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a foreign male, so the council procured a magnificent Nubian lion 
which gave a new activity to the production and originated a new 
stock. Up to the present time there have been born at the garden 
246 cubs, 127 of which were males, 112 females, and 7 in which the 
sex was not noted. 
The breeding of other great /elidw has not been as successful here. 
The Dublin Garden has not had during the last twenty years more 
than 6 or 7 tigers, one of which died from a nontuberculous skin affec- 
tion. Nething has resulted from the mating of these animals. The 
same be said as to the leopards, many of which have died here of 
cramps. 
On the contrary, some Cape hunting dogs (Lycaon pictus), which 
died two years ago (1904), gave birth to young in the garden for 
four successive years (1896, 1897, 1898, 1899). This is all the more 
interesting because these animals rarely breed in captivity. As the 
mother had difficulty in nursing her offspring, a trial was made in 
1897 of suckling them with a domestic dog. Under this regimen a 
young Lycaon reached the age of 5 or 6 months. The next year a 
young female was born and was kept in the garden in good health 
for five years. 
When I visited the garden at Dublin there had just been built near 
the lion house a new structure for small carnivora, which were previ- 
ously kept in the monkey house. It was a semicircular building, in- 
closing eighteen small cages, which by the removal of partitions could 
be transformed into nine large ones. These cages open externally 
upon a covered gallery for visitors, internally upon a parallel service 
passage. Each one is covered with glass and floored with wood 
treated with wax, the same as in the cages for anthropoids, and each 
has a small retiring compartment placed against one of the parti- 
tions 0.30 to 0.40 meter above the floor. The entrance to this can be 
closed by the keepers and is provided with a shelf upon which the 
animals may jump. 
The house for Herbivora, situated a little farther away on the same 
side, was constructed in 1899. Its plan is the result of the observa- 
tions and experience of a number of years and may be given as a 
model for similar constructions at the present time. It comprises a 
series of stables with a cement floor communicating with exterior 
paddocks which, like the stables themselves, are raised 0.30 meter 
above the surrounding ground. 
The house for llamas and camels, constructed in 1897 and to which 
has since been added a glazed portion for giraffes, has seven or eight 
stables arranged in form of a cross, each having an exterior paddock. 
Two of these are specially arranged for females in gestation or 
for sick animals. The llamas and camels have bred there several 
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