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Correspondence



M. DELACOUR’S NEW ESTATE


Dear Dr. Renshaw, —I am glad to tell you that I have got a new

country seat in Normandy, the Chateau de Cleres (Seine-Inferieure)

between Rouen and Dieppe.


I shall attempt immediately to build aviaries and arrange the park

for birds. There is running water and a lake of about three acres,

quite convenient for Waders and Waterfowl. I hope to have ready

for next spring a bird gallery, two bird-rooms, twenty aviaries with

heated shelters, and twenty enclosures, as well as larger paddocks for

Ostriches, Rheas, Cassowaries, and Cranes.


I think it will be a good beginning, and hope to improve it later on.

I cannot possibly pretend to keep at once the same number of birds

as I used to do at Villers-Bretonneux, owing to the awful prices one has

to pay for everything nowadays.


Cleres is only 25 miles from Dieppe ; I hope that it will be convenient

for British aviculturists to stop there on their way to the Continent.


Yours very sincerely,


Delacour.



