i8o ANIMALS AT WORK AND PL A Y 



Parrots live longer than eagles ; three years ago one 

 died at the Zoo which came there before the Crimean 

 War. A fruit-eating bat which died in 1880, and 

 spent its life in the monkey house, was eighteen years 

 old. The doyen of the Zoo at present is an Indian 

 rhinoceros who is thirty-seven years old, and the next 

 oldest inhabitant is, if we are not mistaken, an ugly 

 water-lizard from North America, with rudimentary 

 legs and blind-looking eyes, which has been in the 

 collection for four-and-twenty years. 



