3-003-756 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Royal Aviary, near Windsor, 1861. 'The Royal aviary is situated...in the locality of the charming Home Park...The long range of buildings is divided into various houses for the convenience and occupation of the feathered tribe, some of which are of great beauty. In front of the building is a network of wire inclosing a little paddock or run, also having divisions for the separate kinds of birds or fowls: these are nicely paved, and have a strip of gravel on one side, with a patch of grass, so that the birds may amuse themselves in their habitual pickings. There is a broad terrace in front of these, forming a nice walk; beyond this and the aviary is a semicircular basin filled with water, in the centre of which is a fountain. On the opposite sloping sides of this ornamental piece of water are some tame goats, the gentle gambols of which have often amused the junior branches of the Royal family in their hours of relaxation and amusement'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.