434 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1907. 
At the time of my visit in October there were about 3,500 animals 
in the garden. The number is constantly varying by reason of the 
active traffic in animals that goes on there. In the month of Au- 
gust, for example, the aviaries and reserve cages of the garden often 
contain 50,000 to 60,000 small, exotic perching birds whicli are after- 
wards bought by dealers and amateurs. 
The greater number of the animals are obtained from purchases 
made from captains of vessels or from sailors who come from the 
Indies, Africa, America, etc.; at Antwerp they are purchased directly 
by M. L’hoést; at Marseilles purchases are made by Mr. Auguste 
Charbonnier, at Bordeaux by Mr. Marius Casartell. 
The monkeys, some 300 in number (a good many being in reserve 
cages, to which the public is not admitted), are installed in a large 
house, lighted from above and having on its southern side a large 
exterior cage of fine appearance. This house has a large central 
hall with five separate octagonal cages and a certain number of 
cages along the sides separated from the public by glass. 
I noted two young orang-outangs and two young chimpanzees 
dressed in red or blue vests, but apparently not in as good health 
as those at Manchester or Bristol.¢ 
There was also in the monkey house some 30 young Cynocephale, 
the only monkeys that go out into the exterior cage, and then only 
during summer; a few years ago some of the lemurs died of cold, 
apparently because they were left out too long in autumn. 
The “palace” for large carnivora is an imposing structure of 
rather heavy appearance but very richly fitted up. At either end 
large entrances, with posts in the form of lion caryatides, give access 
to a large gallery having a double row of columns supporting a fine 
ceiling; in the middle of the western wall is a marble catch basin 
surrounded with green plants and the busts of former directors. 
Along the eastern wall are cages for the Felida, lighted from above 
and arranged like those in the hon house at Dublin; they communi- 
cate, but not freely, with exterior cages, three of which are large and 
in the form of rotundas. (These cages are washed out with plenty 
of water every day.) The lions and tigers kept here frequently 
breed, but not as regularly as at Dublin and Bristol; a pair of 
jaguars, however, has for the last six or seven years brought forth 
a young one each year. 
The food of these animals is usually horse meat, but once a week 
they are given mutton or beef, which, it is said, fattens them better 
than an exclusive diet of horse meat. The large Felide fast every 
Saturday. 
“The orangs here sleep on the floor upon a bed of hay; the chimpanzees 
upon a shelf raised above the surface of the floor. 
