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The animals of the menagerie are at present all in a healthy condition. They com- 
prise Angora goats, fat-tail sheep. Llama-alpacas, 13 fallow deer, with 3 fawns, a Sumatra 
deer, Ceylon elk, several kangaroos and emus, koalas, an iclineumon, monkeys of various 
species, a considerable variety of singing birds, of which the canaries, goldfinches, and 
linnets have reared broods, whilst the thrushes are nesting ; Californian quail, which also 
increased ; native companions, 16 black and 6 white swans, English and silver pheasants, 
Murray pheasants, Australian eagles, hawks, and several other smaller animals. 
Some eagles and waterhens have been shipped for interchange to the Zoological 
Society of London. An importation of South African game, through the friendly 
co-operation of the Government of the Cape Colony, may be soon expected. 
Contributions towards the menagerie have been gratefully received from the following 
donors : — 
Allan, T. M., Warrnambool 
Baker, C., Collingwood 
Baxter, llcv., Kew 
Beamish, Eev. Dr. J. T., Warrnambool 
Berse, Samuel 
Buttler, A. E., Geelong 
Cameron, Hugh, Prahran 
Care, Capt., of the Panama 
Clow, Bev. Mr. 
Coppin, Honorable G., Eiehmond 
Craigg, S. K., Enfield, Middlesex 
Cropper, W., St. Eilda 
Cumberland, B. 
Embling, Dr., M.L.A. 
Frazer, Hugli, Welshpool 
Degraves, Will. 
Haselgrave, Brighton 
Heape, Chai'lcs 
Hick. George 
Hooper, Mrs. 
Hugham, Allan, Avoca 
Isaacs, B. 
Johnson, Hon. G. W^., Kyneton 
Keith, Arcliibuld 
Kelly, Will. Laneel. 
Khull, Miss Mary, Toorak 
Lamoile, Toomk 
Layard, Capt., St. Kilda 
Mallett, D., South Tarra 
Murcutt, llobert 
Nash, B.. St. Kilda 
Newell, Hooper and Stevens 
Parson, .1. G., Brighton 
Penson, B., Prahran 
Pendergast, W. E., Snapper Point 
Perkins, G. B., Brighton 
Perry, B. D., Melbourne 
Pritchard, Capt., of Camilla 
Biehes, Capt. C. F., of Gazehound 
Biley, Thomas, Sandridge 
Bobertson, Dr., Qneenscliff 
Eoope, Honorable Mrs. 
Bussell, Mrs, Lydia, Emerald Hill 
Salkeld, Bichmond 
Sewell, Dr. 
Slade, Lieut., B.N. 
Simpskin, Queenscliff 
Smith and Adamson, South Yarra 
Smith and Clare 
Thompson, Henry 
Topp, Miss Alice, South Yarra 
Twoose, B. F., Bichmond 
Wadsworth, B,, South Yarra 
Webber, F. B., Gardiner’s Creek 
Wehl, Dr. Edward, Mount Gambier 
Wild, Miss 
Wilson, Edw., London 
Winglesworth. 
Tlie canary birds having considerably increased in number, a trial was made under 
the sanction of the committee for carrying out the original design, to naturalize foreign 
singing birds, by setting them at liberty in our shrubberies; the experiment seemed at first 
to be attended with success, but gradually, although well provided with food, the number of 
the liberated birds decreased, and at last they entirely disappeared. In an attempt to 
naturalize the more hardy thrushes, we may anticipate to be more successful, particularly if 
at the proper season, the birds are at once transferred to suitable spots in the forest ranges 
or perhaps to some of the islands. Of thrushes, not less than forty -six were obtained through 
the extreme liberality of Edward Wilson, Esq., and the disinterested zeal, the circumspect 
care, and patient perseverance of that gentleman, for the introduction of the treasures of the 
animal kingdom into this country, cannot receive a , sufficiently high eulogium To his 
exertions, supported hj some friends of the colonies in Britain, we owe principally the donation 
0 oui llama-alpaca flock, and we shall probably be soon indebted to him for rendering the 
^mon a eiiizen o t e Australian rivers; some pheasants were likewise received from Mr. 
Wi son, of which five were transferred to Phillip Island, where Mr. McHafly declared him- 
n e f The Angora goats have 
eased by four the llama-alpacas by seven; the fleece of one of the former yielded 
some of the large llamas furnished a greater weight of coarser wool; this supply fafls 
considerably short of the produce obtained from some of the genuine alpacas of the govern- 
ment s flock in New South Wales, two of the best animals having respectively fumisLd 12 
