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An Old-time Naturalist and his Gaests. 



— A pleasing picture is given in Mrs. W. Pitt 

 Bymes's Social Hours with Celebrities of 

 the person and home of Charles Waterton, 

 a famous English naturalist and traveler of 

 the former part of the century, a picture of 

 whom astride an alligator is one of the 

 early recollections of the writer. He had 

 constructed in his house, for the mystifi- 

 cation of his visitors, an odd figure of the 

 missing link; was distinguished by some 

 harmless eccentricities and affectations, and 

 had a wonderfully intimate knowledge of the 

 habits and proclivities of different animals. 

 By the aid of this trait he seemed to be able 

 to entice within his domain any annual he 

 wished. His method was simply to prepare 

 an attractive and convenient lodging for them 

 suited to their taste. It was soon discovered 



and taken possession of by those it was in- 

 tended for. For the accommodation of the 

 starlings on his place he had some holes 

 bored in an old tower, when each was at 

 once occupied and made a nesting place by 

 a family of the birds. " Finding his scheme 

 successful, he next created a couple of tow- 

 ers expressly for the accommodation of these 

 interesting birds, securing them immunity 

 from the inroads of vermin by building them 

 on solid stone pedestals, and with excusable 

 pride he used to show to his guests the suc- 

 cessful results of his ingenious arrangement." 

 Many other birds were induced in a similar 

 way to make their home on his estate. 

 Having a place for their reception, the owla 

 flocked to it at once, and " he soon had owls 

 of various species by contriving such abodes 

 as each according to its special habits pre- 



