Wire-netting for aviaries should be of the best quality, and well galvanized.
While the habit of keeping birds in cages dates from a very remote period, it is probable that structures worthy of being termed aviaries were first used by the ancient Romans, chiefly for the process of fattening birds for the table.
The majority of wild birds, from whatever part of the world they may come, will breed successfully in suitable aviaries providing proper nesting sites are available.
The aviaries were constructed of slats instead of wire, so as to furnish greater protection.
The aviariesshould have two to three square feet to a bird and should be from six to ten feet in height.
When the imported birds arrive in port, they are hurried immediately to the importing houses, or to the different quiet aviaries in the German quarters, where experienced bird raisers take them in charge.
Those aviaries and fish-ponds of the grandees were of course, as a rule, a very costly indulgence.
XVII-24] The Fannian law unfortunately came, and, as we have before observed, brought impediments to these beautiful results by interdictingaviaries and skilfully prepared pastes.
The curious reared them inaviaries with other rare birds.
XX-47] Magnificent aviaries were soon seen in all rich Roman villas; they were filled with thrushes; and the multitude of these birds became such that they furnished a plentiful manure for the land.
These are the kinds most often seen in aviaries and at poultry shows.
Some persons have endeavoured to make it breed in large aviaries in the middle of gardens, but I do not know that it has ever succeeded.
Canaries pair not only among themselves in our aviaries and cages, they also form connexions foreign to their species, and, provided the analogy is not too remote, produce fruitful mules.
I have bred in the same aviaries many pigeons of different kinds, and never reared a single bird of an impure strain.
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