All Rights Reserved. August, 1918 
BIRD NOTES: 
THE 
JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. 
My Latest Aviaries and the Difficulties of War- 
time Construction. 
By Wkslf.y T. Page, F.Z.S., ktc. 
It has been suggested to me that, with so many of our 
contributors serving' with the colours, and a consequent 
shortage of copy, T should illustrate and describe the aviaries I 
put up after moving to Lingfield. and I am complying with the 
request, though personally, I greatly wish some other pen than 
mine had undertaken the task. 
The aviaries are not yet as complete as T had hoped to 
make them, neither are they quite what I intended on arrival 
here, but several things forced a modification of my plans, viz: 
shortage and costliness of material and the scarcity of labour. 
This necessitated much delay in the beginning, and compelled 
me merely to remodel and slightly increase the aviaries T 
brought with me from Mitcham. and forcing me to use timber, 
that under happier conditions T should have put aside as 
fircii'ood . I was not even able to take all the wood out of the 
old aviaries that had began to decay. However, by cutting up 
the old shelter into sections T was able to contrive a really 
serviceable shelter for my large aviary (No. 4), and to utilise 
three small outhouses as the shelters of the three smaller 
aviaries (Nos. i, 2, and 3), but much labour was involved in 
getting an erection that would not be an eyesore to the garden, 
for here the aviaries must be in close proximity to the lawn and 
house. But I was repaid fully in the end bv an erection which 
fits into its surrounding's, and adds to. rather than mars, the 
general garden effect. T was compelled to erect myself with 
such aid as my brother could give me at week ends and holidav 
periods — the only hired labour I was able to get was the local 
