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The Pied HornbUl 
quite plump and in decent feather when 1 despatclied them tc 
their new home at tlie Manchester Zoo, where. I trust, they wi'I 
have a lonj;' life and interest many. 
I found them so interesting;- and entertaining' that, but foi 
the fact that my own aviary accommodation was already planned 
out for the coming' season, I should have kept them. Their 
drollieries and familiarities are really fascinating-, and their 
dietary presents no difficulty. With me their menu consisted of 
boiled rice, a little biscuit meal, apple and a little raw meat — 
the meat and apple I passed through a sausage machine (coarse 
cutter), and then mashed altogether, finally leaving it in small 
I'lmt,, /•;. I). I'nut. 
Pied Ho!-iil)ills ( jin rnile plniimpe). 
lumps about the size of a hazel-nut; they like it this way best, 
though they make no difficulty about making a hearty meal wdien 
their food is left in the mass, but under the latter condition sonip 
of it gets scattered about. They readily take all our small 
fruits whole, toss them u]) in the air, catch them and by a dow-n- 
ward, inward jerk pass them to their throats and swallow them, 
afterwards ejecting stones and other indigestible portions: the>' 
lake all their food by this method. 1 must admit that 1 found them 
