Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Cage and Chamber-Birds: Their Natural History, Habits, Food, Diseases, Management, and Modes of Capture; Translated From the German
Many persons who would find pleasure in keeping birds, are both unable to procure them, and ignorant of the proper method of treatment. Others, while possessing a certain degree of knowledge on these points, are unacquainted with the best and easiest methods. It is for such persons, and not for students of natural history, who are able to refer to more scientific works for the requisite information, that the present volume is designed.
The statements contained in the following pages claim credit and authority, on the ground that they are the result of personal observation and experience. From childhood, I have always been passionately fond of birds; and even now I cannot pursue my literary labours with pleasure and success, unless my room be enlivened with the song of some forty or fifty, which ?utter about me at their pleasure. The reader there fore may, naturally, suppose that I have bestowed considerable attention on the subject, and endeavoured to ascertain not only the easiest, but the cheapest and best methods of preserving my feathered favourites in health. I have only to hope that the success of my attempt to impart information to my readers, may be commensurate with the opportunities which I have enjoyed of collecting it.
It is possible that different opinions may have been formed as to the proper scope and interest of a work like the present. The following remarks will explain the mode In which I have divided the subject.
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