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The collection of large feline animals displayed in this building 
is certainly second to none. 
In 1896 it contained one great rarity, seldom seen in captivity, 
even in its own land. It was a full-grown ounce, or snow 
leopard, of the Himalayas and Thibet, a specimen which was as 
good-tempered as it was beautiful. In contrast with the black 
leopard in the adjoining cage—a creature with a satanic counte- 
nance and diabolical temper—it seemed fairly angelic. 
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INTERIOR OF THE LION HOUSE. 
Whenever you visit a Monkey House, and find within it a score 
or more of rare and beautiful marmosets, hapales and owl mon- 
keys from South America; of lorises, slow lemurs and flying 
foxes from the East Indies; a fine collection of lemurs, and the 
wonderful—and_ problematical—aye-aye, from Madagascar, you 
may know that you are in a zoological garden of the first rank; 
for you will find such rare species as the above in no other kind. 
As to the big African baboons, the macaques, capuchins, spider 
monkeys and the like—they are common stock; the others are 
the “‘preferred.’’ As you are about to enter the long, low, 
many-windowed Monkey House of the London Gardens, you will 
notice in a cage outside a fine, robust tcheli monkey (sacacus 
