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Early Aviculture in the U S. A. by Rae V Anderson Sierra Madre, California Early Aviculture in the U S. A. by Rae V Anderson Sierra Madre, California ViOllture has existed in the U.S.A., A to at least some limited degree, prices, however, they were beyond that time. as long as this countty has been inhab­ the financial abilities of most of the Very few avicultural books or jour­ ited, even before European influence. avian fanciers. nals were available. The few that For purposes of this essay, I will Many of us kept birds at that time were available included: Blakston & restrict the discussion to Aviculture though most, because of financial Swaysland, The Illustrated Book of and Aviculturists whom' I have per­ inability, were required to start with Canaries and Cage Birds, published sonally known. the more common and lowest priced 1877-1880; W.T. Greene, Parrots in Pre-World War II, the 1930s and species. This, in my opinion, was not Captivity, published 1884-1887, price early 1940s, was a time of serious all bad. We gained experience with in 1930 £4.0.0 ($20.00); Arthur C. economic depression in the U.S. The the more common species and sold Butler, Foreign Finches in Captivity, unemployment rate was extremely our surpluses to obtain the prices of 2nd edition, published 1894, price in high. It was a time of "bread lines", a few of the more desirable species. 1930 £3.0.0 ($15.00); David Seth­ very high levels of homelessness and In this way we learned as our flocks Smith, Parakeet~A Handbook to the wide spread general deprivation. slowly grew in size and quality. Imported Species, published 1903, There were of course exceptions. There were of course, some price £3.15.0 ($18.00); Marquess of Some lines of business thrived. exceptions to the above. Some avian Tavistock, Parrots and Parrot Like Due to this (or in spite of it) prices fanciers were owners or managers of Birds, published 1929, price £0.15.0 of everything, including birds, were businesses which were essential even ($3.00); Neville W. Cayley, Australian exceptionally low and most animal during the depression and others Finches in Bush and Aviary, pub­ imports were still by surface rather were able to maintain jobs with lished 1932, and Neville W. Cayley, than by air. There was little consider­ steady incomes. Some of these fortu­ Australian Parrots, Their Habits in ation of endangerment at that time. nate individuals, together with the the Field and Aviary, published 1938. CITES did not exist and none of the smugglers, amassed very large and During the 1950s several new and world's governments restricted exports spectacular collections. very welcome books were published. of their avifauna, with the exception The difficulties and time required These included P.M. Soderberg, of South Africa which imposed an for most of us in that time period to Foreign Birds for Cage and Aviary, embargo on bird exports in the late build a reasonably nice collection published 1956; Jean Delacour, 1920s. Consequently lots of very resulted in many of us developing an Pheasants of the World, 1951, The spectacular bird species were readily exceptionally deep seated and long Waterfowl ~rthe World, 1954; Edward available at what, by present day lasting interest in aviculture. ]. Boosey, Foreign Bird Keeping, and standards, would appear as "give Other problems and obstacles to Parrots, Cockatoos and Macaws, both away" prices. Even at the very low avicultural advances also existed at published in 1956. Robert Stroud ("The birdman of Alcatraz") pub­ lished his book, Stroud's Digest ~rthe Diseases of Birds, in 1943. As most Bird/Cage Information Signs aviculturists probably already know, Stroud did his research on canaries Engraved on zoo-quality laminated UV-resistant plastic. Available in black wi white letters, and wrote the book in his prison cell green wi white letters, or white wi black letters. Also suitable for plant identification. Sizes and Prices: Breeders: Use to keep track ofhatching dates species while serving a life sentence for mur­ 2"x4",1/16"thick' $2.80 .. ' 2" 4" 1/8" th' .' names, acqulSlton costsldates, sources, etc. der (he received the death sentence x, Ick. $3.05 Pet owners: Use to show bird's names hatching dates etc but that was not carried out). The 3" x 6" 1/8" thick' $5.35 . .' . .'.' " ,,' I" . '. Shop owners: Use to show kmds ofbIrds, prices, trammg book is really quite worthless but is 4 x 8 ,1 8 thick. $7.80 capabilities, tricks, etc. of interest simply because of the cir­ Signs made with your text on our computerized engraving machine. cumstances of its creation. Send check for $3.25 Each sign comes drilled wi a hole in each comer for mounting. Most of Stroud's 60 plus years in f?r a sample 2" x~" Gary Wood SOUTH COAST PALMS sign (black wi white ' prison were spent in solitary confine­ letters, 1/16" thick). 960 EI Caminito, Fallbrook, CA 92028 ment at the Federal penitentiaries at Indicate desired text. Phone: (619) 723-1354 Fax: (619) 723-4903 Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas and Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay. At one 46 July/August 1996 point the Prison Bureau decided that He was a very interesting and success­ original Audubon folio) and all of his Stroud should not be permitted to ful aviculturist during his residency in large fine art collection. Cleres was keep his birds but aviculturists on the the U.S. He authored several ornitho­ then b0!TIbed and occupied by outside made so much fuss and logical books. German military forces. The entire applied so much pressure on the Japanese Prince obusuka Taka­ bird and animal collection was lost at politicians that they relented and Tsukasa, though not a regular resi­ that time. After WW II Delacour Stroud was permitted to continue his dent of the U.S., was a frequent visi­ restored CIeres, developed his private work with his birds. I did not person­ tor and successfully raised the zoo again and accepted a position ally know Stroud. Rheinardt's Argus pheasant Rheinardrius with the American Museum of The only good English language ocellatus in 1929. This bird was aturat History, New York. He later journals at that time were Aviculture, unknown in the wild until Jean told me that this was his first joh ever the journal of The Avicultural Society Delacour brought them from Tonkin, for pay. He said that in his socioeco­ (British) and The Avicultural Bulletin, Indo-China. nomic position, johs for pay had the journal of the Avicultural Society Jean Delacour departed this life always been reserved for t)lose who of America. This latter journal was an sufficiently recently for many present needed them. In 1952, he and his "off shoot" from the British day aviculturists to have known him mother moved to Beverly Hills and Avicultural Society. personally. Delacour was born in he became Director of the Lo Aviculturists such as Frank 1890, at the family estate, Villers­ Angeles County Museum of Natural Vanderlip in the Palos Verdes Estates Bretonneux, France. His first aviaries History. (north-west coastal Los Angeles were established in 1906. He had a Delacour maintained a very nice County) were successfully raising "world class" avian collection there at avian collection including softhills, Crowned Pigeons in 1930 and Vance the time Villers was destroyed by the finches, trumpeters, flamingos, etc.; Wright, a smaller aviculturist in EI Germans during WW I in 1918. In at his Beverly Hills home until he Monte, California, was successfully 1919, Delacour purchased a signifi­ became too infirm to continue there regularly hand raising psittacines and cantly smaller (but still huge) home, by himself. He died in Los Angeles grainiverous birds in the early 1930s. the Chateau du Cleres. In 1939 while on ovemher 5, 1985. The Marquess Mita Shiba Hachisuka he was collecting in Indo-China, a At Rancho Sespe, Ventura County, lived in Los Angeles during the 1930s fire gutted the chateau destroying his Calif., Keith Spalding, owner, and but returned to Japan prior to WW II. magnificent library (including his W.E. 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