CONTENTS 
Arrangement of Eggs or 
Nests - - - 78, 70, 80 
Best Food for Rearing Birds 27 
Birds Dying Voluntarily - 48 
Birds’ Nesting - - - 75-78 
Blowing Eggs - - - 78 
Breeding, Arrangements for 35-42 
,, Hybrids - - 59-64 
Box-Cages - - - - 12 
Boxes for Seed - - - 23 
Cages and Aviaries - - 11 
Cages, Economical Form for 16 
Catching Birds - - - 69-75 i 
Character of Perches - - 13, 14 | 
Draw-Trays for Cages- - 16 
Drinking- Vessels - - - 14 
Easiest Birds to Rear - 27 
Education of Eye Necessary 76 I 
Evils of Bird-Lime - 70 
„ Over-anxiety- - 48 
,, Over-crowding 13 
Examination of Nests - 45 
Experiments with Seeds - 24 
Hand-Rearing Birds - 27-30 
How Birds Build - - - 52, 53 
How to Feed Birds - - 22-26 
Illness and Wounds - - 47-50 
Important to Taxidermists 46 
Impossible Mules - - - 63 
Instinct in Birds - - - 44 
Intelligence of Wagtails - 29 
Jumping to False Conclusions 44, 45 
Meaning of Terms - 50 
Meat Dangerous - - - 2S 
Migration of One Sex - - 31 
Need of Patience in Taming 57 
„ Warmth for Young 
Birds - - - 30 
Packet-Seeds Dangerous - 25 
Passions of Birds - - - 47 
Physic to be given is Moder- 
ation ... - 48 
Real Causes of Rarity in 
Birds .... 20 
Sand for Cage or Aviary - 13 
Sexual Differences - - 30-34 
Showing Birds - - - 50-52 
Studying Habits - - -44-46, 52 
Suitable Sizes for Cages - 12 
Taming Birds- - - - 53-57 
Teaching Birds to Talk, &c. 64-60 
Unsuitable Cages - - - 11,12 
Uses of Bird-Shows - - 51 
Value of Guide Books- - 11 
Various Traps - - - 73-75 
,, Nets ... 70 
Warmth Important for Sick- 
ness .... . 49 
What Birds to Keep 
Together- - - 17,18 
Where to Get Birds - - 18-22 
Wholesale Mule-Breeding 63 
Wild Biiids’ Protection Act 18 
