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Canaries and Cage-Birds. 



The old-fashioned seed-drawer, with the holes inside the cage, is now almost exploded. As 

 a plan of supplying food, it may be as good as any other, but the trouble of making and fixing 

 the inside box, coupled with the facilities it affords for harbouring insects, and the difficulty of 

 getting at them, have caused the hopper to supersede it. Some old-fashioned fanciers, however, 

 have a liking for old-fashioned contrivances ; and to those who desire to follow in their wake, it 

 will be a sufficient guide in constructing such a drawer if we say that, for our cage, it would 





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require to be of double the width, and that the partition of the cage would have to rest on the 

 box into which the drawer slides. The drawers will then be accessible from the two sets of holes 

 on either side of the partition. We can only add in its favour, that the pulling out of a little 

 seed-drawer and blowing off the chaff" seems somehow to be mixed up with our very earliest 

 recollections, and we feel some sort of regret in discarding an old friend. 



In the matter of water-vessels there is an endless variety of pattern and material. We 



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will not undertake to recommend one as being superior to another, but we generally use the 

 ordinary open hook-on tin usually kept in stock by dealers in cages and cage-fittings. They 

 are cheap and, when well made, last a long time. They have the advantage of being easily 

 stowed away one within the other, and are not so easily broken as glass or earthenware vessels. 

 They are, however, when slop-made, apt to leak, and share in common with all open vessels the 

 disadvantage of becoming receptacles for any loose material, such as nesting stulf or particles of 



