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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



Park in a large studio. The studio room 

 now in use in the Lion House will serve well 

 in demonstrating the practicability of Mr. 

 Seton's idea, and the need for so large and 

 serious an establishment as he proposed. If 

 this offering to art proves of real value and 

 importance, if it proves to have been a wise 

 investment of the money and thought it lias 

 cost, there is no saying what influence it will 

 exert on the future. Time alone — and the 

 annual output of work — will reveal whether 

 or not it is the right thing in the right place. 



The Studio is situated at the northeastern 

 corner of the Lion House, with northern 

 light. The model-stand is a wire-fronted 

 cage 19 feet long, 9 feet deep, and 7 feet high, 

 with its floor raised 2^ feet above that of the 

 room in front. The entire back of the cage, 

 the north end, and the top are composed of 

 solid plate-glass, backed by steel netting as 

 a factor of safety. The roof glass is opaque, 

 the remainder clear. For ventilation, the two 

 plates of the north end swing open, like doors. 



The working space in front of the model's 

 cage is a room 165^ x 20 feet, without plat- 

 forms of any kind. Across the hall from this 

 room is another of similar size, which is for 

 the use of workers in the studio itself, and 

 which, as soon as possible, will be provided 

 liberally with individual lockers. 



To control the light, dark olive-green 

 shades, on rollers, easily controlled from the 

 front, have been provided for both the back 

 of the cage and the north end. The cage- 

 front is of steel-wire netting, of large mesh, 

 similar to that in use for the cages in the ex- 

 hibition hall. As the result of much experi- 

 menting, the painting of this netting renders 

 it as inconspicuous and as free from high 

 light on the horizontal wires as it has been 

 possible to make it. 



At the proper point, three artists and two 

 sculptors were invited to visit the unfinished 

 studio, as an advisory committee on its 

 equipment, and the adoption of regulations 

 regarding its use. Those who were able to 

 respond on the day appointed were Messrs. 

 Daniel C. Beard, Eli Harvey, and Carl Run- 

 gius. Mr. Seton and ]\Ir. Proctor were un- 

 able to attend. Everything done since that 



occasion has been in strict accordance with 

 the practical advice then received by the Di- 

 rector. The regulations that have been 

 adopted regarding the use of the studio are 

 precisely as proposed by the gentlemen 

 named above, who, it is but fair to say, gave 

 the matter long and careful consideration. 

 From the first, the Society has taken the 

 ground that it is for the artists and sculptors 

 themselves to say how the use of the studio 

 shall be regulated. 



At present it is impossible to offer a sched- 

 ule naming the animals that will be placed 

 in the studio on certain days. By means of 

 the shifting system in the Lion House any 

 animal can, vmder proper conditions, be taken 

 from its cage by the shifting car, and trans- 

 ferred to the studio cage. Of course every 

 such transfer and return involves some labor, 

 very correct management, and the anxiety 

 inseparable from the handling of savage and 

 dangerous animals. These factors create a 

 new series of difficulties to be overcome in 

 rendering the Lion House Studio of the 

 greatest use to the greatest number; but 

 when the wants of the studio have been fully 

 revealed they will certainly be met. w. x. h. 



CRAWSHAY'S ZEBRA 



QN May 20 the Zoological Society received by 

 purchase from Mr. Hagenbeck two fine specim ens of 

 a very rare and odd-looking species of zebra, known 

 as Crawshay's Zebra (Equus burclielli craivshayi) . 

 These animals were imported last year from the 

 Kilimandjaro district of German East Africa, and 

 are now four years old. 



This species is one of the largest and handsomest 

 of the wild members of its genus, and so closely 

 resembles the rare Mountain Zebra, of South Africa, 

 that only those specially interested can note the dif- 

 ference between them. Both are marked on the 

 body and hind-quarters by very wide stripes of black 

 and white, without shadow stripes, but these speci- 

 tnens lack the cross-bars, or "gridiron," on the top 

 of the hind-quarters which mark the Mountain 

 Zebra (Eqiius zebra). Crawshay's Zebra is strongly 

 striped quite down to the hoofs, has a heavy dorsal 

 stripe, and also a longitudinal stripe under the body, 

 which is touched by the stripes of the sides. The 

 tail is marked throughout its basal half by broken 

 liars of black, and the tuft is all black. 



