ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
HOUSE FOR DEER 
Opposite this installation are 
some open-air cases containing the 
lynx, cheetah, and several cats. On 
the left of the main avenue are 
situated the large duck pond, con- 
taining white and black swans and 
a variety of ducks, and also the 
sealion pond, which is concrete 
lined. On the right are the Indian 
blackbuck and South African 
springbuck camps_ with rustic 
This is followed by the 
Pheasantries—ten large open air 
cages with night houses—for game 
birds and pigeons. Here are located a collec- 
tion of Chinese pheasants and South African 
game birds, including crested and crowned 
guinea fowl, francolin of six species, bustard 
of four species, including the large giant or 
kori bustard that weighs up to thirty-five 
pounds. 
houses. 
The large Flight Aviary nearby measures 
135 feet by 38 feet, and contains mulberry and 
macrocarpa trees. Here are located four kinds 
of peafowl, including the albino, or white; the 
ibises, herons, storks, gulls, ete. Three blocks of 
paddocks contain several species of deer, in- 
cluding the red deer of Europe, the Indian 
hog deer, rusa and sambar deer and the fallow 
deer. A block of eight smaller paddocks con- 
tain a collection of Australian marsupials— 
wallabies and kangaroos. All species of deer 
and kangaroos breed well here. 
The Bear House contains American black 
bears, gifts of the New York and Philadelphia 
Zoological Societies, polar bear, the brown bear 
of Europe, and the Alaskan bear. 
The Lion and Tiger Houses contain seven 
lions and lionesses, and a fine pair of Bengal 
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tigers. Lions breed well here, al- 
though the cubs have had to be 
reared by tame dogs on two oceca- 
sions. 
Below these buildings is a Con- 
Stove well 
stocked with hot house plants—ferns, 
To the right of this 
is a block of eight large paddocks 
servatory or House 
orchids, ete. 
for sheep and goats, including the 
Barbary sheep, the mouflon of Sar- 
dinia, the Himalayan tahr, and the 
llama and guanaco of South America. 
PORTION OF LARGE DUCK POND 
The new Monkey House which follows, and 
already has been mentioned, contains monkeys 
from India, America and South, East and West 
Africa. It includes a fine big example of the 
chimpanzee, a black spider monkey and a full 
grown Abyssinian colobus monkey ; putty-nosed, 
Campbell’s, and patas monkeys from West 
Africa and three species of mangabey from the 
same region, which with Maloney’s guenon and 
the Angolan and South African vervets com- 
plete a fine collection of South African monkeys. 
Below the Monkey House is the Giraffe House 
and Paddocks. Here are a fine pair of South 
African giraffes and a pair of dromedary camels. 
Paddocks for ostriches and emus, and another 
set for pigs, follow. Among the latter are 
the African warthogs and bushpigs, also the 
South American peccary and the Madagascar 
river hog. 
The cages for small mammals lie between the 
Giraffe House and the Pachyderm House, and 
contain dingoes, jackals, wild dogs, wombats, 
mongoose of various kinds, the American wood- 
chucks and prairie dogs, and the curious South 
African antbear or aardvark (Orycteropus ater ), 
