ORNAMENTAL WATERFOWL. 9 
rain water above described, and is received in a cement or 
iron tank, that the receptacle be cleared out as often as is 
required. In times of drought, or when the water has unavoid- 
ably much fouled, a bottle of Condy’s Fluid may, with great 
advantage, be added. 
A plantation of winter cabbage, comfrey, or other vege- 
table will be found most useful when grass is no longer 
procurable, and in hard winter, mangolds, carrots, and other 
roots may be cut up and thrown down for the birds to peck 
at. Geese will sometimes eat hay if tied in little bundles 
within their reach. 
Up to the present moment we have been considering the 
condition of waterfowl, which, from the fear of foxes, or for 
other reasons, are compelled to be kept within bounds. Should 
such precautions not be necessary, and the birds be allowed 
full liberty on a lake, nothing can promise better as regards 
the chances of successful breeding. In full liberty, waterfowl 
will require much less feeding than when in circumscribed 
spaces, owing to the greater quantity of aquatic herbage at 
their disposal, while for the same reason the breeding birds 
will in all probability fulfil the expectations of the fancier. 
owing to the enjoyment of greater quietness and solitude 
indispensable to them at that season. 
The Londoner can see this charmingly exemplified by a 
visit to St. James’s Park, where a great variety of waterfowl 
of every description may be seen disporting themselves on the 
beautiful lake, engaged in incubation, or leading their little 
broods on the velvety sward which is enclosed for a con- 
siderable distance at intervals on each side of the water. On 
this lake (about half-a-mile in length and averaging 200 yards 
in width), may be found about fifty different kinds of Anatde, 
a list of which, by the courtesy of Mr. Hinton, the keeper 
