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III. GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK. 

 1. Works and Repairs. 



Tn view of the reduced receipts during tlie past year the 

 Council thought that it would be prudent to restrict the 

 expenditure on new works in the Gardens within narrow 

 limits. The ordinary staff of w^orkmen was, however, 

 kept busily engaged on renewals and repairs throughout 

 the year, and the following amongst other less important 

 improvements were effected. The remaining portion of 

 the Kangaroo- sheds were rebuilt and covered with a glass 

 roof, so as to correspond with the first section, which was 

 treated in a similar way in 1884. The Pheasantries were 

 repaired and re-netted. A new Water-main was laid from 

 the South Entrance to the Western Aviary. The roof of 

 the Hippopotamus-house was repaired and made good 

 throughout. During the winter a large quantity of clay 

 at the back of the Reptile-house w^as burned and converted 

 into ballast. 



Besides these works two other more important improve- ^ 

 ments were carried out by the Society's staff, and the 

 materials employed thereon were charged to Extraordinary 

 Expenditure. These were : 



a. The New Sheep-yard. 



The accommodation in the present Sheep-sheds being 

 insufficient, and it being evident that more space should 

 be given for the exhibition of these interesting animals, a 

 large circular enclosure has been constructed at the further 

 end of the Broad Walk, near the outer fence of the 

 Gardens. The house for the Sheep, placed in the centre 

 of this enclosure, has been covered with rock-work, and 

 makes a large elevated mound very suitable to the habits 

 of these rock-loving animals. It was hoped that the first 

 tenants of the new Sheep-yard w'ould have been some 

 Big-horn Sheep from the Rocky Mountains {Ovis cana- 

 densis), which the Council were expecting to receive last 

 summer. These animals failing to arrive, the Sheep-yard 

 is for the present occupied by a family of the Burrhel 



