. Bird notes . ^deserved a place. It was pleasing to note the great improvementsmade in the staging of the British Birds and theirHybrids. A few years ago and there were but a fewpioneers in the art of artistically staging a BritishBird. Now the great majority of exhibitors havefollowed in their footsteps, and smashed up their olddirty cages. The small minority that remain willhave to follow suit—they will never win until they ^be Ikinofiebcr. By J. H. ^ ^/Jl BIRD very properly excluded from the and list of British Cage Birds, is theIJ^ subject of this paper, the
. Bird notes . ^deserved a place. It was pleasing to note the great improvementsmade in the staging of the British Birds and theirHybrids. A few years ago and there were but a fewpioneers in the art of artistically staging a BritishBird. Now the great majority of exhibitors havefollowed in their footsteps, and smashed up their olddirty cages. The small minority that remain willhave to follow suit—they will never win until they ^be Ikinofiebcr. By J. H. ^ ^/Jl BIRD very properly excluded from the and list of British Cage Birds, is theIJ^ subject of this paper, the Kingfisher; which,^ as Mr. Frostick says in his booklet, is painted with natures glorious tints that no human hand couldapproach. Poor little fellow! because he is dressedin gorgeous arra}- he is hunted and hounded frompillar to post, even to his death. By whom ? B} somelazy pot hunter, whose only object is slaughter andto have his poor little inanimate carcass stuffed, andsetup in a glass case in the most unnatural style, orperhaps sold to some ignorant curiosity-monger for ashilling. What harm does he do? He simply liveson a few little fish that are of no service to man asfood, although some of my gamekeeper friends, whoseduty it is to watch trout streams, think trout generally hatch out about the same time asthe Kingfisher is rearing its young, viz., in the monthof May or June. I have always tried my best
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