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My pets

Chapter 32: Transcriber’s Notes
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About This Book

The author recounts personal experiences maintaining an aviary and other small pets, presenting episodic chapters on owls, robins, mockingbirds, pigeons, canaries, rabbits, rats, hummingbirds, and more. Each chapter mixes practical advice on feeding, housing, and breeding with lively observations of individual animal behavior and temperament, amusing mishaps, rescues, and the challenges of raising young. The collection emphasizes compassionate, hands-on care, patience, and the varied personalities of animals, offering both instructive tips and affectionate vignettes for readers interested in pets and birdlife.

Transcriber’s Notes

Illustrations have been moved so they do not break up the paragraphs.

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.

The following corrections have been applied to the text:

PageSourceCorrection
67 ... her some gunineapigs to play ... ... her some guineapigs to play ...
100 ... one?” a asked. ... one?” I asked.
100 ... picked up I strange ... ... picked up a strange ...
113 Their appetities amused ... Their appetites amused ...
150 SUKEY AND HER FOSTER PIGEON SUKEY AND HER FOSTER-PIGEON
159 I took here there, ... I took her there, ...
165 “I tried her ... I tried her ...
199 ... and sunroom, where ... ... and sun-room, where ...
205 ... am here,” I am ... ... am here, I am ...
219 ... the French voyons!” ... the French “voyons!”
230 ... to get accquainted with ... ... to get acquainted with ...