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HAMLYN'S MENAGERIE MAGAZINE. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



By John D. Hamlyn. 



THAT "The Financial Times" prints the follow- 

 ing : 



Last year a company was floated for the 

 purpose of dealing in "wild animals and other 

 living creatures," the idea being to capture the 

 German trade in trained and wild animals. This 

 trade had its centre in Hamburg and supplied 

 zoological gardens, circuses, etc., with the ani- 

 mals required. A band of British sportsmen 

 formed a syndicate known as the World's Zoo- 

 logical Trading Company, to carry on a similar 

 trade on a more humane basis. Another strange 

 company has now been registered, dealing more 

 particularly with sea lions. The style of the 

 company is as follows : 



Woodward's (Kingston-by-Sea), Ltd. 

 (158,260). — Private company. Registered 

 26th August. Capital £500', in £1 shares. 

 To carry on the business of trainers, ex- 

 hibitors and breeders of and dealers in sea 

 lions, seals and other animals, music hall 

 and theatrical proprietors, etc. The first 

 directors are : J. G. W T oodward, 'Mayville,' 

 Kingston-by-Sea, Sussex, animal trainer 

 (also described as motor engineer); Mrs. A. 

 Woodward, 43, Basuto Read, Fulham, 

 S.W. , stage artiste. Solicitor, V. G. H. 

 Hicks, Moorgate Station Chambers, E.C. 

 Registered office, "Mayville," Kingston- 

 by-Sea, Sussex. 



Mr. Woodward's extraordinarily intelligent 

 sea lions, of course, are known tc all the readers 

 of this Magazine. 



THAT the following cutting has been sent from 

 Paris : 



The wild boars which developed so rapidly 

 during the war owing to the game-shooting 

 restrictions, continue their depredations in the 

 neighbourhood of forests. This is particularly 

 the case in the vicinity of the Challonnais for- 

 ests. Those killed recently there were found to 

 have the stomach full of grapes. In preceding 

 years it was with maize and potatoes that the 

 boars fattened themselves for the table. Boar- 

 flesh this year may therefore be expected to be 

 a great delicacy. 



THAT Mr. Wcodward, Southwick, Sussex, offers 

 a reward of one hundred pounds to a person or 

 persons catching and returning uninjured " Billi- 

 ken," a clever performing sea lion which es- 

 caped from Shoreham Harbour on June 23rd 

 last. 



Poor "Billiken" was supposed to hunt the 

 U Beats, now he is hunted by everybody. I 

 cannot understand Woodward's belief in sea 

 lions hunting submarine craft. That was quite 

 impossible. 



THAT the Scottish Zoological Park, Edinburgh, 

 have received from Calcutta two striped Hyae* 

 nas, twoi Indian Jackals, two Indian Pythons, a 

 Mongoose, and three varieties cf Monkeys. 



If I had attempted a consignment like this 

 the expenses would have been more than the 

 value of the animals. 



There is an absolute craze on now by every 

 Zoological Society importing its own stock. It 

 dees not matter so long as they can avoid the 

 Dealers. Never mind ! WAIT AND SEE ! ! 



THAT the arrivals in the trade have been, sc far 

 as I can gather, pair Blessbok, nine Chacma 

 Baboons, one long armed yellow Baboon, nine 

 Vervet Monkeys, three Porcupines, twelve 

 horned Guinea Fowls, one brown Heron, four 

 Egyptian Geese, three rcsy-faced Lovebirds, 

 four Stanley Cranes, two red-headed Finches, 

 and one Meyers Parrot. There has been a pri- 

 vate importation of some hundred South African 

 birds which I have purchased, also nine Mon- 

 gooses, with thirty tri-coloured Mannakins. 



I have no knowledge cf Liverpool arrivals 

 this month. 



THAT the Zoological Society, London, have re- 

 ceived during the past two months a wonderful 

 assortment of stock, they are also receiving 

 shortly from India four Leopards, a Sloth Bear, 

 one Nilgar, one Cheetah, Lion and Lioness, two 

 black Bucks, and one Sambur. 



THAT the Zoo Viper Pit outside the Reptile 

 House is One of the great summer attractions 

 at the Zoo. 



THAT I am still awaiting particulars from Mr. 

 Jordan, World's Zoological Trading Co., of 

 the consignment of live stock promised on the 

 20th September. 



THAT I have just been informed that three collec- 

 tors for The World's Zoological Co. left Ant- 

 werp by'last week's mail steamer for Boma. 



They will now have an epportunitiy of in- 

 specting Mr. Jordan's Game Reserve adjacent 

 to the railway. Doubtless they are going to 

 the Ituri District in search of the Okapi. I 

 wish the unfortunate men well. 



Printed by W. ]. Hasted & Son (T.U-), 306, Mile End Road, E. 1., and Published by J. D. Hamlvm, 221, St. George's 



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