Visits to Members' Aviaries. 
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one partially assumes that character owing to the growth of 
various creepers through the netting, luit, most have eartlien 
base.^-, no natural growth, with a shelter shed at iKick or side, 
and are plentifully furnished with branches, nest receptacles 
and food hoppers. In some the flights are in front, with the 
shelter at back, in oth(>rs the shelters are at one end, but 
in each case the entire front or end of shelter is open to the 
flight. The aviaries stand on high ground and are very dry 
— the sub -soil being sand and chalk. 
I will put numbers to the dilTerent enclosures, for the 
purposes of convenience. 
No. 1. — This, together with No. 2 and 3 really forms 
one erection, a wire netting partition separates Nos. 1 and 
3, and No. 2 is merely a slip of No. 1. No. 1 contained a 
sort of happy family as follows: — 
Amherst Pheasants, Starling, Hawfinoh, Homer Pigeons, Eng- 
lish Squirrel, and a colony of Guinea Pigs ! 
No. 2 is given up to a very handsome and tame pair 
of the Large Canadian Grey Squirrel — similar to the species 
seen in our London Parks. 
No. 3. This is the aviary proper, in which are 
gathered together a really large and varied series of Fringill- 
idae and Ploceidae. The wire netting of one side of this 
aviary is covered with creepers on the outside, which grow 
through into the aviary, the internal standards are covered with 
ivy, and the netting partition dividing it from No. I, is also 
creeper covered, and though there is no other growing plant 
life, the neatly sanded ground and a handsome pedestal bath 
give a really picturesque effect. The flight and shelter are 
both spacious, and the latter has its entire front open to the 
flight. The cover provided for perching and nesting accom- 
modation consists of dense masses of pine branches and brush- 
wood. I noted herein the following species: 
Canaries. Cape Doves. 
Cutthroats. Hawfinches. 
Combasous. Pintail Whydah. 
Zebra Finrhcs. Paradise Whydah. 
Gold-breasted Waxbills. Orange Weavers. 
Orange -cheeked Waxbills. Ped-billed Weavers. 
Grey Waxbills. Madagascar Weavers. 
Green Singingfinches . Kapeleou Weavers, 
