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ichneumons, and an Indian civet cat. In cages at the end of 

 the room were kept a condor, a harpy eagle, and a Chilian eagle. 

 Beyond this was a turfed piece, then came the carpenters' 

 yard (14) ; on the east side were the dog and fox cages, 

 containing Esquimaux, wolf, Hare Indian, and Chinese black- 

 mouthed dogs ; common, cross, black, and American foxes ; 

 and raccoons. 



On the lawn in front of the llama house, and opposite the 

 deer enclosures were the dens for large quadrupeds (11), tenanted 

 by a pair of leopards, a Cape lion, a striped and a spotted hysena, 

 a young tigress, a puma and leopard in the same cage, two 

 cheetahs, two sloth bears, and a polar bear. Near this was a 

 shed (13) with enclosures for goats. In the farther angle (on 

 the plot behind the diving birds' house) were the sties for 

 peccaries (16), of which the collared and white-lipped species were 

 exhibited; westward were some movable aviaries (17) with gold, 

 silver, and ring-necked pheasants, partridges, red-legs, and black- 

 cock. Later this was called Monkey Green, from the monkey 

 poles (18), to which certain species were fastened during the day 

 in favourable weather. In front were the otter pond (19) and a 

 paddock for tortoises, of which four species were exhibited, 

 and on the west of the poles was a wirework cage containing 

 a bearded vulture. 



In the monkey house (20), with open-front cages on the site 

 of the present eagles' aviary, were an agile gibbon, mangabeys, 

 patas, green, mona, and lesser white-nosed guenons, wanderoos, 

 rhesus, bonnet and pigtail macaques, a black ape, a Barbary 

 ape, baboons (not to be identified), a young mandrill, and some 

 drills. What is now the otter pond was then the beaver enclosure 

 (21), and the old kites' cages (22) contained kites, peregrines, a 

 moor buzzard, a honey buzzard, even then "not of frequent 

 occurrence," common buzzards, an unidentified South African 

 eagle, and Egyptian vultures. The aviary " for small and middle- 

 sized birds" (23) is still standing, but is used as the civets' house. 

 Part of it was devoted to British species — the hooded crow, 

 jackdaw, magpie, starling, missel thrush, thrush, blackbird, haw- 

 finch, greenfinch, chaffinch, tree sparrow, linnet, lesser redpoll, 

 goldfinch, redbreast, woodlark, bearded titmouse, yellowhammer, 

 cuckoo, little bittern, sparrowhawk, kestrel, hobby, short-eared 



