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HAMLYN'S MENAGERIE MAGAZINE. 
in his stock, permission to go about the good 
work in his camps. In this district (says the 
Oudtshoorn paper) we have been told of one 
party who is going to make a big.' business of 
this profession. Thus far he has accounted 
lor a fewi jackals. But lie is now turning his 
attention to the destruction of baboons. He 
hopes to get a big haul at a certain krantz, 
some eight or nine miles from the town. 
Armed with a bucket of mealies well-boiled in 
arsenic, he will strew the floors of the nooks, 
where a large troop nightly congregate for 
peaceful slumber, with the poisoned food. 
The harmless looking grain, sweet to the 
taste from the arsenic, will be rapidly eaten 
by the inhabitants. When morning dawns 
many of them will have gone to the happy 
hunting grounds where there will be no more 
need to search for meafie lands and such like. 
THAT Mr. Raymond L. Ditmars, one of the cura- 
tors of the New York Zoolozical Gardens, is 
using the cinema in his natural history studies 
of marine life. Already he has obtained re- 
sults of supreme scientific importance. 
THAT the German press report the death of four 
lions of Hagenback's collection from fright 
caused by the derailing of a waggon in which 
they were travelling. 
THAT I paid a visit last week to the oldest liv- 
ing Naturalist, Mr. William Jamrach, at Stoke 
Newington. I found him heart}' and well. In 
course of conversation, he mentioned the fact 
of his having imported two hundred Cassowaries 
in ten years. They realised £6,000. Such 
business will never be done again. He has 
been retired from business the last four years. 
THAT mv collector in Calcutta writes as fol- 
lows : — 
"Collection of Monkeys. — The matter is 
becoming difficult day by day owing to res- 
trictions imposed by the Railway Authorities 
to book monkeys per passenger train. These 
monkeys come from the District of Oudh, a 
province about 800 miles from Calcutta. 
Formerly these monkeys are carried by Mail 
or Express passenger train in cages of five 
or six maund each, but now the Railway Au- 
thorities have prohibited booking of bulky 
articles per Mail Train, and all fast Expresses 
have been discontinued. They now only allow 
packages weighing not more than one maund. 
Consequently the monkeys will have to be 
brought in small cages containing not more 
than 3 or 4 in each of them. The freight will 
cost just the treble than what we are paying 
before. Moreover owing to high prices of 
living the monkey catchers have also raised 
their price. All these reasons combined com- 
pel me most reluctantly to increase the price 
of the monkeys." 
I have already advised the collector of my sym- 
pathy, but to hasten forward the monkeys. 
THAT within the next six months I trust business 
will have resumed its normal course. I have 
already made arrangements for shipments of 
African and Indian birds. So far none has 
been made for any Australian shipment. That 
must be left to the Australian traders them- 
selves. 
THAT the following skins are being offered for 
sale in the London Sale Rooms this week : — 
35,563 
Australian Wallaby. 
200 
,, Kangaroo. 
169,254 
,, Opossum. 
22,938 
,, Ringtail. 
5,000 
,, Flving Squirrels. 
29,556 
Indian Civet Cats. 
700 
,, Monkev. 
180 
,, Leopard. 
40 
,, jackal. 
38,433 
American Opossum. 
4,512 
,, Skunk. 
139,900 
,, Musquash. 
328 
,, Beaver. 
25 
Silver and Blue Fox. 
8,533 
Dressed Ermine. 
2,000 Wolf. 
60 Otter. 
40 Chinchilla. 
How long will 
animals last at this rate 
slaughter ! 
of 
THAT the Director of the Zoological Gardens, 
Copenhagen, writes as follows : — 
" The last summer has been excellent for 
the Gardens; we have had lots of visitors, and 
taken in a good deal of money. 
But on the other hand the expenses have 
been SO' large that the financial result has been 
very small. Those Chacma Baboons and 
African Cranes have turned out splendid. I 
am much obliged to you for sending those in- 
teresting photos. If it were spring instead 
of autumn, and if I were able to go to London 
to fetch the animal myself, I should very 
much like to buy the Gorilla, but under the 
present circumstances, I shall have to give 
up that pleasure. 
Things seem to look brighter now, and 
hoping for still better times in the near future, 
I beg you to accept my greetings." 
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