16 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



" Thinking, both as a fine animal, and also on account of 

 the singular circumstances attending him that it would be 

 worth while to retain a picture of him, Billy, in the year 

 1842, stood for his portrait to a well-known talented artist 

 of Liverpool in the line of animals, Mr. Eichard Ansdell, 

 who was at that time taking likenesses of several of the 

 animals then in the Menagerie here, which picture now 

 hangs opposite to the entrance door in the hall at Knows- 

 ley. For the two or three last years of his life poor Billy 

 had become very infirm, and so evidently declining, that 

 it was clear he could not longer resist his competitors 

 unaided. The keeper therefore adopted the plan of plac- 

 ing him in a small clump of oldish trees, fenced in from 

 the general park during the winter months, and in that 

 shelter he died in March, 1845, having evinced for some 

 time the infirmities of his advanced age. I do not how- 

 ever, think that there had been much alteration in his 

 horns for the last few years, though what alteration there 

 was, was for the worse ; and at the last his horns were so 

 very indifferent, that when Thompson sent up the body to 

 the British Museum, he did not send the last horns with 

 which he died, but a somewhat earlier and rather better 

 pair, as the last were injured and broken in the animal's 

 last struggles. Shaw tells me it was the last three 

 winters that he was kept up in the plantation, from 

 whence he would often lead him across the front green 

 into his old quarters in the yard, and when there, if he 

 could find an opportunity by the door being open, he 

 would often enter the kitchen and lie down like a dog 

 before the fire." 



Lord Derby, in his Notes on Stanley Cranes (Scops 

 Paradisea.), observes in his " Gleanings from the Menagerie 

 and Aviary" : — 



' ' I possessed for some years several individuals of that 



