EEE 4: Z00 NOTES. 
Described and illustrated with photographs 
By W. P. Danpo, F.Z.5. 
THE photograph of the new ape house will 
give our readers a fair idea of 
this very substantial building, 
which has been provided for 
one of the chief attractions of the Society’s 
Gardens, the anthropoid apes—perhaps the 
most attractive and interesting of all the 
groups of mammals which can be kept in 
captivity, and at the same time one of the 
most difficult for proper treatment. The 
portion of the building devoted to the animals 
has been divided into four roomy compart- 
ments, which it is believed will provide ample 
accommodation for a series of the principal 
anthropoid apes—the ourang, the gibbon, the 
chimpanzee, and, it is hoped, the gorilla. 
The main feature of the new building is the 
entire separation by a glass screen of the 
part appropriated to the spectators from that 
in which the animals are lodged, whereby it 
The New 
Ape House. 
will be possible to keep the animals in a higher 
temperature than that allotted to the spectators, 
and also to prevent them infection by external 
influences. This plan has been lately adopted in 
several ape houses built in Holland and Germany, 
and will, the Council trust, be found to answer 
its purpose in the present instance, although it 
is to a certain extent a matter of experiment. 
The building cost £6,881 to erect. One of the 
present inhabitants is a proboscis monkey—the 
only one in Hurope, and. never before seen in 
England. 
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A very fine pair of Nestor parrots has just 
The Kaka been added to the collection at the 
Parrot of | Zoo, and it is a pleasure to see 
New Zealand. them in a spacious aviary behind 
the camel house, and not huddled up in a small 
cage in the parrot house. Semi-nocturnal in habits, 
the Kaka remains quiet and generally concealed in 
the imner enclosure when the light is good. They LASS 
are very sprightly in habits and are fairly tame. PROBOSCIS MONKEY (full face) 
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