Buenos Aires 



and beautiful ; and the flesh is palatable, quite as good 

 as mutton, so I am told. Why in fact should not a 

 multitude of other creatures, which now only exist in 

 a wild state, be domesticated instead of being simply 

 exterminated? What a dreary world this is going to be 

 a thousand years from now, when, at the present rate 

 of destruction, the only things left upon the surface of 

 the globe capable of motion will be machines, bugs, 

 chickens, cows, sheep, and asses the latter principally 

 of the two-legged variety ! 



The aviaries in the Zoological Garden at Buenos 

 Aires are especially worthy of remark. I have visited 

 every zoological garden in Europe and North America, 

 and I am certain that in none of them are there any 

 larger enclosures for birds than those which have been 

 provided by Serior Onelli. This is as it should be. 

 The largest of all the raptorial birds is the condor, and 

 captive specimens in their own broad land should have 

 an opportunity to stretch their great wings, and al- 

 though unable to soar into the blue as they do in their 

 native Andes, they should not be cooped up and con- 

 fined in the narrow bounds usually allotted to such 

 creatures elsewhere. It seems that the learned Director 

 of the Garden in Buenos Aires has felt this fact, and 

 the vultures, eagles, and hawks in his collection have 

 a chance to fly, not merely to flap their wings. One of 

 the birds which I was especially glad to see was a 

 specimen of the harpy-eagle, a magnificent fowl, in 

 splendid plumage, with great startling eyes. Its 

 crested head gives it a regal appearance, and of all the 

 birds of prey it is the most truly imperatorial in mien. 

 The white-headed eagle which we have adopted as our 

 'national bird" is not for a moment to be compared in 

 grace and nobility of appearance with this fierce robber 



