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fashioned. A Golden Eagle (p. 28) is recorded as " finely 

 preserved in the act of preying on the white hare of Scotland." 

 The specimen is figured by Bullock in his " Companion to the 

 London Museum" in 1812 (plate to p. 41), and did duty for 

 many pictures in popular works on Natural History. Many of 

 us can still remember this Eagle, with its wings outspread, and 

 the bloodstains (sealing-wax) on the stomach of the Hare which 

 it held under its feet. The group was purchased at Bullock's 

 sale for nine guineas by Dr. Leach, and long held a place of 

 honour in the British Gallery of the old British Museum. 



The Proprietor of the Liverpool Museum apparently had also 

 a small menagerie ; he speaks of certain animals which he kept 

 alive, and a Mocking Bird lived for some time with him (p. 32). 

 He gives an elaborate account of the Birds of Paradise in his 

 collection, and in view of the extinction of some of these beautiful 

 birds in the present day by the plume -traders who supply the 

 ornaments for ladies' hats, it is interesting to read that even in 

 Bullock's time ' ' the extreme elegance of the tail-feathers of this 

 bird have made them expensive articles of female decoration." 



The Humming Bird warrants a long descriptive note on its 

 plumage and nest, Bullock's conclusion being as follows : " Such 

 is the history of this little being, who flutters from flower to 

 flower, breathes their freshness, wantons on the wings of the 

 cooling zephyrs, sips the nectar of a thousand sweets, and resides 

 in climes where reigns the beauty of eternal spring." 



In 1807 he visited the Bass Rock and procured several Gannets 

 in different plumages, which he describes (p. 38). 



From the Leverian Museum Bullock appears to have pur- 

 chased a specimen of the Crowned Pigeon {Goura coronata), which 

 " when living, was many years in the possession of her present 

 Majesty, who presented it to the Leverian Museum" (p. 39). 



The Lyre Bird is spoken of as the " Botany Bay Bird of 

 Paradise" (p. 39). 



The " Companion " ends with the following announcement : 

 " In a short time will be published by subscription, in two vols., 

 8vo (dedicated by permission to Lord Stanley), price to sub- 

 scribers \l. 4s., An accurate Description of the Subjects of 

 Natural History, Foreign and other Curiosities, (tc, &c., &c., 

 in the Liverpool Museum, illustrated by upwards of Thirty 

 Etchings, by Howitt, and comprising such Articles of Natural 

 History and Antiquity as have been found in Lancashire and 

 the adjoining Counties." 



In 1809, or about that time, Bullock removed the "Liverpool 



