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In 1753 Benjamin Tasker, the Governor of Maryland, on retiring 

 from office, laid out his country seat Belair, near Collington, Prince 

 George County, in true manorial style, and included in the improve- 

 ments a park for Deer. 



Another celebrated estate in Maryland was that of Harewood, on 

 Gunpowder Biver, near Baltimore, which about the year 1830 in- 

 cluded a Deer-park of some three hundred acres, where "two hun- 

 dred Deer may often be seen at a single view." Here experiments 

 were made in introducing Pheasants, European Quail, and Red-legged 

 Partridges, but proved unsuccessful, owing chiefly to depredations of 

 poachers and natural enemies. Thirty years later, about 1858-59, 

 was established the Deer-park of Judge J. D. Caton, near Ottawa, 111. 

 This park, which originally comprised but forty acres and was after- 

 wards increased to two hundred, was the first of its kind in the 

 United States. It was established solely for the purpose of observing 

 and studying the various kinds of big game in a state of captivity. 

 Here the observations were made which formed the basis of the 

 owner's well-known work on the Antelope and Deer of America. 



The first game preserve belonging to an incorporated association 

 was that established by the Blooming Grove Park Association in 

 1871, for the purpose " of preserving, importing, breeding, and propa- 

 gating game animals, birds, and fish, and of furnishing facilities to 

 the members for hunting, shooting, and fishing on its grounds." One 

 of the important features was a Deer-park. This venture was followed 

 a few years later by numerous other parks of various kinds, until 

 they now number several hundred. — (U.S. Dep. Agric. Bur. Biol. 

 Surv., Circular No. 72, 1910.) 



Mr. James Drummond, in his " Notes on Natural History in New 

 Zealand" (the 'Lyttelton Times,' June 4th, 1910), writes: — " Omaui 

 is the name of an islet at the entrance to the New Biver Estuary, the 

 approach to the port of Invercargill. The part of the island which 

 faces the ocean and Stewart Island is comparatively flat, and is 

 entirely in the possession of Sea-gulls. The part which faces the 

 north and Invercargill is high, and is covered with veronicas, mosses, 

 lichens, and small tussock. This is the home of countless thousands 

 of Terns. They breed on the highest part, on the Riverton side, and 

 their breeding-place, according to the account supplied by a recent 

 visitor, is a sight that is worth seeing. He says that when he visited 

 the crags and picked his way amongst the eggs, he had the utmost 

 difficulty in avoiding trampling upon them. It is hardly correct to 



