24 A YEAR WITH NATURE. 



grand creature almost I believe the heaviest bird that flies 

 should have been lost to the Avi-Fauna of our Country. 

 Here we have the good fortune to see the bird in a living 

 state, but as a British Wild Bird it has gone, probably never 

 to return. 



The curious Pelicans, so well known to visitors to St. James's 

 Park, are deserving of more than ordinary notice, and their 

 curiousness and strange antics are very realistically portrayed 



GIANT TORTOISE AT TRING PARK. 



in the photograph with which Mr. Newman has supplied us. 

 In a fateful moment, just as he had got the birds in an 

 enquiring frame of mind, the photographer pulled the trigger, 

 I mean the shutter, and on page 21 is the result. 



It is well known that Mr. Rothschild has driven with con- 

 siderable success a team of Zebras, not only in the country 

 but also in London, and it is interesting and instructive to pay 

 a visit to the Tring Stables and see these exquisitely striped 

 animals; they are beautifully groomed, and as clean as a new pin. 



