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refused to quit his deceased parent. This being noted, he was captured by 

 a noose swung over his head and one fore limb, from the ship, and hauled 

 on board. For some days the captive was kept tied to a ring-bolt on deck, 

 and refused food altogether. Subsequently he was induced to swallow 

 thin slips of boiled pork, and was thus fed until the vessel reached the 

 Shetlands, when a supply of fresh mussels was provided for his use. A 

 large box with openings at the sides, and the animal secured therein, was 

 brought safely into Dundee. From that port to London the walrus 

 was conveyed in the steamer Anglia under the care of the Society's 

 Superintendent. 



The animal had very short tusks, and Bartlett had the skull 



of an adult male, with tusks over a foot long, fastened to a 



tree. " I was much amused one day," he wrote, " by a decent- 



- looking man, who appeared to be taking great interest in and 



studying the beast, asking me if he had shed that skull." ''^ 



One Press correspondent seems to have had a strange idea of 

 a walrus, for he wrote : " At present he has no sign of the for- 

 midable ' horns ' so familiar to Arctic navigators, and which give 

 such a peculiar appearance to the sea-horse.'* 



The first lyre-bird, a female, was acquired by purchase this 

 year, and in 1868 a male was presented by the Hon. John Ellis. 



A young male African rhinoceros, believed to be the first 

 received alive in Europe since the days of the Eomans, was 

 purchased from Hagenbeck, who received it from Casanova. It 

 was in excellent health and quite tame. Till the elephant house 

 was finished, the animal was kept in the giraffe house. Its 

 dimensions on arrival are given as about 6 ft. in length, and 

 3 ft. 6 in, high at the shoulder. In a wing of the same building 

 a young male koodoo was housed ; and as the horns were not 

 developed, a skull with horns was put up in the stall. This 

 method of exhibition has much to recommend it, but it is not 

 easy to decide how far it should be carried. 



In the autumn of this year Lecomte returned from his 

 expedition, the object of which was to procure as complete a 

 living collection as possible of the mammals and birds of the 

 Falkland Islands. He arrived at Port Stanley on August 11, 

 1867, and received valuable assistance from Governor Robinson, 

 who placed a small schooner at his disposal. By the end of the 



* " Wild Animals in Captivity," p. 167. 



