THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL PARK 



order to see them all. Some of the most beautiful birds 

 in the collection are the golden and silver pheasants of 

 China, now acclimatized successfully in British Columbia 

 and in Oregon, the Amherst pheasant, the beautiful Soem- 

 mering or copper pheasant of Japan, the Impeyan pheas- 

 ant of India and the exceedingly rare Mongolian pheasant 

 of Turkestan. Above each of the pheasant enclosures a 

 roomy dovecote provides for a collection of pigeons, with- 

 out interfering with the pheasant runs below. 



The steps at the left of this aviary lead to the Camel 

 House (39 on map), where the two-humped or Bactrian 

 camel may be ridden by visitors in the winter time. In 

 summer he sheds his coat and is not in his best form. 



The Llama House adjoins the Camel House on the north 

 and exhibits the llama, alpaca, guanaco and vicuna of South 

 America, animals related to the camel family, but smaller 

 and without a hump, and valued largely for their wool. 



Behind the Llama House, in an extensive range contain- 

 ing a small lake, is a beautiful herd of the white-tailed 

 Virginia deer. 



To the right of the Llama House one may overlook the 

 Wild Fowl Pond and descend to investigate the cages of 

 the otter and of the odd coypu rat of Central and South 

 America, which abut on the Pond near the center of its 

 western bank. The totem pole and house of the Tlingit 

 Indians of Cape Fox, Alaska, presented to the Park by the 

 late Mr. E. H. Harriman, are also in sight from this point. 



The Indian hangul deer and Florida white-tailed deer 



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