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upright in the centre instead of on each side, wired and hung in the same way as that we have 

 been describing. 



A third is made by cutting the bottom of it out of the bottom cross-piece, thus causing it 

 to open level with the cage-bottom, and doing away with the necessity for a turn-rail or other 

 contrivance to facilitate cleaning out. This is a useful door, but, to make a good job of it, 

 requires to be hung with hinges on a separate frame, which gives it rather a heavy appearance. 

























































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FIG. 8. — MODE OF WIRING. 



The fastening of the door comes last. Small buttons or hasps look very neat, but we use no 

 other than a piece of wire run through the bottom of the door-frame and bent downwards at 

 right angles an inch on each side ; it requires to be turned up to open the door, but falls of itself, 

 and is entirely self-acting. 



We might write a chapter on doors, but verbal descriptions of the simplest contrivances are 

 not always very clear. We trust that a glance at the illustrations will render plain anything 

 we may have failed to explain very lucidly. 



FIG. 9. — CylNARYS FOOT AND PERCH. 



The finishing operation of the whole is binding the wires to the strengthening cross-wire 

 with the thin lapping material before mentioned in our inventory of necessaries. We give an 

 illustration of the orthodox twist which tightens the whole, and makes it impossible to displace 

 any wire or widen the space between them so as to permit the escape of a bird. 



The perches, instead of being about the diameter of a lead-pencil, as is too frequently the 

 case, should be nearly twice that diameter, oval in section, and placed with the broad side 



