| Show BD BIRD D CLUB F HAS TA A S wh W BOARDER h three floors and basement need needed ed to accommodate the feathered pets LIVELY NEW YORK HOUSE wonderfully accomplished parrots and cockatoos Cocka toosi toos temperamental canaries and brilliant black and yellow cals that imitate musical instruments new york quite the most populous boarding house in new york city this summer Is virginia ropes popes bird club at 1 90 west sixty fifth street they rhey counted up to the bird that had arrived the other day and then it took so much time to serve bird teed seed meal worms boiled eggs and baked apples for the little guests that they stopped counting and no one knows how many birds there are now three floors and a basement of them including a bird comic opera troupe it is a very chatty place this bird club and when a reporter dropped in EL gay voice said hello cheerfully and then began in a clear voice to sing eing yankee doodle came to town riding on a pony stuck a feather in ills his bat and called it macaroni the nonchalant reception of a guest was in keeping with the character of the singer who ly 19 one of tile the aristocrats of the club lie he Is s a mexican yellow head parrot a wonderful bird one in worth many thousands of dollars there have never been a dozen so valuable in the country and his mistress would not take any price tor for him polly is patriotic in his musical selections lie he sings Ma marching rhin through georgia and shouts vive la a france and if you knew big mistress you would know where lie he learned the sentiments for he speaks exactly in her voice polly also knows his primer and it if lie he happens to be in a showing od mood he will ask can you spell cat I 1 card can spell cat cat c a t cat ile he will do the same with the word dog and wind up with what does the canary do and twitter and trills brills lie bo will show how the canary sings an acrobatic cockatoo but the talented mexican is 19 not the greatest bird socially in the club it if he Is worth in cold cash at least there is a big white malacca cockatoo coco with it rose tinted crest who ibo Is in the 1000 class and who trots around the floor does a side tracking dance when in a frisky mood and nips tit at visitors feet and really does tile the honors honor of the place it if a vla vh 1 tor puts art an inviting hand down to him 1 he ie Is likely to take a bite in earnest though he rubs his head gently against miss pope when nhen she appears nips her ears and fingers but ever so gently ile he Is a conceited creature and poses for admiration openly he does gymnastic stunts on a chair and to attract your attention arid and show you how bow he does ite calls I hello lello now and again in a voice that Is astonishingly human lie ile can converse fluently in both french and spanish while the club has its greatest number of visitors in summer it Is an all the year round affair and takes in not only boarders but hospital patients birds that have bad manners and others for one reason or another miss virginia pope was the first woman to put the bird club and hospital on the map she has a wonderful fondness for the little creatures birds having been her favorite pets from the time she was ft a lettle girl and she has remarkable inar kable control over them and they seem to have absolute confidence in her when she has taken in a sick bird that needs constant care and warmth she has been known to take it to bed with her and with it lying up close to her throat she has cared for it all night ready to attend to its slightest need birds are temperamental give the birds something to amuse them says miss rope pope especially the parrots clothes pins ping it fl buckle with a strap a key on a ring or a little bell and one parrot has been known to go to sleep with a little china doll in its claw like a child toys keep them from pulling out their plumage birds file aie very temperamental I 1 had one canary that I 1 could not persuade to take a bath it fluttered its wings and appeared nery ery angry and unhappy aery time the bath was brought until one day by chance I 1 brought the water in a very gay col ored little dish I 1 was surprised to see it hop down to it quickly and there was never again trouble with mith that little birds baths the little tramp as I 1 had called it become became a clean little gentleman gentle niall birds go to tha th club sometimes to learn good table manners some of them are very naughty about scattering seed out of tile dishes onto the floor it lg Is a bad habit which can be broken parrots sometimes have not the bath habit because in their native climates there are heavy dews and they tire are not accustomed to the baths taken by smaller sin aller birds A spray butt batt with an atomizer or plant sprayer twice a week keeps them clean and happy birds are subject to all sorts of ills ilia which affect human buman beings they the have indigestion tion it if they have poor seed they are sure to get rheumatism it if their perches are left damp they have a variety of typhoid fever and it Is bad tor for any of them to hang bang in drafts or out of doors and they may maj have different affections of the lungs very ill birds are sometimes given a turkish bath by being fastened to a hot water bag and a cloth placed over them to induce perspiration from canaries to crows canaries of course predominate in numbers in the clubhouse re but there are birds of all kinds hinds including the various talented parrots aside from those already mentioned polly shapard talks rod and also sings yankee doodle there is a panama parrot whose accomplishment Is singing tipperary pe one parrot crows like a cock and of two others mates polly and abe one whistles the merry widow wal waltz tz and the other dances the waltz on his perch there is a big black crow who amed to speak german but cannot now b be e induced to say a word in the language little white love birds with red bills have big round empty coconut shells for nests and very cunning they look in them when they go to sleep at night with little leads heads out at the round opening miss pope haft hafi reason to love cockatoos cocka toos for one of 0 them bob saved her life at one time peeking lier her cheek early one morn morning Dg awakening tier her to the smell of smoke and a fire some of the most valuable birds in the club at present are the brilliant black and yellow cals which can learn the sound of musical instruments and to sound a bugle call one of these in a big roomy cage was baing prepared the other day for a trip to england part of his food was being in sent with nith him seed and meal worms and there were full directions for a further diet of egg chicken apples etc that hat could ile be served to him from the he ships table ile he went off with a messenger ills his future owner being a little english girl an unusual blid baid of distinguished appearance which Is a permanent guest Is a codilla which once belonged to mar galet eniet anglin the actress it if you are selecting parrots they will tell you at the club that the south african Is the best belt imitator and tile the mexican lexicon and south american have the biggest rep ertol res ambulance nce for the hospital the club hospital lias has had its own ambulance a pretty thing that a child would like for it plaything a little covered affair similar to a regular ambulance find and drawn by a tiny horse it was a feature in some of the animal league parades there Is a surgical department to the hospital rod and birds wings and legs when broken can often be set satisfactorily there la 19 also a little bird burying ground out in buffalo where they are sine sille of an resting place two little love birds shared one of these little coffins the first farst had bad been ill and died find and was brought to the club to be prepared for burial and in the meantime its late lied died of grief and loneliness and they were burled together new york does not stand first in the cities of the country in ill its love lore and care for birds miss rope pope say boston ills hns that hat honor philadelphia Is second and this city third new york birds hae bane their 1 eq dow biow e er well cared for birds bird ba have ve their bills alid claws trimmed ev every ery so ED often |
