HAMLYN'S MENAGERIE MAGAZINE. 
A REMARKABLY HANDSOME LEOPARD. 
An uncommon animal recently descovered in the 
interior parts of Bengal, 
THE URSINE SLOTH. 
A RAVENOUS WOLF. 
The Civet and Genet — commonly called Muscovy 
Cats — A real Jackall — The Magot or Great Ape — ■ 
Raccoons — the hneumon — Coatimondi — Agouti, 
and upwards of fifty different animals. 
A pair of Great Emews (Emus, perhaps) or Lin- 
naeus's Southern Ostrich from Van Diemans 
Land, 7 ft. high. 
The Cassowarv of New South Wales. 
A pair of those birds of ancient fame, 
"The Pelicans of the Wilderness." 
A pair of the birds recently supposed to be fabulous 
THE BLACK SWANS. 
The King of the Vultures, supposed to be the 
Phoenix of ancients :■ — 
THE BRAZILIAN VULTURE. 
Several Curasoos from S. America — Great Horned 
Owl from Hudsons Bay, Spoonbill, Storks, Eagles 
and great Variety of other birds of the most splen- 
did plumage in the known world. 
ADMITTANCE ONE SHILLING. 
Admittance at Feeding Time Two Shillings and 
Sixpence. 
Birds & Beasts bought, sold, or exchanged by the 
proprietor. 
JAMRACH'S. 
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One of the most exciting of these adven- 
tures took place some thirty years ago. A line, 
full-grown Bengal tiger was deposited, in his 
roung wooden cage, on this very spot at the 
gates, having just been delivered from a ship in 
the docks. The lair at the back was being pre- 
pared for his reception, when, the attention of Mr. 
Jamrach and his merry men being otherwise en- 
gaged, Tigris regalis set his hind quarters against 
the back of his temporary receptacle, and, using 
all his strength, managed to burst out the boards. 
Then he quietly trotted out, and down the main 
street. The sudden appearance of a full-sized 
tiger at mid-day on the pavement of Ratcliff High- 
way was the signal for a general skedaddle, ex- 
cepting on the part of a little boy of about eight 
years of age, who, never having seen a thing of 
the sort before, innocent]}' extended his hand and 
stroked the big cat. A playful tap of the great 
soft paw at once knocked the child upon his face, 
stunned; and, picking him up by the loose part 
of the jacket, the animal was proceeding up the 
next turning, when Mr. Jamrach who had just dis- 
covered the escape, came running up. Empty- 
handed as he was, he sprang at the tiger's neck 
from behind, and, grasping the throat with both 
hands, drove his thumbs into the soft place behind 
the jaw. Mr. Jamrach was an unusually powerful 
man — indeed ,he is no weakling now, though 
nearer eighty than seventy years of age — and at 
his scientific grasp the tiger, half choked, let his 
captive fall, when a couple of heavy blows across 
the eyes from a crowbar thrust into the naturalist's 
hands by an attendant thoroughly cowed the great 
beast, who turned tail and meekly trotted back 
straight into the lair prepared for him, the dcor 
of which stood open for his reception. The little 
boy was without a scratch; but, although £50 
was offered his father as compensation, Mr. Jam- 
rach 's intrepidity was rewarded by an action for 
£500 damages. In the end the smaller amount first 
offered was awarded, and the loss in costs was 
made sweeter by the judge's praise of the defen- 
dant's prompt and courageous action. The mone- 
tary loss had already been discounted by the ar 
rival, in hot haste, the day after the accident, of a 
showman, who gladly paid £300 for the culprit. 
This was no bad speculation on his part, it was 
found, when he had counted up the sixpences re 
ceived all over the country for admission to see 
the "tiger that had eaten a boy alive in Ratcliff 
Highway." 
And, so, with many an anecdote of his own 
and his father's experiences in their peculiar busi- 
ness from Mr. Jamrach the younger, we go up- 
stairs and wander among the stock. This, of 
course, is ever varying in quantity and species, 
but has always some interesting feature. We are 
introduced to a solemn monkey, who salaams 
gravely three times, and then waits to be asked 
to shake hands, which he does with great cere- 
mony. We see porcupines, black swans and ante- 
lopes, and we hear, at the peril of never hearing 
anything afterwards, the noisy cranes. There is 
a Sumatra civet cat, with a small, fox-like head, 
and a magnificent tail; he is not cordial, and snaps 
an awkward-looking row of sharp teeth at us. 
Just behind his little cage is a large one, which 
