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owing', as the Council believe, to their damp and cold 

 position. With the advantage of a warmer situation, the 

 Council hope that better success may attend the repro- 

 duction of these interesting birds during the present season. 



V. The thorough repair and improvement of the Im- 



peyan Pheasants' Inclosure. The inside of this 

 Inclosure has been planted with shrubs, and 

 covered with light soil, so as to give the birds an 

 opportunity of dusting. The whole of the old 

 upper network, being rotten and worn out, has 

 been necessarily replaced with new, and galva- 

 nized iron wire-netting has been used as a more 

 durable material for the bottoms of the divisions. 



The improvement thus made will, it is hoped, induce 

 these birds to breed more freely than they have hitherto 

 done in the Gardens. As the market value of the Im- 

 peyan Pheasant is considerable, there is every reason to 

 believe that the cost of these repairs (estimated not to have 

 exceeded £60) will, in the event of tolerable success with 

 the birds, be more than fully repaid to the Society. 



VI. The painting and thorough repair of the New 

 Aviary, performed during the summer and au- 

 tumn of 1859. 



VII. The building of a large and commodious Slate 

 Tank for the Japanese Salamander, at a cost of 

 £12. 



In concluding the portion of their Report relating to 

 works, the Council cannot omit to ask for the special 

 thanks of the Society to C. Clifton, Esq. This gentle- 

 man has not only placed his fine collection of Pea-fowls, 

 which embraces all the known species and varieties of these 

 birds, for exhibition in the Society's Gardens, but has also 

 erected, at his own expense, a convenient Aviary for their 

 reception. 



b. Menagerie. 



The very full Report given of the state of the Society's 

 Menagerie at the last Anniversary (every species then living 

 in the Gardens having been noticed in order under its 

 proper scientific name), renders it unnecessary for the Council 

 to go into minute particulars on this subject on the present 

 occasion. 



