box-cage

"Behold the wild chicken-eater of the woods!" cried Ben, as he pulled aside a blanket from another wooden box-cage.

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus Laura Lee Hope

In its large box-cage or prison, where it could see nothing but the tree above it, it was tame, and would at times frisk playfully about my hand and strike it gently with its forefeet; but the moment it was liberated in a room, or let down in the grass with a string about its neck, all its wild nature came forth.

Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers John Burroughs 1879

And uncomely withal: a neutral-tinted mite, almost lost in his immense box-cage of hinoki wood, darkened with paper screens over its little wire-grated windows, for he loves the gloom.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877