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This was necessarily a slow process; but the whole collection 

 was removed without the slightest injury to the men employed 

 or to the lower animals. 



The beasts were put into their new quarters from the 

 front, as is shown on Plate 80. This was the easiest part 

 of the business, for as soon as the animal was trapped the 

 travelling box was loaded on a trolley and taken across to the 

 new building. There it was hoisted up, so as to rest on the 

 den floor and the barrier, with its door against the open door 

 of the den. When the slide of the travelling box was raised, 

 the animal, tired of its narrow quarters, bounded forward, only 

 to find retreat cut off behind. It was then passed along from 

 den to den by the sliding doors in the partitions till it reached 

 its destined abode. 



Frank Buckland, in describing the operations, said he had 

 been told by Bartlett that the old method of shifting animals 

 was to set fire to some straw and thus start them, or else to 

 throw ropes round their necks and when they were half- 

 strangled drag them into the den. Curiously enough the 

 first-named plan was adopted in shifting two of the tigers 

 belonging to the Prince of Wales (now Edward YIL). They 

 were brought home in small cages in the Raleigh, and at Ports- 

 mouth it was decided to put them into larger ones before 

 sending them to London. " Captain Jocelyn," said a special 

 correspondent, " could not evacuate them into their present 

 more roomy cages without resorting to fireworks, after having 

 ineffectually tried syringes." 



The following list from Land and Water (January 22, 

 1876) gives the Menagerie stock of large Felidce when the 

 house was opened, numbering the cages from the door near 

 the antelope house : ^ 



1. A Persian lion, purchased June 6, 1873. 



2. Kathiawar lioness, presented January 8, 1874. 



3. Indian leopard, presented August 30, 1867; Nubian lioness, pre- 



sented June 19, 1873. 



4. Indian leopard, presented August 30, 1867. 



5. Clouded tiger, Burmah, purchased January 6, 1875. 



* The list is taken from the Council's Eeport, but the writer (Frank Buck- 

 land) made it more valuable by showing where the animals were quartered. 



