No perfectly accurate account can be given of the number per annum of poultry, game, and wild birds which enter Leadenhall and Newgate markets; but the following estimate was handed to us by a dealer who turns over 100,000_l._ a year in this trade. As the list takes no account of the quantity which goes direct to the retailer, nor of the thousands sent as presents, it must fall short of the actual consumption:-- Grouse 100,000 Partridges 125,000 Pheasants 70,000 Snipes 80,000 Wild Birds (mostly small) 150,000 Plovers 150,000 Quails 30,000 Larks 400,000 Widgeon 70,000 Teal 30,000 Wild Ducks 200,000 Pigeons 400,000 Domestic Fowls 2,000,000 Geese 100,000 Ducks 350,000 Turkeys 104,000 Hares 100,000 Rabbits 1,300,000 --------- Total 5,759,000 In addition to its dead game and wild fowl, Leadenhall market is quite a Noah's ark of live animals. Geese, ducks, swans, pigeons, and cocks, bewilder you with their noise. Intermingled with these birds of a feather are hawks, ferrets, dogs and cats, moving about in their wicker cages, and almost aggravated to madness by the proximity of their prey. The major portion of the live stock is designed either for sporting purposes or for "petting" and breeding, and do not belong to the commissariat department. Of the dead game and poultry, the seven railways bring to London about 7,871 tons weight in the course of the year.