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• The show cages are eight inches deep, nine inches high and ten 

 inches long. They are fitted with two perches, and the water and 

 food vessels are fixed always in similar places. A bird, therefore, 

 even though he finds himself in a cage in which he has never been 

 before, still feels quite at home, and can find his seed and water in 

 the dark, his period of study having been passed in an exactly simi- 

 lar cage. These fair sized, yet compact, structures are easily 

 covered by the cardboard coverings with green baize in front already 

 described, which, similarly, are also, of a uniform shape and size. 

 There can be but little doubt that this uniformity of appliances has 

 immense advantages to all parties concerned, including the songsters. 



