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Foreign Cage - Birds. By C. W. Gedney. (The Bazaar . Offiee.)-311r. Gedney's

introduction bespeaks at once the reader's favourable atten- tion. It is evident that he knows his subject well, and that any one wishing to keep birds (and this means also willing to give his personal attention to them) could not do better than take this little volume as his guide. The book boforo us is Volume L, and treats of " Parrakeets, parrots, cockatoos, Tories, macaws, ago The author has a way of observing his feathered pets which makes what he writes often amusing and interesting, quite apart from any question of keeping the animals themselves,