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Pheasants' Aviary Numher 



, ZOOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY BULLETIN 



No. 20 Published bv thk New York Zoological Society January, igo6 



THE PHEASANT AVIARY AND ITS' INMATES 



"THE completion and filling of the Pheasant 

 Aviary in the New York Zoological Park, 

 makes the sixth great installment of birds thrown 

 open to the public, — the others being, in the order 

 of their completion, — the Aquatic Birds' House, 

 Ducks' Aviary, Fixing Cage, Ostrich House and 

 large Bird House. 



The Pheasants' Aviary is a long building, cor- 

 ridor-like in structure, extending north and south, 

 with twenty-two endosures'for birds opening into 



runways measuring 8 x 24 feet, all facing the east. 

 At each end of the building is a large room healed 

 by a stove and aflfording room for thirty-two 

 additional inside cages, all of which connect with 

 outside wire-covered runways. This aviary is in a 

 sense a double one, having a roomy dove-cote above 

 each of the pheasant enclosures, for a collection of 

 birds of aerial, perching habits, interfering in no 

 way with the more terrestrial pheasants. The 

 onlire Ijin'lding and all the copings dividing the 



THE I'HE.\SANTS- AVIARY. 

 Located on the western side of the .\quatic Mammals' Tond. 



