. The Avicultural magazine . X^Jliiit^l ;i:ErAHY bird. Characteristic resting attitude. One leg is flexed and the toes contracted and MANTELLS specimen had lived eleven years in captivity. 071 Mantells AiHeryx. 339 was kept in the new ostrich house, then recently built in thenorth-east corner of the Gardens. The writer well remembers thisstructure; it contained five loose boxes and was paved with brick,and was used for housing the Societys Cassowaries. In later yearsit also contained a good series of Apteryxes — Apteryx oivem andA. axistralis, as well as A. via
. The Avicultural magazine . X^Jliiit^l ;i:ErAHY bird. Characteristic resting attitude. One leg is flexed and the toes contracted and MANTELLS specimen had lived eleven years in captivity. 071 Mantells AiHeryx. 339 was kept in the new ostrich house, then recently built in thenorth-east corner of the Gardens. The writer well remembers thisstructure; it contained five loose boxes and was paved with brick,and was used for housing the Societys Cassowaries. In later yearsit also contained a good series of Apteryxes — Apteryx oivem andA. axistralis, as well as A. viantelli. This interesting little buildingwas eventually pulled down to make way for the new zebra house,which was completed in 1899. Tlie public flocked to see the Apteryx. In the daytime sheslept in a square deal box, one side of which was hinged to alloweasy inspection of the inmate; there was also a back exit coveredwith a curtain of sacking. The bird was fed on earthworms, forwhich she used to probe in a heap of soil placed in the stall; shenever stamped her feet to bring the worms to the surface —thusexploding one more zoological myth. She
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