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THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



species, the peculiar forms of their plumage, and the intense brilliancy 

 of colour for which they are remarkable above every other part of the 

 animal kingdom. 



At the end of the season this house was taken down and 

 re-erected in what is now the Middle Garden, where, till the 



PLAN OF THE GARDENS, 1851. 



end of 1852, it served to contain the humming-bird collection. 

 For this exhibition a separate charge of sixpence was made 

 to the general public, which was taken by Gould. After 

 being put to various uses the structure was made into the 

 parrot-house, and the birds were removed thither in 1854 

 from the older building in the South Garden, which was 



