Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Canaries and Cage-Birds, the Food, Care, Breeding, Diseases and Treatment of All House Birds: Birds for Pleasure and for Profit
But there always will be some sick birds requiring attention, and they must not be neglected; for this reason these pages contain a large number of recipes, many of which have been used for years with success, and are now for the first time published.
The articles on Canaries, Mocking-birds, Parrots, Finches and Nuns, and our native wild birds, have been made very complete; and it is hoped they will prove especially valuable. The directions for mating and rearing many kinds of birds not generally bred here in cages, such as the smaller seed-eating birds, as well as the soft-billed birds, and Paroquets and Parrots, are drawn from the experiences of European breeders of wide reputations, and with due regard to the habits of the birds in their wild states.
An attempt has been made in each article to indicate the peculiar traits of the bird, and this idea has been expanded in the several comparative tables. Buyers unfamiliar with the different birds will find in the tables suggestions which will aid them in selecting desirable specimens.
The black-and-white illustrations of birds have been drawn with care from life subjects.
The colored plates were made under the author's own supervision, and exactly represent in color and outline the subjects portrayed.
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