All rights referred. October, 1912. 
BIRD NOTES: 
THE 
JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. 
Visits to Members' Aviaries and Birdrooms, 
By Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S, Etc. 
Continued from page 254. 
Mr. Willfoed's Aviaeies: These have been frequently 
described and illustrated in Bird Notes, but the accompanying 
Bird's eye view, of a portion of them, will indicate how they 
have been perfected and what a comprehensive series theyi 
are. Moreover, their interiors have matured, and profiting^, 
by the experience of past seasons, arrangement and re- 
arrangement has been carried to a fine art, and these natural 
out -door enclosures are now practically as perfect as skill can 
make them. 
Mr. Willford is, as is well known, an ardent and skill- 
ful photographer of living birds in the midst of their domes- 
tic life and our pages have again and again been embellished 
with specimens of his skill — the aviaries have been specially 
arranged for this purpose, that the surroundings of the various 
species, engaged in family cares, may be photographed amid 
a perfectly natural environment (see photo of Pheasants 
which roam amid the natural wildness of the Waders' Aviary, 
.elsewhere in this issue), and with Mr. Willford' at present the 
keeping of birds is subordinate to the photography of same. 
The aviaries have not so many inhabitants as was the case 
cwo years ago, but breeding pairs are kept, purposely to 
be photograp"hed performing their domestic duties, e.g., in- 
cubation, brooding and feeding young, etc. Several most 
successful photographs of such scenes were obtained during 
the course of my stay with him, some of which may later) 
adorn our pages. 
While some of the enclosures are merely wilderness, en- 
closures of rampant wild growth — a disused kitchen garden 
