498 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1907. 
there are raised every year numerous pheasants and partridges for 
hunting purposes. 
The kangaroos, as well as the deer, pheasants, and partridges, are 
in perfect liberty and seek and find their own food. They are never 
housed during winter, and it is only when the ground is covered 
with snow that any pains is taken to supply them with food; the 
emus and rheas alone have food given them during the entire year. 
All breed in a normal manner, and at the time of my visit, July 25, 
1906, the female kangaroos had young in their pouches, a rhea was 
brooding seven little ones born five days previously and I succeeded 
in photographing a male emu who was followed by a single chick 
two weeks old. I will add that at Tring, as elsewhere in Europe I 
believe, the young broods of rheas and emus suffer a heavy mor- 
tality; the adults, on the contrary, stand our climate perfectly well, 
but sometimes show phenomena of total albinism, of which I have 
seen three cases. As to the deer and kangaroos, they rear their off- 
spring perfectly well, and at Tring the multiplication of deer is so 
rapid that a certain number have to be killed each year. 
Last year, at Tring, one could admire a pair of Prjevalsky horses; 
unfortunately the male has since died. The female, bred to one of 
the stallions of the Duke of Bedford’s stock, has given birth to a 
colt which is now as large as his mother. 
THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN AT DUBLIN. 
The Zoological Garden of Dublin belongs to The Royal Zoological 
Society of Ireland, founded in 1830. This society, which has for its 
object “to form a collection of living animals on the plan of the 
Zoological Society of London,” comprises to-day (1906) 837 active 
members, 44 corresponding members, and 15 honorary members. It 
is administered by an elected council composed of 24 members, there 
being one president (the Rt. Hon. Jonathan Hoge), five vice-presi- 
dents, one secretary (Dr. R. F. Scharff), and one treasurer (Prof. 
A. F. Dixon). The council take a friendly breakfast together every 
Saturday morning, and I had the honor of assisting at one of these 
gatherings. It publishes annually for the general session of the 
society a very interesting report. 
In 1905 the total receipts of the society amounted to £4,502 7s. 7d. 
Among the details of these receipts are the following: 
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