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of one another, when one—with a horrible YOWL which nearly

scraped the hair off one’s head, and adequately accounts for the

absence of feathers on the throat of the species—would bound

into the air and endeavour to come down on to the head or neck

of his antagonist. But nothing came or seemed likely to come

of all these yowlings and circus-jumpings, and space was scarce,

so I still left them together ;—and one day I found the old warrior

in a heap on the floor of the cage in a state of collapse, with his

white robe soiled and blood-stained. The young bird had at

length succeeded in getting a blow in, and had inflicted not a

trivial scratch but a really serious cut across the back of the head,

at the base of the skull. Their movements at the climax were

so rapid as to render it difficult to detect whether they struck

with claws or beak, but I think that a side-cut with the sharp-

pointed beak must have caused the wound.



A SMALL AVIARY FOR BEGINNERS:


BEING A FEW HINTS ON CONSTRUCTION.


By W. H. Workman, M.B.O.U.


I must start by apologising for this very feeble attempt to

write about a small structure which I got my man to erect in our

garden, where, I am sorry to say, space is rather limited ; but

the following notes, written round the photograph, may I hope

help others like myself, unexperienced amateurs, to erect or get

erected, a structure which will keep the birds in and water and

mice out.


I have a great belief in making some sort of a drawing

to work from ; this is quite an easy matter, as it does not require

any art, only common sense and ruled lines. The first thing to

do is to measure your ground to see what size of an aviary you

can put down ; you will have to remember that your aviary will

look ever so much larger in reality than on paper. So now sup¬

pose you have measured your ground and decided what size your

inside part is to be and what size your flight. You will then be

able to draw your ground-plan, after which you should draw an

elevation or front view and then an end view. A tradesman will



