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fitted with a plug and an overflow connected with a “ soakaway,”

and down pipes from the roof of the shelter keep the baths full and

clean during rainy weather.


There is a concrete path running the length of each flight,

which I find easy to keep clean, and on which I sprinkle tit-bits of

seed, etc. ; gravel paths on the other hand are liable to become very

foul and cannot be used for this purpose.


The end of one of the flights is fitted with a movable frame

fixed 3ft. from its end—this gives me a small aviary, 10ft. by 3ft. by

8ft. high (fig. 5 plan). There is also a long narrow flight (fig. 6)

30ft. by 4ft., which can be made continuous with Aviary No. 2 by

opening a door ; this aviary is provided with a small partly glazed

shelter at the far end.



All doors opening from the garden into the flights push in¬

wards and are 18 inches lower than the flights themselves ; this

greatly reduces the chances of a bird escaping when one is entering

the aviaries ; the main door into the shelter opens into a small

lobby, built also with the idea of safety. Moreover, in hot weather,

this door can be kept open.


The occupants of the aviaries are

No. I. Pairs of Golden-fronted Fruit-suckers and Blue-winged

Sivas in the outer flights (both building). A pair of American

Robins are shut into the shelter half of this aviary because they

were inclined to the greenhouse. These birds are sitting.



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