98 
HAMLYN'S MENAGERIE MAGAZINE. 
are responsible for bad condition which is, in 
reality, the outcome of some form of starvation. 
The wild animal trade need not cause more 
than temporary fear and discomfort to newly 
-caught animals,, but, as at present conducted, it 
is productive of much cruelty and waste of life 
especially among the less valuable kinds. The 
majority of dealers do not care a farthing how 
their stock is caught, and encourage barbarous 
and wasteful trappery by natives. They also 
do not care in the least under what conditions the 
animals exist on board ship or in the stores,, so 
long as they can unload them on their customers 
in sufficient numbers to make a living out of 
them. 
There are, however, exceptions, and it is 
to these people that we must look to set an ex- 
ample of humanity combined with business 
method. Such an example is badly needed. 
Yours truly, 
TAVISTOCK. 
Mr. J. Harnlyn. 
BIRDS AND ANIMALS THAT HAVE 
BRED WITH ME. 
By Dr. J. Kerr Butter. 
Budgerigars I have kept for many years, 
both the Green and Yellow varieties. They are 
very hardy, and do best in the open without any 
heat whatever. I keep mine in a shed made like 
a fowl pen, with the cocoa-nut husks hanging 
from the ceiling with wires, and a little sawdust 
in the inside of the husks to keepi the eggsi warm 
and together. There is a flight cage attached, 8 
feet high, & feet wide and 8i feet long, with perches 
and an old tree with the branches on it. The 
seed boxes, and water are in the flight cage. I 
feed with millet, canary, and a little hemp seed, 
and plenty of sand and fine grit. The bottom of 
the flight cage is on the field, and the grass 
grows naturally. There is a ledge on the front 
part of the shed at the top with small holes so 
that the birds, can have ingress and egress as 
they please. They lay G to 8 eggs at a time, and 
I find sometimes two lay in the same nest. 
I have bred many fancy Pheasants, especially 
the Golden variety. I use silky bantam hens for 
hatching as they are good sitters and excellent 
mothers, being light, so that if they trample the 
chicks there is not so much fear of hurting them 
or breaking their legs. The chicks are delicate 
and want a lot of care at -first, a heavy shower 
of rain will kill lots of them in a few minutes; 
they die from cramp in a very short space of 
time. They should be fed at first with boiled 
egg and a little lettuce chopped with it, and in 
a few days ants eggs and clean gentles, and have 
a grass run changed very frequently. 
From a pair of Impeyan Pheasants I was 
lucky to freed from. The hen pheasant llaid three 
eggs which I put under a bantam hen; two of 
them were addled but one chick was hatched and 
lived to full maturity, and I kept her for several 
years. I think they are rare breeders in this 
country, as I understand at the Zoo they have 
only reared four in tmenty years. It was very 
amusing to see the Impeyan Pheasant chicken 
when it got almost as large as the bantam trying 
to get under her for warmth on a perch. 
I bred a Hybrid Pheasant from a common 
Pheasant Cock and a Golden Pheasant Hen. The 
chick grew and did well, and was much darker 
in plumage than either of the parents. 
With my Ostriches I had great success; a 
full account of them is in the Magazine of the 
Avicultural Society this month (April). 
I have' bred for many years the Chinese 
Goose and the Upland Goose; they are very pro 
line and lay nice eggs. 
Amongst my animals that bred with me, a 
pair of Flying Phalangers did so, and brought 
up two young ones, for which I received the 
Bronze Medal of the Amateur Menagerie Club. 
They all lived together for several years. I fed 
them with bread and milk, and all kinds of fruit 
with monkey nuts. 
With my Monkeys I was very fortnate as I 
bred a young Hamabryad Baboon yearly for four 
years in succession; also a young Rhesus Mon- 
key (Hybrid) as his. father was a Jew Monkey, 
his mother being a big Rhesus. I find monkeys 
of this species carry their young for seven 
months; they suckle till they cut their first teeth 
about 4 1 months old; they then begin to try the 
different kinds of food that the mother feeds on. 
The parents are very jealous of any one touch- 
ing the young, and if it dies, it is impossible to 
get it away from them, as the parents will carry 
it about with them till it falls to pieces from 
decomposition. 
My Armadillos breed very regularly — two at 
a birth. I have kept them alive for 10 daysi at 
a time feeding them with an infant's feeding bot- 
tle. 
My African Civets bred three years in suc- 
ctssion, giving birth to. two at a time. I also 
assisted to feed the kittens on an infant's feeder. 
