I don't know about Australia generally; my parents' set is unmistakeably an American edition. It's nearly as old as Dad, and he has American relatives, so that probably explains it. (I didn't think to actually ask him, you notice.)
"A Bird Cage With Tassels" is in volume 4 of the 1954 edition, under "Animal Friends" -- and that's something of a relief, because I'd been dreading finding it under "Tales From Other Lands", which would have been a bit much on top of everything else.
Though speaking of the everything else, it turns out quite a lot of it didn't make it into the Childcraft anthology, because they left the first half out and picked it up at the first appearance of the little brown bird. So we're spared the story of Princess Yellow Butterfly and most of the fat yellow courtiers and all the boredom-shaming. (The show-stopping descriptions of his dinner and his bed made it in, though.)
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"A Bird Cage With Tassels" is in volume 4 of the 1954 edition, under "Animal Friends" -- and that's something of a relief, because I'd been dreading finding it under "Tales From Other Lands", which would have been a bit much on top of everything else.
Though speaking of the everything else, it turns out quite a lot of it didn't make it into the Childcraft anthology, because they left the first half out and picked it up at the first appearance of the little brown bird. So we're spared the story of Princess Yellow Butterfly and most of the fat yellow courtiers and all the boredom-shaming. (The show-stopping descriptions of his dinner and his bed made it in, though.)