NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Tufted Duck. — Usually about twenty of these little diving Ducks 

 may be seen on the reservoirs during the winter. 



Great Crested Grebe. — Resident in the district all the year 

 round, nesting annually on the Penn Ponds, and during the winter 

 they become quite numerous on the Putney reservoirs. Last winter 

 as many as twenty of these handsome birds were congregated on the 

 various reservoirs. 



Little Grebe. — Often seen on the Penn Ponds and on the river 

 between Putney and Barnes. Nested successfully in the reservoir 

 grounds in 1908. 



Common Gull. — This species is becoming a much more numerous 

 winter visitor ; during the earlier portion of this year they became 

 quite common on the Thames at Putney, &c. Noted one on the 

 Penn Ponds during November, 1908. 



Lesser Black-backed Gull. — Observed one on the river and 

 reservoirs at Putney, April 24th-27th, 1908, my first record of this 

 species in the district. — William A. Todd (62, Festing Road, 

 Putney). 



"A List of the Zoological Gardens of the World." — Referring to 

 the article on this subject by Capt. Stanley S. Flower in 1 The Zoolo- 

 gist' (ante, p. 161), your contributor has omitted to mention the fact 

 that there was a large zoological garden in Hull. This was opened 

 in 1840, and consisted of about seven acres of land. It was situated 

 on Spring Bank, and contained many valuable animals. In its latter 

 days various non-zoological attractions were introduced to secure 

 support, and the garden was abandoned about 1862, the site now 

 being built upon. The fountains, " ruins," various trees, &c, which 

 existed in the grounds were transferred to the Hull parks. — T. 

 Lennard (Municipal Museum, Hull). 



OBITUARY. 

 Edward Hamilton Aitken. 



The death occurred at Mornington Place, Edinburgh, on Sunday, 

 April 25th, of Mr. Edward Hamilton Aitken ("Eha"), a well-known 

 writer on Indian Natural History. 



Mr. Aitken was born in 1851 at Satara, where his father, the 

 Rev. James Aitken, was a missionary of the Free Church of Scotland. 



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