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HINTS ON CAGE-BIRDS. 
The Quaker Parrakeet requires a very strong aviary; it can 
easily bite through half-inch wire netting. It builds an enormous 
nest of twigs, and should have a heap of brushwood supported 
upon rough branches in which to build. 
For Bndgerigai’s small log nests or cocoanut husks answer very 
well, as they do also for Lovebirds ; but the latter require small 
shavings of wood or bark, which they place at the bottom of the 
nesting receptacle as a bed for their eggs. They feed their young 
on seed only, whereas the larger Parrakeets do better if supplied 
daily with a saucer of soft food when breeding.* 
To breed most of the Doves successfully, an outdoor aviary with 
plenty of cover is necessary ; branches with Virginian creeper, ivy, 
wild clematis, or something of the kind trained over them, should 
be fixed up in the corners, or at the back, and plenty of twigs, 
roots, plant stalks, and grass-stems supplied; then perchance you 
may do well. Some Doves, such as the common Barbary Dove, 
the Half Collared and Senegal Turtles, the Necklaccd Dove, and a 
few of the semi-domesticated foreign pigeons, will lay in boxes half 
Log-Nest fob Parrakeet. 
filled with bran or sawdust, and rear their young without cover, in 
ordinary large aviaries, provided they are not disturbed by other 
birds; but as Doves are the most quarrelsome creatures when 
associated with others of their kind, success will be more certain if 
each pair be kept in a separate aviary. 
* Mr. Seth- Smith, however, says that scalded bread and green food are of 
great assistance to these little Parrakeets. 
