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as 14 years back ; since then I have won prizes at all the important Shows


in the country, third at the Palace this year. J. JEFFREY.


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From the Birmingham Weekly Post, 22nd July, 1899.


“The breeding in confinement of that king of all song birds, the

Nightingale is certainly unique in the annals of ornithology. It is, how¬

ever, a hobby which Mr. Jeffrey, of Kidderminster, has followed most suc¬

cessfully.


The aviaries, I am credibly informed, are very extensive and in the

open-air, running the whole length of the garden and built with a lean-to

roof against a back wall made of galvanized iron, similar to that which is

used for roofing purposes and measures about 60 feet long, 8 feet high at

the back and 7 feet wide, and is divided into sections, each compartment

being separated by a wood and wire netting partition with doors leading

from one to the other, and the whole structure covered with half-inch mesh

wire netting. A walk, formed with bordering tiles, runs through the

aviaries from end to end with a narrow border on each side, where plants

and shrubs grow and blossom freely, and the birds take advantage of the

covert provided by the latter, and make their nests and rear their young at

the foot of the shrubs, which abound. To complete the excellent arrange¬

ment of these ideal aviaries, where everything is carried out with care and

forethought and adapted to resemble in miniature as far as possible the

natural haunts of the birds, to which undoubtedly much of the success is

due; a small stream of water a few inches wide and two inches deep is made

to run constantly through the whole length of the structure.”



REVIEWS.


MIGRATION. *


The Migration of Birds is a subject in which almost every¬

one, ornithologist or not, takes an interest, but about which much

still remains to be discovered. There should, therefore, un¬

doubtedly be a good demand for a popular book dealing with

the main theoiies as to the method in which many species of

birds make their biennial journey from Continent to Continent.

Unfortunately Mr. Coward’s book will not supply that want, the

author, who is a well-known local Cheshire ornithologist, and

who has already published an extremely valuable book on the

fauna of that county, has evidently had but little practical ex¬

perience of migration, and this book is merely a compilation



Migration of Birds, by T. A. Coward. 137 pp. Cambridge University Press. Price 1/-.



