Identifier: illustratedbooko00blak (find matches)
Title: The illustrated book of canaries and cage-birds, British and foreign
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Blakston, W. A Swaysland, W Wiener, August F
Subjects: Canaries Cage birds
Publisher: London New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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confinement. In their natural state theybreed in holes of old trees or any other cavity, and all that is required is an appropriate nesting-place. Some like the husk of a cocoa-nut, others a hollowed log of wood. They will layfour to seven white eggs on the bare wood or on a few chips of wood, and hatch them in abouttwenty days, the young remaining about five weeks in the nest. If the nests are not quiteto their taste, the Budgerigars will lay their eggs on the floor of the cage, and there hatchthem. Various breeders have recommended the most heterogenous kinds of food for rearingyoung Budgerigars. Some recommend bread and milk, others ants eggs; others, again, egg-food,&c. I believe that healthy Budgerigars require no such, to them, unnatural food, for I considerthe birds as strictly seed-eating, and believe they will best bring up their young on canary-seed. Intending breeders should be warned against a few obstacles to success. Single pairs Cassell!s Canaries & Cage Birds.
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■ViicL-ntBroolj! EaykSonliOi AMAZON PARROT. G R EY PARROT. Undulated Grass Parrakeet. 435 of Undulated Grass Parrakeets are apt to become too fat for breeding successfully. If a fewpairs are kept together, some spiteful individual amongst them frequently destroys the eggs,and the evil-doer is difficult to discover and to remove. These mischief-makers are alwaysunmated hen-birds. But if a room be stocked with fifty, one hundred, or two hundred Budgerigars,supplied with more than sufficient amount of nest accommodation, no such accidents willarise, and all the birds, which in their wild state are eminently gregarious, will select the chosenhabitations without difficulty, and nest without trouble. The newly-hatched young are queer-looking grey-brown bodies, and become green only when the feathers begin fully to develop.When hatched in nests of hard wood which happen to be too deep, there is danger of theyoung birds over-straining their legs when endeavouring to leave the nest, and ther

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