All Rights Resented. Februaky, 1915i. 
BIRD NOTES: 
THE 
JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB 
An Enthusiast's Aviaries. 
By G. Scott Feeeland. 
It is now some time since our respected Editor asked 
me and in a weak moment I promised to write a few particu- 
lars of my aviaries for the information of my fellow members 
of F.B.C. 
The ground plan speaks for itself as regards dimensions. 
The Shelter. The walls of this are built as follow, 
commencing from the inside: half -inch wire netting, 5—6 
inches of straw, next a covering of felt, and outside weather- 
boarding. The roof is the same with the addition of a second 
layer of felt and finished with corrugated iron. The whole 
of the inside walls and roof have a thin coat of hair plaster 
and arc well lime washed. The walls are covered with na- 
tural perching in the form of pea boughs. The windows 
are double. The flooring is concrete. The doors are lined 
with straw and the whole of the wood— exposed and covered — 
is creosoted, the Iniilding outside being painted brick red. 
The Flight. This is 10 feet high in the centre and 6 
feet at the sides. The frame is of 2-inch T iron, and the 
wire netting— also that in the shelter — is carried down into 
the ground 2 feet. This has made the erection absolutely 
rat proof, and moreover it is also quite mouse proof, as the 
smallest Field Mouse cannot get through the small mesh wire 
netting. This advantage, in my opinion, is well worth the 
extra cost. Before 1 leave this point, to show that the en- 
closures are mouse- as well as rat-proof, I may add they 
have been in use nearly two years, and to-day there is no 
sign of vermin of any description. 
Last winter (1913-14) the birds in the Rock Aviary 
were shut up and during the week or two of very severe 
frost the temperature only once— and this when the ther- 
