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Aviculture owes the introduction of C. crozettensis to Mr. Searle, of

Capetown. He had a specimen in his aviary for some time, and

eventually sent it as a gift to the Zoological Society ; the bird was

brought home by Captain Armson, who safely delivered it at the

Gardens. On its death it was made into a skin, and was exhibited

before the Society on November 28th, 1867 ; it is probably thio

individual which figures in the British Museum Catalogue as having

been received from Captain Armson. On October 26th of the

following year two more examples from the Crozets were safely

unpacked at the Zoo—gifts from another resident of Cape Town, Mr.

B. L. Layard. To Mr. Layard we owe our earliest knowledge of the

eurious, plover-like egg of the Sheathbill; for no egg of any of the

species was known until he sent to Professor Newton an example which

he had taken on the Crozets. Sheathbills do not appear to have

hitherto bred in captivity ; the study of the quaint little black

nestlings is a domain untrodden and unexplored.


bridge House ,


Sale, Manchester.



THE OCELLATED TURKEY.


By Graham Renshaw, M.D., F.R.S.E.


The little group of early naturalists at the beginning of the

ast century included in its ranks several enthusiastic collectors, and

perhaps the most persevering of them was Mr. William Bullock.

Until recently London possessed a tangible token of his labours

in the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly: for it was built by him to

house his great museum, which contained over fifteen thousand

“ natural and foreign curiosities,” and had taken seventeen years to

amass. The cost of collecting had been £30,000, it was said;

amongst the contributors were Sir Joseph Banks, Lord Dundas,

Colonel Gordon, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Irby, and other well-known

people. In 1820 the collection was sold by auction, and its treasures

scattered far and wide.


Amongst the rarities of the Bullock Museum was a unique

specimen—an Ocellated Turkey—the first ever seen in Europe,



