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cated by the bare red face, whereas in the case 
of common ducks a patriarch may be foisted on 
one unhetected. It is true that the young Mus- 
covy duck is too long and lanky to please the 
poulterer; but 1 all those I have seen have just 
taken "pot luck" and not been "forced" at all 
with high feeding; the flesh is all right, and the 
hybrids are of the right stamp for the table, or 
the practical French would not breed them. 
Generally a drake will mate with several 
ducks, but some will be contented with one, like 
their old bird at the Zoo, which has been there 
eight years and has been very groggy of late, al- 
thodgh he still sires a few ducklings, in spite 
of his mate being his own daughter, another 
disadvantage. He is a true wild South American 
bird, all black except for white patches on the 
wings, and with even the bare face blaok, a 
point which his sons by a tame Muscovy duck 
have inherited; it would not, however, be a good 
point to encourage in breeding, as the red face 
of the tame strain is so much handsome and more 
distinctive. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
THAT the arrivals in London have been some 
Budgerigars, 3 Mandrills, 20 mixed Monkeys, 
7 Canadian Porcupines, 60 Grey Squirrels, 1 
White Crane, 1 White-necked Crane, 15 Mon- 
gooses, 1 Red Teguexin, 1 Eenegal Parrot 
(rose variety). 
THAT the arrivals in Liverpool have been a few 
Monkeys from West Africa. 
THAT the Prince of Monaco has proposed to es- 
tablish in the Pyrenees, Alps Auvergne, Corsi- 
ca and Algeria, a number of large parks as 
preserves after the model of Yellowstone Park 
in America. 
THAT Captain Lord Lucas, a former President 
of the Board of Agriculture, who was killed 
in France last November, has bebueathed to 
the Hon. T. G. Grenfell lands in Norfolk and 
an annuity of £250 in order that the uroperfy 
should be kept as a preserve for birds. 
THAT Bostock's Italian Circus is now touring 
in India. It opened in Calcutta with great 
success. 
THAT visitors to the Zoological Gardens in 
1916 numbered 1,084,249, an increase of 25,521 
as compared with the previous ear, and the 
receipts for admission at the gates amounted 
to £24,542— £1,159 more than was taken in 
1915. 
THAT two leopard cubs, male and female, re- 
cently captured in the South-West Protector- 
ate, have been sent to England to General Lukin 
for presentation to the King. 
THAT the "Daily Mail" has the following:— 
"How the murder of a Chinese conjurer 
was revealed and the alleged murderer indenti- 
fied through the actions of an intelligent mon- 
key belonging to the dead man is related by 
the 'Singapore Free Press,.' 
" Resting in a Malay hut, after a perform- 
ance on a rubber estate near Taiping, the con- 
jurer was attacked, killed, and robbed, the body 
afterwards being dragged out and buried. The 
murder apparently was witnessed by the mon- 
key, which took refuge in the rafters. 
"Later a European walking some distance 
from the hut was surprised by a monkey com- 
ing towards him and pulling at the leg of his 
trousers. He tried to drive the animal away 
by kicking it, but it persisted in clawing at his 
legs and then trotting a little way ahead and 
looking back to see if it was being followed. 
" Finally the man followed the monkey to a 
mound of freshly turned earth, which it began 
to scratch up. The man informed the police, 
who dug up the soil and found the mutilated 
body of the monkey's master. 
" Suspicion fell upon a Malay, who, on 
being brought up at the police station with a 
number of other men, was immediately attacked 
with the greatest fury by the monkey, which 
was with difficulty prevented from doing him 
serious injury. The Malay's guilt has yet to be 
established by the court." 
THAT according to the "Daily Sketch," San- 
ger's well-known circus is to be disbanded until 
the end of the war. the Elephants and Camels 
will be let out on hire for ploughing. 
THAT on and after April 2nd all parcels — live 
stock and otherwise — must be sent prepaid on 
the railways of Great Britain. 
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