88 PONDS, PADDOCKS, AND AVIARIES 



^'August 26tk, 1894. 



" My most interesting live-stock acquisitions of late 



have been Hyrax capensis, a batch of Caccabis melano- 



cephalus from Aden, and a splendid Grus carunculata, the 



one species that was lacking in my collection of cranes."' 



" ^fay 20///, 1896. 

 " I thank you very much for your most welcome 

 congratulations on the important addition to our vivaria,* 

 and the neat and suitable label for the recent acquisition, 

 if I thought that your label would inspire an ornitho- 

 logist's tastes, I would try and persuade the happy mother 

 to attach it permanently to her infant, but there is another 

 and sterner lady in temporary possession, who would, I am 

 sure, reject any such suggestion." " 



" May 30M, 1896. 



"Thank you for yours of the 28th. I sent you no 

 ' harpy ' in the usually accepted sense of the term, but 

 a fine old white-bellied sea eagle (Haiiae/us leucogaster), 

 sent to me some four or five years ago from Melbourne, 

 with a younger bird of the same species, which still 

 survives. I am very glad that, as cruel fate snatched her 

 from me, she is acceptable to you. 



" I told Cosgrave on Friday to send you the remains 

 of a burrowing-owl, bred here last year. I believe that 



' To the Rev. Canon Tristram. 



' To the same. 



• Birth of a grandson, May 8th, 1896. 



