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case require a great deal of money to be laid out upon it ; 
and secondly, ‘that it was placed in a very inconvenient 
situation, blocking up the centre of the Gardens, the part 
most resorted to on crowded days, and that the expediency 
of its removal had been frequently urged upon the Council 
by different Fellows of the Society. Under these circum- 
stances the course above spoken of was adopted: the 
Kagles’ Aviary was entirely removed in the course of last 
year, and the vacant space laid down in turf, forming a 
very desirable addition to the lawn in the centre of the 
Gardens. The larger series of cages was reerected on the 
basement of the old Monkey House, and now forms a 
very commodious Aviary for the Eagles. The smaller series 
was removed to a suitable spot on the eastern side of the 
South Garden, and converted into a second Aviary, wherein 
a fine series of Vultures belonging to the Society, along 
with some of the smaller Kagles, is very conveniently ar- 
ranged. 
(4) Better accommodation for the valuable series of 
hardy Rodents belonging to the Society’s collection has 
long been required. A convenient site presenting itself on 
the right-hand side of the new road leading to the Swine 
louse, a building adapted on one side for these animals, 
and on the other side forming an addition to the Green- 
house accommodation (which had been long wanted), was 
commenced during the autumn of last year, and has been 
recently completed. The amount expended on the new 
buiiding in 1866 was £187 4s. 1ld. The balance will 
be charged to the extraordinary expenses of the current 
year. 
(5) The sum of £153 13s. 3d. was devoted in 1866 to 
the continuation of the series of aviaries on the south side 
of the Parrot House in the North Gardens—in which a 
series of birds of the Crow-family (Corvidz), embracing 
several rare and little known species, is arranged. 
(6) A very strong and convenient iron fence, boarded 
at the bottom, has been erected round the paddock oppo- 
site the Zebra House, it having been found dangerous to 
let these animals out in the paddock when it was enclosed 
only by iron hurdles, as was previously the case. It is in 
contemplation ultimately to move the Elands to this situa- 
tion, so as to arrange the whole series of Antelopes in one 
building, and to transfer the Zebras and Wild Asses to the 
present Eland House. Whether Elands or Zebras be in 
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