Do not keep a bird in a room that is painting, or has been newly painted, until the effluvia of the paint is completely gone.

Do not hang your bird over a stove, or above the mantel-piece, or over a grate which contains fire.

Do not put a bird and cage in a window, and then shut it down upon it; there is a draft then through the cage that may be injurious to the bird.

Do not wash your cage bottom, but scrape it clean with a knife, and then put on some fresh gravel; the moisture tends to breed those little red mites, and is injurious to the bird.

Do not keep birds together all winter, which you intend to breed in the spring. They will not do so well as if they were apart.

Do not keep single birds in a room where others are breeding. And do not keep males and females, in breeding season, in a room in separate cages; or you may lose your birds by what is called the pairing fever.