. Canaries, hybrids, and British birds in cage and aviary. 178 CANARIES, HYBRIDS, AND BRITISH BIRDS The present-day Scotch Fancy show-cajic is ilhistnited on this page. The to]i portion ot t!ie cage is all wire : the bottom and the four corner uprights arc ol' wood cxtendiut;' hall'-way np, finished rff witii a fancy turned bone si^ii-al. The 1o|> portion of the corner uprights is of wire l)assed through the Vtone spiral and forced into the io\> of the wooden upright. In sonic the middle cross-bars are of wood, and in others of wire, with a sliding door at the end. Some have, besides, a
. Canaries, hybrids, and British birds in cage and aviary. 178 CANARIES, HYBRIDS, AND BRITISH BIRDS The present-day Scotch Fancy show-cajic is ilhistnited on this page. The to]i portion ot t!ie cage is all wire : the bottom and the four corner uprights arc ol' wood cxtendiut;' hall'-way np, finished rff witii a fancy turned bone si^ii-al. The 1o|> portion of the corner uprights is of wire l)assed through the Vtone spiral and forced into the io\> of the wooden upright. In sonic the middle cross-bars are of wood, and in others of wire, with a sliding door at the end. Some have, besides, a small door iu the front below the middle bai-. Some of the cheaper kinds are coloured all black. l)ut the better-class cage is made of niahogan\-. either French polished or var- nished, while others have the front liottom eross-l^ar bcautifidly iidaid with various fancy woods. As will be observed, two ])erches are arranged on the cross-bars so that the birds can take a regulated ho]) of about T iuchcs. a characteristic we shall deal with full\' in the chapter on this bird The cage is oblong in sha])e. with the toj) slightly domed. In length it is about or 1(1 inches, 5 or 5\ inches wide, and 11 inches higli at the ends, rising gradually to i:i iuclus in the centre of the dome. ()u this page is also shown a Border Fancy stiow-eage, sinular in sliaiic to the Scotch Fancy, but smaller. The middle cross-bars are made of wire, and drop at. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robson, John; Lewer, Sidney Herbert, 1862-. London : Cassell
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