24 HAMLYN’S MENAGERIE MAGAZINE. v, 
“This will certainly spread and come to us. 
if our governments continue to close their eyes 
to the anarchistic propaganda which is raging 
more than ever.” 
Not only servants, and game-keepers, but 
even the wild animals all are wantonly murdered 
by the Bolsheviki. 
THAT I regret to have to announce the death of, 
Daniel Day, who died in Hope Hospital, Man- 
chester, on Monday last. The deceased, who 
was widely known, had travelled Lancashire 
for many years, but was formerly the head of 
Day’s Menagerie. 
THAT a soldier who lost his arm as the result of 
being bitten by a lion in a travelling menagerie 
sued the owner, Mr. P. Collins, for damages 
at Birkenhead, on Monday. 
His story was that while visiting the men- 
agerie on New Year’s Day he slipped and fell 
against a rope barrier, which swayed towards 
the lion’s cage. He threw out his arm to save 
himself, and his arm went into the cage and 
was mauled by one of the animals. Blood poi- 
soning set in and the arm had to be amputated. 
A woman, who gave evidence for the de- 
fence, said she saw the soldier get under the 
rope barrier and put his hand near the cage and 
one of the lions bit him. 
Giving judgment for Mr. Collins the judge 
said he thought the soldier lost his arm as the 
result of youthful foolhardiness. 
THAT “The Field” gives most interesting infor- 
mation concerning ‘Foxes in a Public Park” 
as follows : : 
Some years ago Pollok Park, situated 
near the Dumbreck suburb of Glasgow, was 
thrown open to the public by the proprietor. 
The corporation keep it in good order, and as 
it is a beautiful piece of ground, heavily 
wooded, it is visited regularly by very many 
people. Gardeners work in it every day, and 
though anitnal life is not so abundant as for- 
merly, hares and pheasants are still plenti- 
ful. All the commoner birds are there in 
large numbers—in the winter I saw a flock 
of chaffinches which must have numbered 
many hundreds, while in a field near I counted 
about forty pheasants. Two of its blackbirds 
are piebald, one has a broad band of white 
over the back and wings, the other has its 
head and part of its back snowy white. A 
keeper tells me also of a cock blackbird 
wholly brown. 
Squirrels are fairly plentiful. I have 
seen a few kestrels, and every evening, short- 
ly after the park has been cleared by the 
whistles ofl the keepers, a heron alights at 
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the small artificial pond and makes 
of perch. This bird hides in the w 
throughout the day. The keepers decl 
knows the meaning of the whistles, 
are blown to warn the visitors out 
park. Its favourite hunting ground — 
pond is an outlet which drains away the. 
fluous water. A water-hen knows per 
well the purpose of this outlet, and sv 
into it to get anything eatable drawn b 
out of the pond. 
The pond is full of perch, mostly s 
Perch were introduced to the water m 
years ago by one of the keevers, who brought 
them from a pond in the district. They grew — 
rapidly, but were accidentally poisoned. T. 
keeper suspected that it was a malicious | 
of some person, but he discovered later th: 
one of the gardeners had been using a wee 
killing liquid on the paths. Rain came 
washed the liquid into the pond, with 
result that nearly all the fish were poisc 
water, many of them weighing over 3lb. 
attempt was made to introduce trout, but 
it was a failure. 
lic, foxes were numerous “ang hounds fii ted 
the estate. A few years ago, as the latter 
failed to find, the huntsman declared that 
foxes had disappeared. He was wrong. 
1917 the keepers destroyed sixteen fox: 
and cubs; last year they destroyed twenty- 
six, and this year twelve have been killed. be 
Two fully-grown foxes had their earth — 
in a secluded part of the park. They dis- 
appeared, and it was discovered recently tha 
they had made a new earth close to one 
the paths most frequented by the public. “ 
dog-fox was seen going to ground, and t 
were set. One of these was set under 
hole, but the fox made a tunnel under 
trap and so avoided it. The traps were 
cordingly placed both under and above 
hole, and the two parent foxes were caug: 
as well as two young ones. Thre ecubs we 
known to be left, but it was expecte 
they were still being suckled, that their 
was sealed. The keepers were at fault, 
however. The foxes had apparently well — 
stored the lair with food, for two of 
youngsters are known to be alive and th 
ing. A short time ago a keeper put a 
ret into the hole, expecting that the 
would immediately bolt and could be 
He was wrong. The ferret “lay up’ 
“something happened.” The ferret has 
been seen since, while two of the cubs ha 
survived. It is not know what happer 
the third cub, which was weakly. 
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