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just clasp it ; and I consider it advisable that a thinner pole 

 should be placed above, and two thicker ones below, facing 



CAGE FOE, SINGLE BIRD. 



each other, or vice versa. The door should close in a 

 downward- direction • the drawer should always be made 

 of metal, and had best be closed by a descending lid, so 

 that, while being cleansed or fed, the bird cannot escape. 

 The feeding and drinking- vessels will be best placed in re- 

 volving projectures from which the food can- ^^^^^ 

 not be strewed about. In order to avoid the 

 room getting dirty, a small bath-room has If |S|K 

 been constructed, which is temporarily j f IB 

 fixed to the cage, and the drinking-vessel is t^ 1 ™ 

 so arranged that the bird is unable to use drinking 

 it for a bath. The varnish should con- vessel. 

 sist of harmless lacquers, which must dry in so thor- 



