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exhibitions in its pool. It plays, in turn, the harmonica, cornet 

 and whistle, and finally ends its program with a bass solo. 



There are numerous rare birds — among them three king 

 penguins in full adult plumage. 



The ostrich farm at Stellingen is one of the most interest- 

 ing features of the Park. There are about 90 birds here, vary- 

 ing in age from three weeks to full grown birds. The shelter 

 consists of a long wooden building, without artificial heat, where 

 the birds are confined during the coldest of the winter weather. 

 These buildings open into large paddocks where the birds spend 

 practically all the day exercising in the open air. 



The only gardens where I saw animals being forced to live 

 in the open air, or in unheated buildings were at Hamburg, Bu- 

 dapest, and Edinburgh. The two latter Gardens are young, and 

 their handling of animals cannot be looked upon as anything 

 Out experimental for these localities, and I believe it is yet too 

 early to determine the claimed superior advantages of exhibit- 

 ing animals in unheated buildings. I did not see any garden in 

 Europe which handled its delicate animals any differently from 

 what we do here. Moreover, if statistics were available, it would 

 be found that the European gardens do not succeed in keeping 

 their animals alive any longer than we do, nor do they give the 

 animals nearly as much freedom. In central Europe, where the 

 climate is dry and much milder than in New York City, the 

 animals can stay out-of-doors longer without discomfort, but 

 when the weather is stormy they seek shelter just as readily 

 there as here. The animals have access to their outdoor cages 

 at all times, but I doubt very much if any but the hardier spe- 

 cies voluntarily spend all their time out-of-doors during the 

 winter months. They lay great stress on the fact that they have 

 acclimated many tropical animals, which no longer require heat- 

 ed buildings, such as golden baboons, rhesus, and Japanese red- 

 faced monkeys ; axis deer, elands, water-bucks, beatrix antelopes, 

 Indian sambar and barasingha deer, African and Indian ga- 

 zelles. We have also acclimated practically all these animals 

 mentioned, as well as a considerable number of others. 



Nowhere did I see any of the great apes or monkeys which 

 we consider delicate species living out-of-doors. 



I would not advise trying to keep any but the hardier spe- 

 cies of monkeys, tropical antelopes or deer in unheated buildings 

 during the winters such as we have in New York City. Without 



