ORNAMENTAL WATERFOWL. 13 
of the thirteenth Earl of Derby, President of the Zoological 
Society, whose: celebrated menagerie at Knowsley contained 
a magnificent collection of Anatidz which were dispersed 
by auction in the autumn of 1852. The same may be said of 
the fine collection of waterfowl maintained by the late Lord 
Lilford in Northamptonshire. 
One of the most extensive and comple private collections 
of swimming birds is that at Woburn Abbey, where the present 
Duke of Bedford (President of the Zoological Society) has 
assembled a most representative stock of all the imported ducks 
and geese, as well as of those which are indigenous to this 
country, acres of water, fields, and marshes being devoted to 
these birds, which breed in complete freedom under the most 
favourable auspices. 
It is much to be hoped that the Waterfowl Club will 
utilise its formation, not merely to insure a good classification 
at shows for known varieties, but to encourage and stimulate 
the acquisition and acclimatisation of many beautiful and rare 
specimens still unrepresented in England. 
