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by photography. Of its living contents, the most conspicuous were 
the tall and superbly-dignified flamingoes who stalked majestically 
over the green carpet, and from their lofty stilts looked down dis- 
dainfully upon the flock of gulls that paddled in the pool and 
squabbled over bits of food as if such a feeling as dignity was to 
them unknown. 
On the continent there are two more flying cages of this type, 
one of which is at Paris, in the Jardin des Plantes—a beautiful 
structure, architecturally—and the other is to be found at Rot- 
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terdam. ‘The latter was erected by the late Dr. A. Von Bemmelin, 
for many years Director of that beautiful Garden. His was the 
first ever constructed, and so completely is it a part of the forestry 
of the Garden that wild herons actually build their nests and rear 
their young in the tree-tops that surround it. 
We intend to erect a Flying Cage in our Zoological Park, 
ina charming spot that nature has prepared for it. To make it 
as large and as perfect as we wish to make it, and to stock it with 
the various flocks of showy and beautiful birds which we wish it 
to contain when the opening day arrives, will cost between $4,000 
