ZOOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY BULLETIN 



No. l6 I'l lU.lSHEl) BY IHK NkW '^'o R K ZoOI,0(.KA I. SociETV 'JaUlldtV, / ij<^ ^ 



THE OSTRICH HOUSE 



OF zoological gardens, the world over, there are 

 really very few which indulge in the luxury of 

 a spacious building wholly devoted to the ostriches, 

 rheas, emeus, and cassowaries. Usually these 

 birds are divided between three or four very small 

 structures, and thereby the effect attainable by 

 one grand group is lost. 



Really, it seems a pity for any great vivarium 

 not to make an opportunity to exhibit under one 

 roof such a collection as our new Ostrich House 

 will very shortly contain, or indeed such as it contains 

 to-day. The members of the Order Ralila: — the 

 Ostriches and their allies — are so grand, so pictur- 

 esque, and of such jironounced exliibitinn value 



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