A practical guide to the wonderful hobby of birdkeeping. Concentration is on African species of Aviculture. The Purpose of this book is to provide a practical guide to the wonderful hobby of birdkeeping. It provides a coordinated synthesis of up-to-date information researched from many sources, in a form which has seldom been published before as an avicultural work, but with all the wealth of information here presented, it cannot be complete, for despite the intensive field research and captive observations undertaken in Africa, many species are still inadequately known.