Correspondence, Notes, etc.



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“ PELICANS of the WILDERNESS.


Lately Arrived, and to be Seen in a commodious Apartment under

The Great Room,


Exeter ’Change,


In the Strand,


Three Stupendous

LIVING PELICANS,


Two males and a female.


Thefe Birds are fo remarkable in their Nature, as to be recorded

in Sacred Hiftory; they are Natives of the great Lakes and

Rivers of Arabia. They were found, in the City of Belgrade, and

ivere taken by Marfhal Landohn, and by him fent to Vienna as

one of the Trophies of Victory. Their food is Fifh; they have no

offenfive smell. In fhort, three fuch extraordinary fine Birds have

not been feen together in this Kingdom for upwards op Fifty years.

Admittance —One Shilling each.


Alfa, to be Seen, in a Separate Room over

Exeter ’ Change ,


A Moft Wonderful Living Male Elephant,


Lately Arrived in the Rose Indiaman.—Admittance is.


Likewife added to the Menagerie, now exhibiting

in the Great Room as above,


TWO BEAUTIFUL KANGUKOOS,


Male and Female.


Brought over in the Atlantic, the Vejfel in which Governor Phillips

arrived from Botany - Bay. They are remarkably tame, and quite

different from all other Quadrupeds .—


Admittance is. each :— or the Whole to be feen for is. 6 d.


The Guillotine Seen Gratis by thofe who vieiv the Whole.


*4* Foreign Birds and Beafts Bought, Sold, or Exchanged.

Enquire as above. — Alfa, a large Quantity of Piping Bullfinches

from High Germany, and Five Pair of Golden Pheafants, to be

Sold as above.


Printed by J. Hancock, No. 63, Barbican, Six Doors prom

Alderfgate-StreetP


T. H. Newman.



THE PERIOD OF rNCUBATION.


Sir,—M r. Castle-Sloane sends me the following notes on the period

of incubation in certain Doves, which I think it would be profitable to


publish in the Magazine. A. G. Butler.


1904.


Australian Crested Pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes).


Eggs laid May 22nd and 23rd; hatched out June 6th.



