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HAMLYN'S MENAGERIE MAGAZINE. 



The railway officials were very attentive and 

 obliging. 



Just to give my readers some slight idea of 

 the cost of moving live stock, I may mention 

 that the expenses on this day alone was £35 

 (thirty-five pounds). Still I had my valuable birds 

 home. The 4 Elephants, 3 Tigers, 1 Panther, 

 could only be cleared in dock, this taking place 

 on Saturday, 23rd August. 



The losses on the journey were very slight. 

 My native attendant performed his duty well. He 

 is a devoted keeper. The expenses of the entire 

 consignment were tremendous, considerably over 

 £1,000 alone. I believe in paying everyone lib- 

 erally for services rendered. 



Mr. A. E. Pickard, of Glasgow, was again 

 the first to purchase from this consignment. He 

 adopted the business-like plan of telegraphing — 



"Send on twenty Monkeys cheque posted." 



The Mankeys left thirty minutes after receipt of 

 telegram, the cheque arrived in the morning, the 

 whole transaction being settled in Mr. Pickard's 

 usual expeditious manner. Oh ! how I wish all 

 my customers were Pickards ! My life would be 

 prolonged indefinitely. It is only fair here to 

 state that the representative of Messrs. Derry and 

 Toms, of Kensington, met the steamer in the 

 Tilbury Docks and purchased a four-foot Elephant 

 — the smallest of the four. 



One Tiger went to Manchester, another to 

 Halifax, and the third is going to Copenhagen. 

 The majority of the larger birds are sold. Messrs. 

 Fulljames, Frostick, Allen Silver, with others, 

 all pronounced the collection as the finest collec- 

 tion of Indian Birds ever imported. 



The Minahs are very large, and are deserv- 

 ing the attention of every Amateur. Some most 

 interesting birds arrived, one of which is deserv- 

 ing special mention, the Yellow-naped Wood- 

 pecker; there was also a Pitta, some Jerdons, 

 Honeysuckers, Tits, Flycatchers, Redstarts, etc., 

 etc. 



There was also on board the " Malakuta" four 

 Giant Tortoises from the Seychelles, two of which 

 have gone to the Zoo. 



Mr. Wesley T. Page received a small lot of 

 Avadavats, Zostehops and Rails. 



This article on The Trade would not be per- 

 fect without attention being drawn to an adver- 

 tisement emanating from a dealer in East Street, 

 Old Kent Road, in "Cage Birds," August 23rd, 

 page 117. Whether Botterill's imagination has 

 run riot, or "Cage Birds" has misprinted some 

 of the figures, I do not know, but this I do say, 

 that in the forty years I have been in business, I 

 have never seen one to equal it. I will mention 

 some of the items : — 



50 pairs Indian Peafowl. 

 3600 Green Parrots. 



200 Civet Cats. 



100 Malabar Squirrels. 



51 Spotted Deer. 



50 ONLY Wanderoo Monkeys. 



There, gentle reader, are some of the items. 

 Does the advertiser know how many boxes the 

 above goods would require? And 51 Spotted Deer ! 

 What is the object of this advertisement? Who 

 prompted it? Anyway, if Botterill, of East Street, 

 imports on Bill of Lading in the regular way of 

 trade, in ONE consignment, only one specimen 

 of each lot mentioned, I will give £10 to the 

 London Hospital. This consignment to arrive 

 any time this year. "Cage Birds" can hold the 

 money. I trust all purchasers will wait their 

 arrival before sending money. 



FATE OF THE ADD0 ELEPHANTS. 



By John D. Hamlyn. 



"Hamlyn's Menagerie Magazine" claims to 

 be the first Magazine to draw the attention of the 

 British Public to these unfortunate creatures. The 

 various notices in this Magazine from time to 

 time have been noticed by the leading London 

 papers from "The Times" downwards. Still I 

 am sorry to say their fate is settled. To my 

 mind, they have done no wrong, they were in pos- 

 session of the Forest befoTe the advent of the 

 White Man, and as usual in this world, the weak- 

 est goes to the wall. They demand the right to 

 live. They asked not the white man to steal their 

 primaeval forests-. Being an ardent lover of 

 everything wild I sympathise with the loss of the 

 Addo Bush Elephants. 



A most interesting article has just appeared 

 in "The African World." I cannot do better 

 than give it in extenso : — 



WHY EXTERMINATION WAS DECREED. 



The elephants of the Addo Bush are unique. 

 They are the last survivors of the great herds 

 who once roamed the forests of the Cape. When 

 their brethren retreated north before the advance 

 of the white man's civilisation they alone of all 

 the troops stood their ground, secure in the im- 

 penetrable extent of thorn country lying some 30 

 miles from Algoa Bay. 



Here they were able to defy the march of 

 civilisation, and here they remain to this day. 

 Now and again white men enter the Bush at the 

 risk of encountering a swift and terrible death, 

 and lay one of the mammoths low. And now and 

 again the elephants reverse the order and shock- 



