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THE ADDAX. 



wliicli gaze over tlie top with case) without pre- 

 venting a complete circulation of air. The 

 smaller stalls arc divided by sheet steel sur- 

 mounted by bars. The walls are tinted a c(mi|, 

 grayish green. This seems the best color. The 

 floors of the stalls are cement, sloping gradually 

 to the catch basins. Each stall is provided witli 

 a porcelain bowl for food and another for water, 

 so that sanitary conditions at all times can be 

 maintained in a most satisfactory manner. The 

 temperature can be regulated with the greatest 

 accuracy; the system of hot-water heating being 

 regulated by mechanical means. The stall-fronts 

 are a radical departure from the chain-netting 

 used so extensively in the other buiklings, inas- 

 much as iron bars have been used. Of these 

 stalls eight are I2.\i6, twelve are 10x16, and four 

 are 19x24 feet. These large enclosures have been 

 equipped with iron-front structure, capable of 

 resisting the great strength of an elephant, rhino- 

 ceros or hip]iopotamus. Specimens of these 



animals, when it is possible to get them, will be 

 housed liere until the Elephant House is built. 



THE COLLECTION. 



The Antelope House was opened to the pub- 

 lic, with every stall occupied, the Society 

 subscribing the value of the entire list of speci- 

 mens, amounting in round figures to $15,000. 



Two of the large stalls are now occupied by an 

 immense bull eland, and a pair of the finest 

 giraflTes which could be purchased. The eland 

 stands fully six feet at the withers, and weighs 

 about two thousand pountls. He is a fine, 

 healthy animal, carrying a superb pair of horns 

 about two and one-half feet in length, which with 

 his long dewlap give him an imposing appearance. 



The Society was fortunate in securing so fine 

 a specimen of the largest of the bovine antelopes. 

 Once very abundant in the dry plains of South 

 Africa, it is now extinct in ('a\>i.- Colony, Natal, 



