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liberated at tlie Royal Park, and also to beautify the Park, a large 
number of copses have during the last year been formed in the Park_ 
a large quantity of seeds and plants having been furnished from the 
Botanic Gardens for the purpose—and although the unusually dry 
seasons lately experienced have somewhat retarded the growth of the 
plants, yet the progress made, leaves no doubt of the ultimate 
advantage that will be obtained. 
The following is a detailed list of the animals introduced 
during the past year. 
6 Axis deer 
8 Ceylon elk 
2 Fallow deer 
1 Gazelle 
2 Madagascar sheep 
5 Russian sheep 
3 Secretary birds 
3 Victoria crowned gonra pigeons 
7 Californian mountain quail 
0 Madagascar quail 
The Council had hoped to have been able to include in this list 
upwards of 100 Angora goats, for the purchase of which a sum of 
£1200 has long been waiting in Mr. R. Philpott’s bands in London ; 
and Thatcher, the Society's travelling agent, was sent to England 
especially to take charge of these animals on the voyage out. 
Owing, however, to the delays inseparable from such enterprises, and 
the difficulties of communicating with any certainty with the owners 
of these goats, situated as they are in the remote districts of Asia 
Minor, this hope has not been realised, and it will probably be even 
yet two or three months before the animals can be expected here. 
The object the Council have in view in expending so large a 
sum of money on the introduction of the Angora goat, is the rapid 
establishment of that animal as a source of wealth in the colony. 
With the small experiment already made, the Angora goat has 
proved itself admirably adapted to the climate of Victoria, and pro¬ 
ducing as it does a heavy Ueece of valuable wool, for which there 
is always a steady demand, it cannot fail in speedily finding favour 
with the breeders of stock. Inaddition to these advantages, it possesses 
another, that of being able to subsist on such scanty herbage, that 
it will bring into practical utility land which for sheep is absolutely 
useless. 
The Council have great pleasure in being able to Hmgratulatc 
the Society on the continued success of the .Salmon experiment. 
2 Rufus-tailed pheasants 
5 English pheasants 
13 Ceylon partridges 
5 English partridges 
4 Ceylon peafowls 
3 Grey Indian geeBe 
3 Bar-headed Indian geese 
7 Paradise ducks 
2 Toui birds jp 
3 Indian partridges 
