CONTENTS. 



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Introduction 165 



Traffic in domestic birds 166 



Traffic in foreign birds 168 



Number of birds imported 168 



How birds are secured 169 



How birds are shipped .'. 170 



The retail trade in birds 171 



Species imported 171 



Canaries 1 72 



Parrots 174 



European birds 176 



Oriental birds 176 



African birds 178 



Australian birds ' 178 



Birds from South America, Mexico, and Cuba ' 179 



Birds bred in captivity 179 



Opportunity for American enterprise 180 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Plate VIII. Methods of shipping and testing cage, birds 170 



IX. Lady Gould finch 178 



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