HAMLYN'S MENAGERIE MAGAZINE. 
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Its occupants, comprising Australian bower 
birds, sun bitterns, fruit pigeons, and other 
birds, have been transferred to a portion of the 
aviary which will be left standing. 
The Western Aviary was erected in 1849,. 
It is anticipated that the new work will be com- 
pleted by Easter. 
THAT a number of ,small animals have been 
added to the collection in the Scottish Zoologi- 
cal Park recently. The additions include several 
interesting waterfowl, among them a pair of 
white-fronted geese and a pair of bean geese, a 
male spur-winged goose (a species inhabiting 
West Africa), and a pain of Chilian teal. Of 
new wading birds which have been added in 
the past week or two are specimens of the cur- 
lew, grey plover, spur-winged plover, black- 
tailed godwit, ruff, and oyster-catcher, together 
with an Australian pectoral rail. Four hand- 
reared specimens of the Scottish red grouse ar- 
rived lately. In the acclimatisation house are 
several new monkeys, including two spelimens 
of Burnett's monkey, a somewhat rare species, 
from West Africa. Another interesting addi- 
tion is a specimen of the South African porcu- 
pine, which is also- on view in the acclimatisa- 
tion house. 
THAT the Canadians have been visiting their pet 
Bears in our London Zoo. 
THAT I have received the following from Cape 
Town : — 
"A remarkable battle between two dogs 
and a savage baboon took place recently at 
the Rietkuil farm, in the Vitenhage district. 
Natives seeing a troop of baboons walking up a 
small hill about a hundred yards from the 
homestead of Mr. P. L. Meyer immediately set 
out after them with two dogs, which intercepted 
and drove one of the baboons towards the house. 
"The baboon made for a tank at the corner 
of the house. The dogs vainly tried to get at it 
from the one side, .and the beast jumped down 
the other side and made for a small kloof, where, 
seating itself behind a bush, it awaited the on- 
coming dogs. 
"The foremost dog, a well-grown animal, 
had no sooner reached the bush t'han the baboon 
made a grab at it, and with one bite bit off the 
poor creature's head. The second dog then 
came on the scene, but before long its side was 
ripped open. A shot from a gun fired by a 
native fortunately killed the baboon before any 
more harm could be done." 
THAT the Council of the Royal Zoological Socie- 
ty of Ireland met on Saturday, the President 
presiding. Present — Prof. C. H. Carpenter 
(hon. sec); Dr. MacDowel Cosgrave (hon. 
treas.); James Inglis, Esq.; Dr. Leeper; A. 
Miller, Esq.; Sir F. Moore; Prof. Scott; Dr. 
Scriven; L. E. Steele, Esq.; Sir R. H. Woods. 
Next Wednesday, at 4.15, the secretary remin- 
ded the Council, Prof. J. Arthur Thomson, of 
Aberdeen University, would give his lecture for 
the society in the Royal Dublin Society's Thea- 
tre. This is the first time Prof. J. Arthur Thom- 
son has lectured under the auspices of the 
Royal 1 Zoological Society, and the Society hope 
for as good if not a better attendance as that 
which generally fills the theatre when lectures 
are given for the Dublin Zoo. The prevailing 
wet weather prevented many visitors to the Gar- 
dens for the past week, and the turnstiles only 
registered 371 for the week. Lower than for 
some considerable time. The monkeys miss 
visitors more perhaps than any other of the ani- 
mals in the Gardens, a s they do like a gallery 
to play to. The Council hope to> acquire some 
monkeys they have been offered shortly for the 
large central cage. The lion cubs born at rJie 
beginning of the month are doing well. They 
are the offsprings of the Irish lions "Con" and 
"Maive," and in their snug nursery they do not 
trouble their small woolly heads as to the state 
of the weather, plenty of straw and a warm 
corner to' huddle in is sufficient for them. 
THAT the " Daily Express" gives the following 
account of a Tiger loose in a train : — 
"Great excitement was caused at the Cal- 
cutta terminus a few days ago, when, on the 
arrival of the Madras mail train it became known 
that a full-grown Bengal tiger had broken loose 
from its cage in the luggage-van at the end of 
the train, and was running amok. 
"The tiger — a mignificent specimen — was 
part of a consignment sent by the Maharajah 
of Mysore as a gift to the Calcutta Zoo, the 
other animals being two llamas and six kan- 
garoos, a cockerel and two hens, the tiger hav- 
ing a cage to himself. 
"A coolie entered the compartment adjoin- 
ing the cages on the train's arrival at Calcutta, 
and saw to his horror that the tiger had at 
some stage in the journey broken out of its cage 
and entered the cage in which the llamas and 
poultry were ronfined. The coolie ran for his 
life to obtain assistance, and soon a large 
crowd gathered at a respectful distance on the 
railway bridge to> report proceedings. 
" Zoo and railway officials who came hurry- 
ing t'o the scene witnessed a remarkable specta- 
cle. It was found that the tiger had already 
killed the llama and the two hens, but had failed 
to vanquish the cockerel, which was still walk- 
ing about freely, having successfully kept its 
opponent at bay by means of a sort of 'fowl jiu 
jitsu. ' 
"The tiger, again and again, tried its ut- 
most to land its paw on the cockerel, but the 
latter cleverly evaded all blows aimed at it, 
crowing triumphantly after the end of each 
round. 
"The luggage van was finally detached 
from the train and 1 removed to the goods shed 
