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The proboscidians are represented by four Indian elephants and 
one African elephant. Their house has a broad public corridor from 
which open eight large stalls. Without are two large paddocks with 
deep pools. In the same house are found a two-horned Indian rhi- 
noceros, an enormous single-horned Indian rhinoceros, and a very 
young African rhinoceros. Another young Indian rhinoceros is in 
the Prince of Wales collection. 
The tapir house, heated in winter, comprises a paddock and an 
interior stable provided with a large tank. It contains the two spe- 
cles of tapirs—Indian and Brazilian. Near this is a fine series of 
specimens of the zebra, including all the existing species, various 
species of wild asses, a Prjevalski’s horse and a remarkable hybrid 
between Burchell’s zebra and a mare, obtained from the Transvaal in 
1902. 
The swine family, such as the wart hogs, the red river hogs, the 
babiroussas, the peccarys, etc., are in a building that will no doubt 
soon be replaced by one better adapted to the needs of these animals. 
The female hippopotamus exhibited here was born in the garden in 
1872; she is placed in a warmed stall which communicates with a tank 
nearly 3 meters deep and with an outer paddock which has another 
still deeper tank. 
The giraffes, very delicate animals, requiring special care, are 
represented by a female of Giraffa camelopardalis imported from 
southwestern Africa, and by a young pair of G. c. Antiquorum from 
the-Egyptian Soudan. These animals are placed in three large stalls, 
having the ground covered with fine sand, without litter (except for 
bedding), heated during winter to 10° C., and communicating with 
large inclosures open to them only in summer. * * * 
birds.—The Passeres or perching birds are represented by a large 
number of tropical species distributed in four aviaries. 
The western aviary, 57 meters long, dating from 1851, but recon- 
structed in 1903, has fifteen separate compartments and a large cen- 
tral cage; each compartment has a retiring cage covered with glass 
which can be closed and heated in winter; in front of this is a little 
garden plat, part of which, covered with sand, has a little circular 
bathing pool, while the remainder, covered with grass, has three or 
four shrubs of various species. 
The eastern aviary comprises a long row of cages which were 
repaired and improved last year and which can now be heated by a 
well-devised hot-water system. They serve as a permanent resi- 
dence for a large number of tropical birds and as winter quarters for 
certain others placed during summer in other cages. 
The birds of paradise and the humming birds are represented only 
by Paradisea apoda, P, minor, and Cicinnurus regius, which are placed 
