shut off young 

 broods. The top had a sloping roof to shed 

 rain, and a water-proof curtain was hung at 

 night before the wire front. 



" This cage used every spring to be car- 

 ried out into the garden, when the green- 



