The Natural History of Cage Birds - Their Management, Habits, Food, Diseases, Treatment, Breeding, and the Methods of Catching them

This text contains a thoroughly comprehensive and detailed treatise on the subject of cage birds, including information on their management, habits, diet, ailments, treatment, breeding, and the methods of catching them. An extremely complete and informative handbook that promises to provide information on every subject and problem that could be of interest to a keeper of cage birds, this antique text is of value to the amateur and seasoned keeper alike, and constitutes a great addition to any collection of avicultural literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Habitations of Tame Birds', 'Food of Tame Birds', 'Breeding of Tame Birds', 'The Pip', 'The Rheum', 'Asthma', 'Atrophy', 'Consumption', 'Costiveness', 'Diarrhea', 'The Bloody Flux', 'Obstruction in the Rump Gland', 'Epilepsy', 'Tympany', 'Disease in the Feet', 'Sore Eyes', 'Tumors and Ulcers', et cetera. We are proud to republish this book here complete with a new introduction on aviculture.