This text comprises a comprehensive and easy-to-follow handbook pertaining to the owning of budgerigars, containing information on their health, breeding, and management. The perfect book for both existing and prospective canary owners, this guide contains all the basic information necessary for successful budgerigar ownership and constitutes a great addition to any collection of avicultural literature. Chapters contained within this book include: 'Descriptions of Parrots', 'Housing your Birds', 'Keeping the Birds Healthy', 'Their Breeding and Management', 'Breeding Continued', 'Difficulties of Breeding', 'In-Breeding and its Results', 'Colour Varieties', and 'Ailments and their Treatment'. This text has been chosen for modern republication due to its educational value, and is proudly republished now complete with a new introduction to aviculture.