264 I'isits to }f embers' Az.'iarics. 



and consisted of a meadow partitioned off into the three paddock 

 enclosures, a stream crossed the left side of meadow with a 

 paddock on either side of it. In the far one were fine pairs of 

 Demosille (^ranes (Anthrapoidcs z'irgo) and Horned (ininea 

 Fowl in the very pink of condition. 



In the next were pairs of T.esser Adjutant Storks 

 {Lcptof'tiliis jaTaiiiciis), Black-wing"ed Peafowl (Pa-i'o DJiiticiis). 

 and Upland Cieese (Chlocpliaga magcUanica). 



The peafowl were simply g"or!L;"eous, and a nice little 

 troupe of their prog'eny were picking- up a living-, on their own, 

 en the tennis lawn. 



\ must have a word en passant about the Adjutant Storks, 

 wdiich were one of my private importations, and which I much 

 regretted not having" the space to retain myself — I had a small 

 paddock, 30-40 yards square, I could have given luem, but 

 there was no pond, so I let them most reluctantly, depart for 

 Boyers House, w^here they have done well, being now in full 

 adult plumage and looking " very fine and handsome "' in spite 

 of their vulterine bald heads and necks ; their plumage was 

 spotless, and their colouration beatitiful l^lue-grey, black and 

 white — they are to be found (seen) in every mood from gay to 

 solemn, the sublime to the ridiculous, as also in every posture 

 from dignity to the comic-ridictilous — at one moment advancing 

 \\ith slow step, dignified and solemn mein. the next dancing 

 for all they are worth as if to a full jazz orchestra! Rut 

 enough, instead of writing prose, one needs the pencil of a 

 lightning caricturist, then one could adequately tell their trup 

 story, pages long, in comic pictures! " Not Solomon in all 

 his glory was arrayed like one of these." 



Trulv. he was not ! 



The last paddock contained one of the finest jiairs of 

 Upland (leese 1 have ever seen, and six young Pheasants 

 ( Phasianiis rolchicus). 



