ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 99 
LION AND LIONESS 
With no hinderance except a clipped wing, such 
birds could live normal lives, and hunt, display, 
mate, and rear their young much as they might 
in their native wilderness. On the largest pond 
in the park, swans and other swimmers lived, 
with no fences whatsoever to restrain them, and 
on the surrounding shores they raised full-sized 
broods. 
Some of the birds which I noted in runways 
or cages distributed through the park are the 
following: Ostriches; emus; rheas; peacocks 
and other pheasants; numerous varieties of do- 
mestic fowls, including “frizzly” chickens; tina- 
mous of several kinds; hawks, caracaras, and 
owls; a large number of magnificent macaws. and 
many parrots and parakeets; a moderate ag- 
gregation of passerine birds; and a group of 
eight or ten Andean condors. It is not generally 
realized, perhaps, that the condors habitually 
fly down from the lofty mountains to the coast, 
and that they can be captured rather easily near 
Lima. I saw as many as twenty of them to- 
gether on one of the guano islands, and more 
than one of the superb creatures flew so close to 
me that I could almost have touched them 
with a cane. 
Within the water-bird enclosures, which I 
have already mentioned, were Humboldt pen- 
guins ; herons ; ibises; Andean flamingos; mute 
and Australian black swans; ducks and geese of 
at least a dozen species; coots; pelicans, includ- 
ing the exquisite pink-white form of western 
Asia; Old World storks and marabous, and 
South American jabirus; and a beautiful selec- 
tion of cranes—American, Asiatic, and African. 
Although the assemblage of water-birds was 
the best that I ever had seen. ‘The individuals 
seemed entirely free from a sense of restriction 
or self-consciousness, and I well remember a 
pleasant morning spent in watching them, while 
coots and teals tipped-up in the sunlit pools, rails 
slunk through the clumps of tropical reeds, 
demoiselle cranes danced skittishly for 
other's amusement, while herons raised the 
gauzy plumes of their bridal veils, and a solemn 
trio, composed of a wood ibis, jabiru, and Peru- 
vian pelican, held a long-winded confabulation 
at the border of a pond. 
each 
In September, the European white storks were 
courting, showing that they were amenable to 
changing their seasonable customs after crossing 
the Equator. They were all taking part in a 
woodpecker-like chorus by rattling their bills, 
sometimes holding their heads and necks upside 
down along their backs during the performance. 
By the middle of October they had built bulky 
nests of fagots on bridges crossing the brook in 
their enclosure, and they subsequently raised 
broods of delightful little storklets, which, of 
course, remained long in the nest, and seemed 
very helpless and infantile when compared with 
the lively chicks of the demoiselle cranes. 
Aside from the “zoo” birds, the Lima park is 
the home of a wild avifauna of much interest. 
Two or more species of doves fly into the en- 
closures to feed with the captive birds, and 
