ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



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OUT-DOOR AVIARY OF MR. KENVON V. PAINTER. CLEVELAND, OHIO. 



Section No. 2 



robin, a Blyth myna, two black-winged mynas, 

 a mandarin myna, a black-headed yellow bul- 

 bul, a white-browed wood swallow, bred in 

 191-2, and a golden-fronted barbet. 



Cage number three contained a number of 

 rarities, the most unusual being two ruddy 

 crakes. These little Japanese rails are dark 

 olive green above and rich chestnut below, the 

 legs being bright red. There were also a pair 

 of gray buntings, a yellow-browed bunting, a 

 female Corean robin, a verditer flycatcher, and 

 a beautiful albino Japanese sparrow. 



In the last enclosure were a Japanese blue 

 flycatcher, a large number of yellow-winged 

 sugar-birds, a Cuban banana tanager which 

 has lived in the collection more than four years, 

 and a Kamchatka wagtail. 



The large flying cage contained a great 

 assortment of uncommon birds, all delight- 

 fully tame. Among them were a lovely green 

 fruit pigeon, a brown-headed parrot, a perfectly 

 fearless pair of red-billed pigeons, several white- 

 crested touracos, a yellow-backed lory, and a 

 gray drongo. 



At the right of the main building, extending 

 outward as a wing, is a flight cage about 

 seventy-two feet long, which is occupied by a 

 pair of common trumpeters, a long-tailed glossy 

 starling, a Yucatan jay, and a green hunting 

 crow. 



A partially sunken lawn behind the wall at 

 the rear of this extension has been enclosed to 

 form an aviary about eighty by fifty feet. 

 The most important occupants were a pair of 



white-browed wood swallows, which were still 

 busily feeding two lusty youngsters, already 

 strong on the wing. A bare-throated francolin 

 was incubating in a pile of hay in a corner. 

 The aviary contained a variety of game and 

 shore birds, including a dusky francolin, 

 Bonham rock partridges, Curacao crested quail, 

 dunlins, European curlew, moor hens, and 

 cayenne wood rails. 



In front of the aviary is an enclosed lawn of 

 about half an acre, including an ornamental 

 pond. Here are quartered a group of the larger 

 ornamental birds. The most interesting was 

 a fine West African crowned crane, mated with 

 a female of the common species. There were 

 also white-necked, Manchurian and demoiselle 

 cranes, a black stork, and mitred guinea fowl. 



The entire collection is cared for by a very 

 intelligent Italian woman, and the uniformly 

 perfect condition of her charges attests her 

 skill in handling them. 



Walrus and Sea-Lion. — While the Sea- 

 Lion Pool in Baird Court is out of commission, 

 its solitary occupant has been transferred to 

 the crocodiles' summer pool, where he enjoys 

 the luxury of a salt bath as nearly similar to 

 his native ocean as Curator Ditmars can make 

 it. The young walrus, who has lived in single 

 blessedness so long in the south end of the 

 pool has received this intrusion with suspicion, 

 and it has required several weeks of intimacy 

 for him to become reconciled to his keeper 

 assuming charge of his pinniped relative. 



