Excerpt from British Birds for Cages and Aviaries: A Handbook Relating to All British Birds, Which May Be Kept in ConfinementIt is not civilized nations only who have kept birds there is scarcely a tribe of painted savages among the palm-trees of the Islands in the Pacific, that does not tame and train Cockatoos and other Parrots, and keep them fastened to perches and stands, for their own amusement. The writer, however, is not concerned to defend the practice of keeping birds, for he is convinced that it is not only lawful but laudable, and as he has done it in the past, he sees no reason why he should forbear doing it in the future, but there is keeping and keeping, and it will not be his fault if the readers of these pages are not properly instructed in the art of managing tame birds correctly, as well as made acquainted with the species best adapted for domestication.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.