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Good onci Jh(i Pnhif.s !>i Mi/ Avinries. 
brilliantly i)iii'e scarlet for tlio first twelve months. It gradu- 
ally <-hanges hy tlu- ai'rival of scarlet feathers replacing the 
brick-red ones. The young cocks soon begin to sing. I 
unfortuiuitely lost one young- one from jtneunionia, and the 
hen bird develojied vertigo and paral.vsis of the legs, although 
she could fly pei-fectly and looked fit. ^^■lu■n life became a 
burden to hei' I l)it)uglit her indoors, treated her medically, 
but al! of no avail. One morning I took her from the cage — 
she was not an atom frightened— wrapi)ed her tenderly in a 
cloth and sent hei' to the Xevei'-never-land. 
She was a handsome bird and it upset me horribly 
having to do it, l)ut I am sure it was Ivind. Now, T have two 
lonely cocks and no hen. Both cocks sing theii' loudest as if 
to call from the great woods, near by, a mate; but they (;all 
in vain; foi- sing they never so sweetly, no hen is forthcoming 
and it lof>ks as if they, too, will have to reach the Never-never- 
land before there is an echoing answer to love's old sweet song. 
The theme id' the widowed one is " Memory, fond 
memory, when all tilings fade we fly to thee," and with that 
he mingles that heartbroken beseeching prayer: 
But O '. I'or thf (otieh of a vani.'^li'il hand, 
And the soniid of a voiw that is .still.' 
Thus he sings on, a i)athetic little figure, expectant, 
waiting" and longing-, hut like a ti'ue Cardinal, i)roud, lonely 
and dignified. 
To be continued . 
♦ 
Good and Bad Points in My Aviaries— Failures 
and tlieir Lessons. 
By Wm. Shore -B.mly. 
Continued f/o/n page 123. 
The next spring I still further increased my accommo- 
dation by ]iutting yet another aviary up and on a still larger 
scale, vi/,.: TUft. x 40ft. x 8ft. high; this height I consider 
the best for all except the ver.y largest birds. A small shel- 
ter was erected at one end. I planted this enclosure with the 
usual shrubs and plants, and also sowed a good portion of it 
witli wneat. A pond at one end fed from the stream keeps 
