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Caxarifs and Cage-Birds. 



Parrots or Parrakeets a very large cage or aviary is required, and then a log of wood must be 

 scraped, or turned hollow, to imitate as nearly as can be a natural tree with a decayed branch- 

 root (Fig. 83). A branch should be left on the trunk, or fixed to it, on which the male will sit 

 keeping guard over the nest, which must be fixed at some height from the floor. Some Parrakeets, 

 notably the undulated, like a cocoa-nut husk, which can be fixed as shown in Fig. 84. 



FIG. 83. — TREE-NEST FOR PARRAKEET, 



FIG. 84. — COCOA-NUT HUSK. 



The illustrations to these chapters will speak for themselves. They have been drawn 

 by Mr. William Rutledge, of Sunderland, with much talent and care, from live specimens. 

 Miss Dyson, T. C. Marsh, Esq., Mr. J. Abrahams, Mr. Jos. Groom, Mr. Chas. Jamrach, Mr. 

 Anton Jamrach, and Mr. Edward Hawkins have very kindly lent valuable birds, some of them 

 very rare, for the purpose of being illustrated. 



