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rates within it, we are able to state that this installation 

 is a complete and gratifying success, even beyond our antic- 

 ipations. 



The Large Bird-House is an L-shaped building, with an 

 all-glass house in its angle. The main hall extends east and 

 west, and it is 60 feet long by 50 feet wide. This great 

 room contains the foreign song-birds, many tropical doves 

 and pigeons, and such tropical varieties and oddities as the 

 great crowned pigeons, tinamous, toucans, giant king-fishers 

 and hornbills. In the great central flying cage there is per- 

 liaps the most remarkable omnimn-gathenim of small tropical 

 birds — swimmers, waders, upland game birds and perch- 

 ers— ever brought together in one cage. The bottom of 

 the L is the Parrots' Hall, 65x30 feet. It contains the par- 

 rots, macaws, cockatoos, and a few other species. 



In the angle of the main building stands a structure al- 

 most wholly composed of metal and glass, which is known as 

 the Glass Court. It was designed especially for North Amer- 

 ican song-birds. The visitor should not overlook the fact 

 that there are cages filled with birds all along both the east- 

 ern and western sides of the Large Bird-House. 



The capacity of this installation as a whole may be judged 

 from the following memorandum of cages: 



APPROXIMATE SIZES OF CAGES OF THE LARGE BIRD-HOUSE, 

 INDOORS. 



Regarding the state of health and spirits of the birds in 

 this building, the visitor must be left to .judge for himself. 

 It is only fair to state, however, that the death rate here 



