Don Horacio 



Mr. Cutter's persuasive influence and 

 action. It was his habit to visit the 

 aviary almost every day. He knew 

 all the birds in it and many more out- 

 side. He was a sort of bird-charmer 

 in his way, and he liked to tell of 

 friendly humming-birds that would 

 sometimes alight upon his hand or 

 head. He caused the introduction 

 to the park and to California of the 

 Japanese bulbul.* He was personally 

 acquainted with the black swans on 

 the lake, and constantly visited and 

 fed, during their season, his migra- 

 tory friends, the coots. He was on 

 familiar terms with the rainbow trout. 

 He also maintained more or less in- 

 timate relations with the elks, the 

 moose, the buffaloes, and the big griz- 



* It has been asserted that the " ten pairs " 

 of bulbuls, first imported from Japan, proved 

 to be all males, without a single mother-bird 

 in the lot; but this may be the cynical inven- 

 tion of some " eternal misbeliever." 

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