Down the Decades: the 1920s
LEVAILLANT’S BARBET MAKES A HANDSOME AND INTERESTING PET
HIS bird makes quite a good subject for confinement, becoming quite tame in a very short time. If kept with other birds they should be fully competent in the art of self-defence, for although not of a quarrelsome disposition, this Barbet’s fine physique and most business-like beak do not commend themselves to weaker species. Having very little desire to fly, it takes most kindly to cage life, and would find all it needed to make life happy in a box type cage about three feet long, two feet high, and eighteen inches deep. Line this cage with cork or fresh bark for preference, with three or four stout branches for perches, and the inmate will show all its woodpecker-like characteristics, and running over this “piece of nature” hammering at it with great delight
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