10 ORNAMENTAL WATERFOWL. 
of the Waterfowl, I am able to append, the names of those 
which have bred being printed in italics: —Black Swan, White 
Swan, Chinese Goose, Bernicle Goose, Sebastopol Grey lag, 
Brent Goose, Bean Goose, White-fronted Goose, Zgyptian 
Goose, Canada Goose, Magellanic Goose, Hybrid Goose, 
Common Sheldrake, Australian Sheldrake, Ruddy Sheldrake, 
Carolina, Mandarin, Spotted Bill, Chilian Pintail, Gadwall, 
Common Pintail, Shoveller, Tufted Duck, Jfuscovy Duck, 
Call or Decoy Duck, Australian Duck, Black Indian Duck, 
Wild Duck, Hybrid Ducks of various kinds, Golden-Eye 
Pochard, Wigeon, Garganey, Teal, Coot, Moorhen, Porphyrto, 
(Blue Water Hen), Dadchicks, (or Grehes), Black-backed Gull, 
Flerring Gull, Black-headed Gull, Stork, &c. 
There are also Herons, Pelicans, and Penguins; the 
Spoon-bills have now died out, but there still remain Pea-fowl of 
various sorts with Gold and Silver Pheasants. 
At the time of my visit (July) I was shown a 
number of nests, and noticed with pleasure the unusually 
large broods of ducklings which were following the mother 
birds. The Bernicle Goose was sitting under a dead tree 
in a shallow hollow, scooped in the bare earth, and richly lined 
with black down plucked from her own breast. The enormous 
erection of sticks and rushes made by the swan was close by, 
some eggshells lying about showing how recently the young 
had left it. Under a weeping willow I perceived the neat 
flat couch of the Moorhen, which plunged into the water at 
the sound of our steps, while near by, the keeper pointed out 
the nest of a Spotted-bill, which had selected for her breeding 
place the shelter of a rough wooden coop, of which a couple 
of dozen are set invitingly around. 
It is under circumstances such as these that waterfowl 
look best and do best, while it is interesting to remember that 
