Pleasures of Aviculture 
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Thoui-;li llicy are nut often on view, they are cliarniin;; amid the 
greenery of a natural aviary. 
Also a pair of Crimson iMnclies, of great beatity and 
interest, showed themselves again and again — I smiletl at their 
tails, all curled as if done up nightly in pai)er, but this l)esi)oke 
not vanity, but persistent incubation, but, alas! no young have 
been reared; yet they are in the finest possible condition. This 
species rightly has a reputation for al)normal pugnacity, but 
there are exceptions to all rules, antl mine are an exeiujjlary pair. 
Photo E. 0. Page. 
Nest of Olive Finch in seeding he^d of docks. 
What of the other birds ? Well, they all passed in review, 
were watched and thought about, and, as with the above, their 
