88 PONDS, PADDOCKS, AND AVIARIES 



1 ' A ugust 26th, 1894. 



u My most interesting live-stock acquisitions of late 

 have been Hyrax capensis, a batch of Caccabis melano- 

 cephalus from Aden, and a splendid Grus carunculata^ the 

 one species that was lacking in my collection of cranes." 



" May zoth, 1896. 



" I thank you very much for your most welcome 

 congratulations on the important addition to our vivaria,* 

 and the neat and suitable label for the recent acquisition. 

 If I thought that your label would inspire an ornitho- 

 logist's tastes, I would try and persuade the happy mother 

 to attach it permanently to her infant, but there is another 

 and sterner lady in temporary possession, who would, I am 

 sure, reject any such suggestion." 



" May 3o/7z, 1896. 



"Thank you for yours of the 28th. I sent you no 

 ' harpy ' in the usually accepted sense of the term, but 

 a fine old white-bellied sea eagle (Haliaetus leucogaster]^ 

 sent to me some four or five years ago from Melbourne, 

 with a younger bird of the same species, which still 

 survives. I am very glad that, as cruel fate snatched her 

 from me, she is acceptable to you. 



" I told Cosgrave on Friday to send you the remains 

 of a burro wing-owl, bred here last year. I believe that 



1 To the Rev. Canon Tristram. 



2 To the same. 



* Birth of a grandson, May 8th, 1896. 



