78 PONDS, PADDOCKS, AND AVIARIES 



" I have a common gull that was picked up in a 

 perishing condition some three years ago, and now lives 

 with flamingoes and other birds, in an enclosure with a 

 circular stone basin through which a little stream of 

 water constantly runs. I have never seen him on the 

 basin except for washing purposes." l 



" October 28^, 1893. 



" October 7th is very late for a hobby anywhere in 

 British waters, still more so off Flamborough, as this 

 little hawk is by no means common to the north of the 

 Trent." * 



" I should be glad to have as many of the 

 Archangelic cats f as you can possibly procure, and am 

 prepared to pay a good price for them." 



" October loth, 1893. 



" I have only one Lapp owl now left, and he also 

 looks droopy. The Ural's egg came to nothing." 3 \ 



1 To the Editor. 



2 To the same. 



3 To E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, Esq. 



* Referring to a Hobby Falcon (F. subbuteo) that had alighted 

 on the rigging of a ship in which the editor was coming from the 

 White Sea. 



t The domestic cat of Archangel is blue in colour and is shaped 

 like the old Egyptian cat. It is also very distinct from our own in 

 its ways. The Editor brought home from Archangel in 1893 three 

 kittens of this kind, one of which is still (1902) thriving, and the 

 mother of a numerous progeny, but not one of them resembles herself. 

 Lord Lilford had one years ago in his rooms in Tenterden Street. 



I See p. 86. 



