Foreign bird keeping / by Arthur G. Butler.

  • Arthur Gardiner Butler
Date:
[1899-1900]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Foreign bird keeping / by Arthur G. Butler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Preface. gEFORE the present work was commenced there existed no English hand-book dealing with the life-history and treatment in captivity of all the various types of foreign cage-birds. In Germany the bird-lover had Dr. Russ’ admirable and comprehensive “ Hand-book for Aviculturists,” the text of which deals with most of the imported species, both common and rare; yet even this work is perhaps less likely to be helpful in one respect than that to which I have, for the past two years, devoted much of my leisure time, inasmuch as it is not illustrated; it is therefore with, I think, pardonable content that I see the completion of my present attempt to be useful to my generation. There can be no doubt that, with this and the preceding part in his hands, the beginner in bird-keeping will be less liable to the mistakes, losses, and distresses to which we, whose experience is recorded in the pages of “Foreign Bird-Keeping,” have been subjected in the days of our ignorance. Doubtless, education is a fine thing; but, to those with slender purses, the saving of expense to themselves and of pain and death to their pets, is more to be desired; and education may still go on, without these unnecessary aggravations. With this second part my present work concludes: its production has only been rendered possible by the enterprise and forbearance of the Editor, to whom I hope all, who may in any way benefit by its perusal, will be duly grateful. A. G. BUTLER.
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