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the light and freedom ! And why should they not be happier than 
any of their congeners in Africa? ‘They are safe from the rifles 
of the game-killers, hunger and thirst they know only by hearsay, 
and if they are ill their meals are cheerfully sent to their rooms. 
To show the richness of the various collections in this marvel- 
lous gathering of living creatures, we may point out that when 
the new dens for the wolves and foxes were completed, in 1887, 
the gathering of the Canide scattered about the Gardens revealed 
30 specimens, representing 20 species, from many different parts 
of the world. The collection of bears seldom contains fewer 
THE POLAR BEARS’ DEN. 
than nine species. The Antelope House is always well stocked 
with representatives of the most beautiful and conspicuous of the 
many African species known to science, such as the superbly hand- 
some sable antelope, the hartebeest, the beisa antelope, the nagor, 
harnessed and sing-sing antelopes, the gnu, the eland and others. 
In the London Gardens it is possible to see a handsome hog. In 
1896 one of the compartments of the Swine House was occupied 
by ared river hog, which really was a beautiful animal. He was 
of good size and pleasing proportions, and instead of the mean, 
clam-shaped ears of most hogs, his were thin and spatulate, and 
