REMINISCENCES FROM THE MELBOURNE ZOO. 
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Zoo, a fine male with a glossy black coat of feathers, white tips to wings 
and tail ; and a female who is as demurely clad in grey as any Puritan 
maiden. Not long ago there was another fine male bird there, but one 
Sunday afternoon some wretched man poked his umbrella into one of 
The weather eye open. 
its eyes and gouged it out on to its cheek. When the cries of the by- 
standers brought a member of the staff on the scene the culprit had 
disappeared and could not be traced, but the unfortunate victim of his 
incredible cruelty had received such a shock that it pined and died in 
spite of all the skill and care that could be lavished upon it. 
