ADDRESS. 



In compiling the following pages, which 

 I now offer, for the first time, to the pub- 

 lic, I have been principally induced by 

 the want which bird-fanciers, and those 

 who delight in singing birds, have long 

 felt, of a cheap, yet comprehensive trea- 

 tise on the rearing and management of 

 British Song Birds. 



As few bird-fanciers require a work of 

 this kind for the purpose of gaining a 

 knowledge of the mere natural history of 



