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but I brought home, in addition to this Pratincole, a Green-necked

Touracou ( Gcdlirex chlorochlamys) , a Fruit-pigeon ( Treron dela-

landii), three Black Gallinules ( Limnocorax niger), a Crow-

pheasant {Centropms superciliosus) , presented by various donors, all

new to the Zoo, besides other live-stock, although I was sent to

collect earthworms, and of course got them too, both pickled and

living.


I feel that this finale, and this article generally, has a rather

egotistical vein running through it, but I hope this may be pardoned

in consideration of my idea of writing thus, which has been to show

that the keeping of out-of-the-way birds chiefly depends on the wish

to keep them, and that if one will only give one’s mind to it, the

pioneer work of aviculture, though difficult, is not absolutely heart¬

breaking.



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