HIS NOTES ON THE LILFORD COLLECTION 2o3 



cause. She is now so accustomed to solitude as 

 regards her own species, that I should hardly 

 like to introduce a younger and weaker bear of 

 either sex into her company. It is perhaps 

 worthy of note that this bear is particularly fond 

 of the leaves of the elm, but either wholly 

 rejects or shows no liking for those of any other 

 of our common trees. 



' My collection of mammalia is small. 

 Perhaps the most interesting of this order of 

 animals to the general public now living at 

 Lilford, would be the Buffed Lemur from 

 Madagascar, a beautiful nocturnal animal allied 

 to the family of monkeys, with fine long black- 

 and-white fur. Two Collared Fruit-bats have 

 been here some years, but as these beasts spend 

 the whole day hanging head downwards from 

 the top of their cage, I can hardly expect that 

 the ordinary visitor should care much about 

 them ; their bodies are, roughly speaking, about 

 the size of a moderate-sized common rat ; the 

 outstretched wings would measure about three 

 feet, perhaps more, from point to point. This 

 species breeds annually in the Zoological 

 Gardens, whence I procured my specimens. It 



