PONDS, PADDOCKS, AND AVIARIES 79 



Note from " Aviary Record" 



"October 27 th, 1893: Lapp owl, Syrnium lapponi- 

 cum, last survivor of ten from Finland in 1888, died." 



"August i6fA, 1889. 



"I am sorry to say that my black shahin (F. peri- 

 grinafor) died a few days ago from a tumour on the 

 breast-bone. She was moulting when I received her, and 

 going on satisfactorily in that way. We never put 

 her on the wing, as our country is so enclosed and 

 full of high trees that if she raked off in pursuit of 

 quarry she would hardly have found her way back, at 

 all events in this summer-time. She was just a very 

 small, very dark peregrinoid falcon, very docile and as 

 tame and as playful as a kitten." l 



"April 2$th, 1895. 



"The most remarkable additions to my live stock 

 are two of the giant tortoises from Aldabra, the male 

 weighing 346 Ibs., a nice little covey of Madagascar 

 francolins, ten of Tristram's grakles from Palestine, and, 

 lastly, a very fine wild cat from Germany. 



" I am very glad to hear of the young pheasants in 

 TenerifFe. Alfonso XIII. should give you the Grand 

 Cross of Carlos III. I have heard nothing of any 

 Scandinavian owls, except snowy, but I hear that, as 

 usual in a lemming year, the fields are alive with rough- 



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



