4950 THE ZooLocist—JUNE, 1876. 
year. The high price of hay, which is a very large article of con- 
sumption in the Gardens (upwards of 250 loads being required for 
the annual supply), was one of the chief causes of this excess. 
The extraordinary expenditure of 1875, which amounted alto- 
gether to £7479 9s. 3d., was mainly caused by the new Lion-house, 
to which a sum of £6966 Is. 3d. was devoted. Other smaller 
special works in the Gardens required a further expenditure of 
£463 8s. in 1875. 
Buildings and Works.—The expenditure on the staff of work- 
men, together with the labour and materials required for ordinary 
repairs in the Society’s Gardens in 1875 amounted to £2160 4s. 9d. 
Under this head are included all the items necessary for the main- 
tenance of this branch of the Society’s establishment in a perfect 
state of efficiency. Besides this, as already mentioned, a sum of 
£7429 9s. 3d. was expended on the following special Works and 
Buildings :— 
= ay PL F ee a ( 
New Falcon’s Aviary (balance) —- : 25 0 0 
Repairing damages of Explosion (balance) i 
—— 30 8 8 
Works or 1875. 
New Lion-house and works connected 
therewith - - - - - 6966 1 +8 
New Framing-ground and Potting-sheds 2382 16 7 
New Tortoise-house’~— - - - =| ADB 53 
New Water-main - - - E - 94-8 6 
— 73899 0 7 
£7429 9 8 
It will be observed that the greater part of this sum has been 
devoted to the new Lion-house, which, as mentioned in previous 
Reports, the Council have had long in prospect, and of which the 
main portion has now been completed: when thus complete it will 
form, it is believed, by far the largest and most perfect building for 
the accommodation of the larger Carnivora ever erected. The total 
length of the main building is 228 feet, exclusive of the porticoes ; 
the width, up to the front of the dens, 35 feet. The dens are 
fourteen in number, and will accommodate, if necessary, as many 
pairs of animals, each animal having a separate inside den. The 
larger dens measure 20 feet by 12. The smaller are about 12 feet 
