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Australia and adjacent islands. — Kangaroos and wallabies of any species, koala or 

 native "bear," wombat, thylacine, dingo, " Tasmankin devil," phalangers or opos- 

 sums, bandicoots, echidna or "spiny ant eater," and platypus; cassowaries, emeu, 

 lyre bird, parrots, parrakeets, and cockatoos, fruit pigeons, megapod, brush turkey, 

 black swan, birds of paradise, etc., and large snakes and lizards. The living platy- 

 pus, or duckbill, is not represented in any American collection. It is somewhat 

 difBcult to procure and demands particular care as to quiet and special food in trans- 

 port, but hardly any animal would excite so general an interest or reflect more credit 

 on its collector. 



New Zealand. — Kiwi or apteryx, owl parrot, parrots, and tuatara lizard. 



General instructions. — The larger animals, all adult flesh-eating animals, and most 

 other species that are not gregarious should each be given a separate box or compart- 

 ment. The smaller monkeys may be shipped together, but the adults of the larger 

 species are likely to be ill natured and should be shipjied separately, as should also 

 antelope, deer, and sheep, even though young. The young of most other animals 

 may be shijjped together. 



An illustration of a large shipping box is given above, and detailed plans of the 

 same are shown upon the opposite plate. Similar boxes varying in size according to 

 the size of the animals to be transported can readily be made ])y any fairly good 

 carpenter and blacksmith. All boxes should be high enough to allow the animals 

 confined in them to stand erect. The inside should be smooth, all cleats, etc., 

 required to strengthen the box being put on the outside. Care should be taken that 

 no nails project inside. Except in metal-lined boxes, holes for ventilation should be 

 bored in the upper part of the box. No cracks should Ije left near the bottom, as 

 the animals would be liable to get their feet caught in them. 



The space in front, between the grating and the bottom of the box, should be kept 

 closed by a removable footboard, except when the animals are being fed or watered. 

 The rear door should be kept locked, all feeding and cleaning being done through 

 the other openings. 



A plan is given in the same plate of an iron scraper, which is the handiest imple- 

 ment for cleaning out the cages. It should be of a size and weight to suit the cages 

 in which it is to be used, the handle to be several inches longer than the cage. 



These directions and the accomjjanying plan call for some materials that can only 

 be had from a well-api^ointed hardware store. It is to be expected that in many 

 cases such materials can not be obtained, and that the plans will then be varied to 

 suit the occasion, stout bars of wood taking the place of iron rods, slats being used 

 instead of wire netting, etc. 



lions, leopards, and other large cats. — The box should be a little longer than the 

 animal and wide enough to permit it to turn around. The front end should be 

 closed by a grating of |-inch vertical iron bars, 3 inches apart. A space of 3 inches 

 should be left Ijetween this grating and the bottom of the box, so that a water pan 

 and food may be passed in. There should also be a frame covered with stout wire 

 netting to fit over the grating on the outside and prevent the animal from reaching 

 out. The rear end should have an opening the full height of the box and wide 

 enough to admit the animal. This should be fitted with a door sliding down from 

 above. A little straw or other like material should be put in the box for bedding. 



Bears. — Boxes for bears should be of the same style as for the large cats, but they 

 should be stouter and have a lining of sheet iron. 



Deer, antelope, sheej), and goats. — Boxes for animals having horns and hoofs should 

 he long enough to permit their stepping back and forth, and of a width sutficient to 

 permit them to stand comfortably, but not to turn around. The upjier part of the 

 front end should be made of slats an inch apart, and at the bottom shoukl l)e a slid- 

 ing door 6 inches high and the full width of the box. The sliding door at the l)ack 

 should be the full width of the box and high enough to admit the animal. Inside, 

 across the bottom, thin cleats, to give secure footing, should l)e nailed al)out 6 inches 

 apart. Sand should be scattered on the bottom, and over this a little straw. No 

 cracks should be left between the boards except in front, as the horns might be 

 caught in them. 



Kangaroos may be boxed in much the same manner as antelope, but the boxes 

 should be wide enough to allow the animals to turn around easily, and the rear door 

 be only wide enough to admit the animal. 



Hippopotamus and rhinoceros. — Boxes should be wide enough to allow the animal 

 to sway from side to side, l>ut not to turn around. The front end should be closed 

 with a grating of 1-iiich vertical bars, 5 inches apart. Two or three stout planks set 



