Fancy Birds, &c.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6241, 18 May 1888, Page 3

Fancy Birds, &c.

♦ THE JAMRACH OP CHRISTCHURCH. Mr W. Young, bird fancier, of Colombo street, has just completed certain necessary alterations in his premises for the better accommodation of his large' stock and the service of his numerous customers. The large stock in question is now well worth a few minutes' inspection. To begin with the birds. Mr Young has a large family of parrots and cockatoOß, many-hued and shrill of tongue, whose fluency of speech Jb great, and the correctness of whose moral education is guaranteed. Of pigeons there is an almost endless variety, and Mr Young reels off such names as Kites, Nuns, Fantails, Tumblers, Pouters, Jacobins, Barbs, White Owls, and Beards, as examples of a few of the different sorts he keeps. Of all colours and breeds they seem, from the peacock-like Fantail down to the sober-looking little Nun. Besides a large collection of all sortis of songsters and domestic fowls, Mr Youxg's taste runs to quadrupeds ; and dogs tor gunning, fancy dogs, and house dogs arc kept in stock. A pair of bright-eyed, timid little kangaroo rat 3 are a curiosity not often seen here, and in another pen are a couple of diminutive wallabies, who seem to take to captivity very kindly. An active specimen of the monkey tribe holds court by himself. Mr Young haa not yet received all his stock, of which, by the/way, a flying fox is part, but he was not on view, as his box was not in a sufficiently advanced state for him to receive visito.».s. Mr Young expresses his confidence in fiio future of the wild beast trade, and is j>repared, if the Canterbury public only /give him a chance, to become a second Jamvach. He states that he expects at an earir date to receive a shipment of kangaroos., emus, and Australian native bears, and, that on their arrival they will, to use a trado phrase, " move off rapidly."