. Bird notes . H. R. FILLMERS a Photograph by Dr. C. S. Simpson. \ Ground Plan of H. R. FILLMERS :-quarter of an inch to a foot. To face page 225. 225. flDv> ©utDoor Hviarv. By H. R. Fir^T^MER. v^Y/^Y aviary is a very unpretentious building —I I / and I am far from holding it forth as aI -^C/* model. My purpose in writing an account^ of it is chiefly to induce the owners of more ambitious aviaries to follow my example, andgive the readers of Bird Notes particulars of thehouses in which they keep their birds. At the sametime, I think the details of the building of my
. Bird notes . H. R. FILLMERS a Photograph by Dr. C. S. Simpson. \ Ground Plan of H. R. FILLMERS :-quarter of an inch to a foot. To face page 225. 225. flDv> ©utDoor Hviarv. By H. R. Fir^T^MER. v^Y/^Y aviary is a very unpretentious building —I I / and I am far from holding it forth as aI -^C/* model. My purpose in writing an account^ of it is chiefly to induce the owners of more ambitious aviaries to follow my example, andgive the readers of Bird Notes particulars of thehouses in which they keep their birds. At the sametime, I think the details of the building of my aviarymay be useful to those who think of erecting similarstructures. In my garden there is a grass-run for poultry,enclosed with wire netting, and measuring about north to south and about 30 ft. from east to run, and in fact the whole garden, lies on agentle slope towards the south, and is well protectedon the north and east by walls. There are a fewstandard fruit trees in this run, and in the middle wasan old wooden fowl house, of flimsy construction, andthis was used as the nucleus of the aviary. My younggardener first made a concrete floor to
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