3-42 The Aviaries and Birds at Hoddam Castle. 



sea -coast, where they are veiy common, but are also found some 

 distynec up the river as well. Their chief food is fish, etc., cast 

 up by tlif sea, but besides this they frequently go for a hare or 

 yi.uug monkey in true Eagle style. Occasionally too one will swoop 

 down on a dog and once a friend of mine riding along the beach 

 was attacked by one of these Eagles and had the greatest difficulty 

 in driving it olf. Another addition tx) their diet is a most unex- 

 peeled one — a vegetable substance, namely the kernels of the Oil- 

 palm or their rind. Of these they are extremely fond and they are 

 (jften to be seen tearing at the ripe bunches on these palms. EromI 

 this habit they get their usual Mandingo name " Teng-domola-kunc " 

 (kernel-eating bird), and they are also known as " Doo-o kctbi, ■ 

 a name which practically means " Vulturelike Eagle." Many of 

 the natives regard the flesh as excellent " chop," especially at the 

 beginning of the rains in the kernel season. Its general colour 

 is white with black wings barred with white and a black tail 

 with broad white tips to each feather; the face is bare and 

 flash -coloured, the bill grey, the cere and legs dii-ty pink. Iris 

 dirty white. Length of female 24 inches, the male slightly smaller. 

 {To ho Continued.) 



The Aviaries and Birds at Hoddam Castle. 



By Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S., Etc. 

 Concluded from page 315. 



In my opening remarks I said that small birds had 

 occupied but a small place in the Hoddam Castle collection in 

 the past, this however, is now no longer the case, for since 

 my visit, the collection has been enriched by a unique series 

 of Flycatchers, Warblers, Eedstarts, Tits, Chats and Wagtails, 

 also 25 Sunbirds, and many other larger species not hitherto 

 included in the collection— most of them in pairs, in some 

 instances several pairs — thus rare species in the colleiition 

 are now very numerous and cover many families. 



Space only permits of a list of these later additions at 

 this juncture, but many of them were brieily alluded to under 

 "A Unique Consignment," p.p. 201 to 205 of current volume, 

 and to those short notes I must refer my readers. 



Short -billed Minivet (Pericrorocotus brevirosfris). 



Small Minivet (P. perigrinus) . 



Blue-thj'oated Flycatcher (Cyornis rulieculoides) . 



Great-billed Flycatcher (C magnirostris) . 



Tickell's Flycatcher {C. tickelli). 



