The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-23 00:00:00

Arrivals at the Zoological Gardens.

(From Land end Wirt'er.)
There are not any of par icular inte2esl; nor, as remarked
on the last occasion, are valuable animals to be expected 31;
this sea.,on of the year, when the risk of transport is e°
much enhanced, as well as that of maintenance 11P°13
rival. We have chanced to learn that a mature °ening-
u'-an did ar ive,but died in the docks oa the following MI
and that the body of this valuable anima" was taken to the
Royal College of Su-geons, Lincoln's-inn-fields. At °l')
Gardens we have only to announce a young monkey, Prcr
cured upon an islet near Hong Kong, a your.; serval, "13
ocelot, and a common badger, in the class of mannealit4
and in that of birds another emu, and a pair of Ply-Pla
guans.
The monkey does not differ from the common rhedo °f
Bengal ; and we have also seen a monkey sent I,lrowiso
the Society's active correspondent, Mr. Consul Swiab°e'
kom one of the islands in the Chinese Sea, which appeare-
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to be identical with the common radiated monkey of Penitt:
sular India. As both of these species of monkey are Ter.',
commonly castled about in ships, we can only suppose tke"
in course of time some of them have got free and acllt",/:
plied, which is likely enough to be the origin of the natti,°'"
upon the rock of Gibraltar, which ass there now extinct or
very nearly so.
The serval cat is the tiger Loch-Z:4,7e of the Dutch colc-
nists of South Africa, as distinguished from their ordinary
bosch-kai,:e, which is more like the clams, or a large WOO-
grey domestic cat. It is a handsome animal, ta'l and 011
in figure, with large ears and rather short tapering tail
a pale fulvous colour, with round and elongated blac'
spots, somewhat sparsely disposed. We remark that the
newly astived serval-kitten is placed along with an old tflo
of the same species in the civet-house, where the two I,'"
amicably together.
The young cassowary which was hatched rather late
last
season, it being the first time that the particular speci°s:l
cassowary had bred in the gardens, is growing We° 4s
doing remarkably well, and it may be seen together -
male parent in the eland-house, contrasting greatly with
mature bird in its colouring, which is a pale fawn hue. 1.%
young of another species of cassowary, the moorul-,
were hatched in the preceding season, did not live;
has been found generally that the young of the largo bei;
Nipennate birds in captivity grow too fast for the.,
strength, the secretion of bony substance being defialolltito
the skeleton. But the present young cassowary bids fair,.
attain maturity. The progress of discovery has boa
markable of late years in bringing to light as many as :6u
different species, one only being previously known,
is now ascertained to be that inhabiting the island "0
Comm.a The New Guinea species is stated to haveo
caruncles in front-of the neck in which it resembles
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mooruk of New Britain. A fourth species has cartju
which are widely separated apart, and is only known fr°o
~c
a young specimen formerly in the Garken, the sktlV,l
which is now stuffed in the British Museum. A fifth :he
only a single small canticle, with much of yellow onii
bare
skin of the head and neck; and the habitats of 17°i
of these remain to be ascertained. Lastly, Australle,b°l4
also its cassowary, in addition to its emu, and some bi'i,ero
feathers of this bird from the Moreton Bay district vf",,f
exhibited at a late meeting of the society. A speciinettli-o
this bird was preserved by the late Mr. T. Wall, 113°110.0
to the expedition commanded by Mr. Kennedy. It
shot near Cape York, in one of those almost inapass-t...
gullies which abound in that part of the Australian C°Laialis
nent. This cassowary, when erect, stands about sft• P,of
—on the head is the usual large prominence or heltnolo,
a bright red colour, and to the neck are attached, like 1-)eich
six or eight round fleshy balls of bright blue and scer ell
which impart a very beautiful appearance. This V
specimen was unfortunately lost. In the ravine wher°oo,o
bird was killed, as well as other steep and
.stony 'l. of
of that neighbourhood, it wasseen sunning in companierad
seven or eight ; and, though very wary, its presence
vita
be readily detected by its utterance of a peculiar load ot
which is taken up and echoed along the gullies. )I°Wa to
the distribution of the Australian cassowary is f°llll,,i
extend considerably further south into the Queenslatlooe
Moreton Bay colony, it is not unlikely that we roil
see living e.aistples of it in the gardens. .13 ilia
In the largo aviary near the monkey-house, and 14-ir
furthest compartment of that aviary, there aro a 1)% the
nightingales, ono of which wo saw hopping about 111)°,t
snow, with tail erect, yell like a robin ; and as the 11,0`3010
division of the place was closed, we thought that 11°
have been left out by accident; but he knew his will iLtti,
enough, through a slight opening, and the two vic'r°oo
seen, quite lively and apparently iadifferent to the 'ootlf
When kept iu a warns room caged nightingales aro 'lOlll
iu good song long before this; but we have not yet
the notes of the cock-bird of the pair referred to.
•

MR. GUY, THE AUTHOR OF " GUI'S GEOagAri,l":;o3
and other well-known school-books, has recently
at the ago of eighty-three.teb
DEATH OF SIR JOHN WARRENDER. We ri/Irl4
to intimate the death of Sir. John Warrender, •"sotitt
of Lochend, which took place on Monday, 4t,DtisB 101,
near Bruntsfield House, Edinburgh, in his eigwie-00"
year. The deceased baronet, who was a deputy lietlDjuli
of
Haddiegtonshire, succeeded hfs brother, the Rigab., 0 ,
Sir
George Warrender, fourth baronet, in 1849.
twice married. By his first wife, a daughter Of tize Too
Earl of Lauderdale, he had a son and daughter, the lvic):100o
of whom, born in 1825, and wtio married in 1854;jeS,ItA
daughter of Sir Hugh Hume Campbell, now suee;
the title as Sir George Warrender. By his sec,°-,(lglite;
a sister of the second Lord Alvanley, ho haat' %Li ietlei
married in 1854 to Lord Binning. The deceased tiOni
was the representative of a family founded by 5 Ce'a-cbfo° va
long
burgess of Edinburgh, who having filled the °-tea -
Lord Provost and member for the city, was cl't-
baronet in 1715.—Edinburgh Evening Coura3t.