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similarly  as  regards  its  position.  As  a  breeding  cage  we  have  not  found  it  a 
success,  though  we  have  bred  successfully  in  it. 
Paradoxical  as  it  may  seem,  this  is  nevertheless  true.  Our  experience  is  that 
as  an  open  wire  cage  it  will  prove  a  success  in  any  place  which  is  really  suited 
to  a  cage  of  this  description — the  qualifications  of  such  a  place  we  have  just  now 
given — but  that  each  cage  requires  to  be  set  apart  for  a  single  pair  of  birds  to 
ensure  a  fair  chance  of  success.  It  may  be  argued  that  by  keeping  in  the  wire 
slides  which  are  provided  with  each  cage  to  make  it  into  a  three-compartment 
cage  it  should  be  possible  to  run  three  pairs  of  birds  in  it.  But  in  this  case 
practical  experience  will  rarely,  if  ever,  confirm  the  theory. 
Endeavour  to  utilise  the  full  limits  of  the  cage  in  this  manner  and  the 
probability  is  that  as  soon  as  the  hens  have  gone  to  nest,  assuming  things  run 
as  smoothly  as  one  desires,  the  cocks  will  devote  their  time  to  flinging  challenges 
at  each  other  through  the  partitions,  and  in  the  more  excitable  subjects  this  will 
THE  CRYSTAL  PALACE  TYPE  OF  INDOOR  AVIARY. 
