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Water-fowl, and in the woods the Scrub Turkey, which were hatched 
and reared in our Gardens, were apparently breeding, as we saw 
several of their nesting mounds. The Duke also kindly promised 
us a pair of Elands. 
I also went to Tring and looked over the the Hon. Walter 
RothsehihVs Museum, the finest private collection in existence, and 
also saw the Kangaroos and other stock he had in his Park, includ¬ 
ing Cassowarys and the New Zealand Kiwi. It is difficult to 
describe this Museum, it has so many rare and extinct forms in it. 
A good deal of time was also spent in the British Natural History 
Museum, at South Kensington, and I was there enabled to find two 
skins of the extinct Tasmanian Kniu. which had been collected in 
1838. and which I have named Dronueus dienienensis, as they differ 
from tlie Australian form in having the front of the neck and upper 
part of the breast, white ; as far as I know, these are the only two 
skins in existence. 
i also saw the type skin of the so-called Spotted Emu, but it is 
only a young form of the ordinary Droma.*us novre-liollandiie, we 
have had similarly marked birds hatched in our own Gardens. 
A visit was paid to the hatching ponds of the Wyresdale Fishery 
Co. Ltd., in Lancashire, and much information gained as to the way 
the fresh-water fish arc hatched in this countr\-. and their method of 
distributing them. I’hotographs were taken of the interior of the 
hatching houses, etc. I was also able to attend a meeting of the 
British Ornithologist’s Club, where they kindl 3 ' niade me a guest of 
the Club, and also one of the scientific'meetings of the Zoological 
Society of London. 
I linished my work by November, and made arrangements with 
the Zoological Socict_v of London to send a shipment of animals out 
to our Gardens in Januaiy. 
y\y visit to ICngland has been of much value; as, apart from the 
store of information gained and animals secured to send out, I was 
enabled to meet the jirincipal Zoologists there, and it is much more 
satisfactory <lealiiig with those one has met than with comparative 
strangers. 
I was laid up for a few days before leaving Loudon, brought on 
by so much night travelling and want of rest, Imt was finally enabled 
to leave on November 14th by the night train for l^aris, and next 
day visited the Jardin de Plantes and the museum connected with 
it to sec the type specimen of the extinct Black luuu from Kangaroo 
Island. 1 obtained a splendid Condor and a Bearded Vulture 
from these ('.aniens. I then visited the Jardin d’Acclimatisation, 
but they luul no duplicates of any value to us. 
Leaving by the evening train for Antwerp, 1 arrived at that city 
in the early morning, and spent most of tlie day at the Zoological 
<5ardens. hut found tlie 3 ' had disposed of most of their duplicates 
before the winter, so was onl 3 ^ able to obtain a fine pair of Ruffled 
Lemurs, which were sent on to London. 
I left the same evening for Rotterdam, and spent next dav, (the 
17th) there, but purchased no animals, but saw the efficacious way 
they make the floors of their Carnivora cages ; their lion house was 
quite new and a fine structure. They also had the largest ourang- 
ntan in captivity, it bent strong iron bars and was far more power¬ 
ful than a man. 
