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male Sudan Giraffe, a Collared Peccary, and an Afriver Eiver- 

 Pig. 



The most remarkable birds on exhibition were two Sun- 

 Bitterns {Eurypyga helias), which displayed beautifully one 

 afternoon. The display of the Sun-Bittern is, I think, one of 

 the most marvellous sights that any human being can be privi- 

 leged to see. Their keeper told me that these two Sun-Bitterns 

 have lived here for eleven years. 



A group of twenty-three Penguins {Spheniscus demersus), and 

 an Ostrich, harnessed into a cart, should also be mentioned. 



The Aquarium contained only Axolotls and six species of 

 freshwater fish. 



The tameness of the wild Hooded Crows {Corvus comix) in 

 this garden appeared to me noteworthy. In England I have 

 found this species most shy and evasive, but in Paris it appeared 

 to be familiar and aggressive, almost but not quite so much so 

 as the resident Hooded Crows of Egypt. 



12. Southampton, England. 

 Museum. 



I visited the Hartley University College Museum at South- 

 ampton on October 4th and 6th, 1909. The Institute to which 

 it is attached was founded by bequest of Henry Robinson 

 Hartley, who died in 1850. The building was opened in 1862. 

 The Museum is open free to visitors daily (except on Tuesdays, 

 when I understand that sixpence is charged per person). 



This Museum consists of a large hall with two galleries 

 running round it, all lighted by skylights in the roof. The 

 lower gallery is ornamented with fifteen shields painted with the 

 arms of Hampshire towns. The upper gallery is ornamented 

 with pairs of horns, one of African Buffalo, one of Indian 

 Buffalo, one of Gayal, three of long-horned Domestic Oxen, and 

 one of Kudu. The skin of a large Python from Zululand is also 

 hung from the lower gallery, and two trunks of New Zealand 

 tree-ferns extend from the lower to the upper gallery. 



The collection on the ground floor consists of zoological, 

 palseontological, and geological specimens, and also of local 

 antiquities; noticeable are remains oi Bos " primigenius" found 

 in 1887 when excavating new docks at Southampton, a very 



