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varieties. These varieties, which differ from each other in the colora- 
tion of the leaves or the fruit, were produced in this very garden 
either by predetermined selection or by the culture of accidental 
sports discovered in wild or cultivated plants. 
-The Clifton Zoo contained at the time of my visit 107 mammals, 
about the same number of birds, and a dozen reptiles. 
The great Felidw, represented by eleven lons, three tigers, one 
leopard, and two pumas, were placed in two large houses, which were 
found immediately to the left of the northern gate. The first of 
these houses, the new carnivora house, constructed five or six years 
ago, presents in front a series of fine large exterior cages freely open 
to the air both and above and upon three sides (pl. 11). These cages, 
ornamented with colored glazed bricks, communicate with the cages 
within the house, which is lighted from above and has its walls like- 
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Fic. 2.—Transverse section of lion house, Bristol Zoological Garden. 
wise faced with colored glazed brick, imparting an aspect of bright- 
ness and cleanliness that I did not often find elsewhere. 
The second house for large Felidw is a reconstruction (not yet 
finished in August, 1906) of the old lion house, which dated from the 
inception of the garden, and in which were exhibited the lioness 
Victoria, who gave birth to sixteen cubs in six litters (one, two, three, 
five, three, and two young), the lioness Lady to four, and the lioness 
Flo to six. In spite of these results, the administrative council 
resolved, in view of the age of the building, to reconstruct it, or 
rather to enlarge it, following the same general plan as that of the 
preceding building. But the council asked the architect to preserve 
in its primitive state the old facade, which had been covered with 
verdure by time. It is doubtless to this circumstance that is due 
the plan which I shown on figs. 1 and 2, and which seems to me ought 
at the present time to serve as a model for structures of this kind. 
