THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Ill 



of July 23, and in describing the novelties at the Gardens, 

 the writer said: 



Among these are three young American ostriches {Rhea americana) 

 which have been hatched at the Gardens with the aid of Cantelo's 

 machine.* They are growing very rapidly, and appear to thrive as well 

 under the artificial treatment to which they have been subjected as if 

 they had been produced on the Pampas. They are attended during the 

 day by a little boy, for whom they evince the most lively attachment. 



The second qiiagga to come into the possession of the Society 

 was obtained from Jamrach this year. It lived in the collection 

 till 1872, and was the last example exhibited in England. In a 

 hst of the quaggas that have lived in the Menagerie, given in the 

 Proceedings (1901, i. 165, 166), it is stated that the specimen 

 was "sold to Mr. E. Gerrard, and is now in the Zoological 

 Museum at Tring." There is the best authority — that of Mr. 

 Gerrard himself — for stating that the Tring quagga was pur- 

 chased by him from Mr. Franks of Amsterdam. He remounted 

 the skin, which had been badly stuffed, and sold the specimen 

 to the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



In October, 1851, the Knowsley menagerie stock was sold by 

 auction on the ground by Mr. Stevens. There were about 650 

 lots, comprising over 1,600 animals, of which 345 were mammals 

 and 1,272 birds, representing 94 and 318 species respectively ; 

 207 mammals and 549 birds had been bred at Knowsley, the 

 former representing 39 and the latter 45 species. At this sale 

 the Society purchased 160 animals, representing 62 species, at a 

 cost of nearly £1,000. Among these were four black-necked 

 swans, a species introduced by Lord Derby, who received four of 

 these birds from Valparaiso a few months before his death. 

 They were bought by A. D. Bartlett, on behalf of the Society, for 

 £160. In the copy of the catalogue in the Hanover Square 

 library is a manuscript note to the effect that the swans were 

 " probably 1 male and 3 females." Two were sent to Queen 

 Victoria ; the two retained for the Gardens were a pair, for they 

 made a nest, and hatched out four cygnets in June, 1857 — 

 the first reared in Europe — and another clutch of four in 1858. 



Two birds introduced this year deserve mention — the southern 



♦ This was an early form of incubator, in which the heat was applied from above. 



