BASKETS FOR TllANSPOUT. 



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lifting every paclvage, are certain to catch it np Kniklenly Ij}- 

 one sidCj and tlie birds are often severely injured by being- 

 suddenly and violently thrown against the opposite one. 



The consideration fif the liest means of arrano-inw for the 

 transport of birds over long distances and liy shipboard is 

 given at length in the Appendix, 



The vignette represents the head of a. lieu pheasant with 

 a singular beak, the upper niandiljle having passed between 

 the rami of the lower. The bird was found dead fr(jni 

 starvation. It is evident that the deformity was caused 

 by tlie bird flying against a branch, the fjlow Ijcnding the 

 upper mandible and causing it to pass through the lower. 



