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Pleasures of Az'lcultiire. 
interest of a garden aviary lies in seeing the birds amid the 
foliage, passing in and ont of the bushes, enabling one to 
realise, if only dimly, something of their life history as lived in 
their native wilds, modified only by the limits of the aviary and 
available supplies, nesting material, etc. Well do I remember 
lifting my eyes from my note book after making an entry, 
wondering what new orange-coloured flower that was growing 
in front of a privet bush, and how I had missed seeing it before. 
Best of f»EKiM kobih. 
I got up to ascertain what it could be, when from the tip of a 
tail stem of rudl)eckia there flew my bachelor Zebra W'axbill - 
and from the midst of the privet l)ush hopped Mr. Pekin 
Robi-'' — he had a lovely cradle nest therein, with his wife care- 
fullv brooding a familv of young Pekins; this is cii l^assaiii. and 
gives some idea of the charms and interesting pleasures of a 
natuipllv planted garden aviary, the home of a varied collection 
of alien, wild feathered creatures of the air. 
During the morning while 1 sat and watched, my interest 
was held the whole i>criod, for between 8 a.m. and noon the 
whole of the occupants of the aviary i)assed as in review before 
me. 
Just near the front of the aviary, in full view, was the 
dancing-ground of a pair of Jackson's Whydahs, and at inter- 
