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thing applies to other animals, such as Rabbits, as the progeny of 
a wild and a white domesticated one are always of the former 
strain; or, again, pair two widely-separated varieties of Pigeons 
together, and their young are often like a Blue-rock or wild Pigeon. 
Prof. Ewart has about fourteen Hybrids, of various ages, and 
is working out several interesting points about them. 
I left again for London the same night, and then went on to see 
the Dublin Zoological Gardens, but their animals, especially the 
Bears, are kept in very small dens, and have 
Dublin Zoo. little room for exercise. They had a pair of the 
Gardea^. rare Cape Hunting Dogs, which bred in the 
Gardens, and one young one was brought up, 
the first, I think, ever reared in captivity in Europe. 
I again returned to London, and went to see Mr. Robb’s 
Pheasant farm at Liphook, in Hampshire, a beautiful neighbourhood. 
He has two farms, not far apart. The total number of Pheasants 
he keeps on them is 10,000, and the number of eggs laid during the 
season 250,000. He had just supplied one order of 3000 Pheasants 
for Paris, which cost the buyer somewhere about £ 700. The birds 
are in long, low wire runs, which are shifted every week to fresh 
grass, and they have no shelter of any kind, yet look as healthy as 
possible. 
I now had to see about sending the stock out to Melbourne, and 
eventually, after much correspondence and delay, arranged to send 
them direct from Hamburg and Antwerp in the Fleiisbuvgh. That 
vessel called at Falmouth, in Cornwall, so I took the animals 
obtained from the London Zoological Gardens to that port on 
November 5th, and shipped them on board, together with food for 
the voyage, and gave full written instructions to the captain as to 
their care. I then made arrangements to leave on November nth, 
by the s.s. Orotava , but before sailing was able to give an illustrated 
lecture on “ Bird Life in Australia ” at the annual meeting of the 
British Ornithological Union, at which about forty members were 
present. As I took my magic lantern and slides to England with 
me I was enabled on many occasions to use it, both to forward the 
interests of our Gardens and also of the colony. The illustrations 
were much appreciated. I have learnt much that will be of 
considerable use to our Society, and made notes of all recent 
improvements that can be carried out in our Gardens. I had to 
travel a great deal, but did so mostly at night, so as to get my round 
finished in time to get here before the Christmas holidays. 
The following is a list of the stock I obtained and sent out by 
the s.s. Flensbnrgh :— 
From Carl Hagenbeck’s, Hamburg.—Two Bactrian Camels, 
two Polar Bears, two Condors, one Peccary, two Black 
Vultures, two Eagle Owls, four Sheldrakes, two Maguari 
Storks. 
