. Bird notes . in vain regrets, but get on with the subject inhand. ]\1\- next aviaries were my first serious attempt at buildingan aviary, and I had a great deal of advice as to their construc-tion . The result was not pleasing. If you have ever seen afine drawing-room hopelessly cut up and spoilt Ijy being badlyfurnished von can fane: Vvhat these aviaries were like. Tocommence with; they were built against a south wall. Theroof of the shelter slanted from the wall downwards. Theresult was that these aviaries were very dismal, even in realised it when too late. Obviously one ought to
. Bird notes . in vain regrets, but get on with the subject inhand. ]\1\- next aviaries were my first serious attempt at buildingan aviary, and I had a great deal of advice as to their construc-tion . The result was not pleasing. If you have ever seen afine drawing-room hopelessly cut up and spoilt Ijy being badlyfurnished von can fane: Vvhat these aviaries were like. Tocommence with; they were built against a south wall. Theroof of the shelter slanted from the wall downwards. Theresult was that these aviaries were very dismal, even in realised it when too late. Obviously one ought to have eithera top light or large high windows to let in the sun in all itsglory, and not do ones best to discourage it. One candiagrammatically represent what I mean, thus : — r 2 /^(oor op- rLiCH, V J Ui I SOOTH F LIG-HT Now. wherever you put the sun it is obvious that its rays cannever reach one quarter of the shelter, and at its most advan-tageous altitude the sun must necessarily be rising or setting. c o. ^ keminiscences. 201 Hence these aviaries, which were reahy excellently constructed,never pleased me, and much less the birds. Another point, andthat is the ventilation was always bad. But such is theendurance of birds that many did exist for quite a while, evenhere. Bad as it was in this particular, it became hopelessly sowhen yoit wanted to drive in the birds in severe weather or inorder to catch them up. Now, it is an indisputable fact thatwhen birds are driven they invariably either hide in the bushesor fly straight to the top of the flight and as far away from theirl)ursuer as possible. The consequence was that the majorityof the birds always flew on to the wire work marked XY, and onetried to drive them in until the weariness of the flesh took holdof one. In other words, driving in the birds proved a hopelessproposition. The only way to catch them was to keep themsliort of food, then put food in the shelters, and when the birdswent in let the window drop. Once in
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