The work of Dr. BECHSTEIN upon CAGE BIRDS has been so highly esteemed on
the Continent that it has passed through several editions, both in the
original and in translations. Besides rendering as faithfully as care
could effect, the interesting details of the author, numerous notes have
been added, as well as several species introduced, which have recently
been kept with success in this country by the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Herbert,
Mr. Sweet, Mr. Blyth, and others. The mode of management also peculiar
to these, and so different in some points from that recommended by Dr.
Bechstein, has been given in detail. It is to be hoped that this
translation may have similar success, and produce similar effects in
increasing the taste for Natural History, which the original has had on
the Continent. It is proper to add, that the drawings of cages, which
illustrate this edition, were selected by permission of Mr. Cato,
Holborn Bridge, from the numerous elegant specimens which his stock
contains.
LONDON,
_November 1837_.
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