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Budgerigar expert I dare not risk trying to translate these names,

but it seems to me that what we call Mauves the Germans know as

Graues, and I can certainly confess that at last I know what a “ Grey¬

wing ” is or ought to be.


E. H.



WATERFOWL AND OAME-BIRDS IN CAPTIVITY 1


Mr. Moody was, for many years, in charge of the magnificent

collection of living birds, chiefly Waterfowl, Waders, Game Birds, and

Bustards, kept by Mr. St. Quintin, at Scampston Hall, Yorkshire.

He had unrivalled opportunities of gaining a knowledge of the habits

of his charges, guided as he was by one who himself had acquired great

skill from his long experience of keeping birds under ideal conditions.

Mr. Moody was quick to observe and to profit by his observations and,

moreover, he kept careful notes. The result is that he has been able

to hand on the results of his long years of practice in bird-keeping in

the form of a book that will be generally acknowledged as of great

value to all who will wish to keep these groups of birds. It is a book

of 240 pages, and in it the author tells of the appearance, habits,

disposition, nesting habits, and so forth of nearly two hundred different

species of birds that have at one time or another been in the Scampston

collection. It is valuable as a record of the large number of species

that that collection at one time contained, but its chief value lies in

the experience gained and recorded.


The last twenty pages or so deal with Aviaries, Foods and Feeding,

Overcrowding, Handling, Treatment of New Arrivals, Packing, Feather¬

clipping and Pinioning, Vermin, Diseases and Accidents. It is a book

that will be invaluable to all who contemplate commencing bird¬

keeping, and even the old hands will find much in it that is useful.

It contains some nice photographic plates.


D. S-S.


1 Waterfoivl and Game-Birds in Captivity, with notes on Habits and Manage¬

ment. By Arthur F. Moody. H. F. & G. Witherby, 326 High Holborn, W.C.

10 s. 6d. net.



