.| OURANG-OUTANG. 
ZOO NOTES. 
Described and Illustrated with 
Photographs by 
W. P. Danpo, F.Z.s. 
It is really regrettable to have to announce 
Death of the death of the only suryiv- 
the Ourang- ing specimen of the Ourangs 
outang. which were deposited in the 
new Ape House. The animal had not 
been on the sick list many days be- 
fore it died from congestion of the liver 
(a disease which mostly takes off these 
apes), and not an affection of the lungs, 
which is the cause of more mortality 
among monkeys than any other disease. 
This ourang was never a healthy specimen, 
and his death, following so soon after that 
of his companion and the loss of the 
proboscis monkey, is most unfortunate. It 
is to be hoped they will both soon be 
replaced by more robust specimens, as 
nothing more attractive than a really 
robust and lively adult ourang could be found for the new Ape House, except, of 
course, an adult gorilla, which would indeed 
y/o 
be a great attraction. 
THE stock of bears at the Zoo is a large and varied one, and is made up chiefly 
Indian ¢ 
Isabelline but as they advance in age they 
Bears grow less tractable, and when 
full grown lose their good temper altogether 
and become dangerous; then they are hurried 
off to the Zoo. In an article in the 
French Encyclopedia (Chant”) the history 
of an unmusical procession at Brussels is 
narrated. A part of the show consisted 
of a car, in which was an organ played 
by a bear. Instead of pipes, the instrument 
contained a collection of cats, each confined 
separately in a kind of narrow case so 
that they could not move; but their tails 
were held upright and attached to the 
jacks in such a manner that, when the bear 
touched the keys, he pulled the tails of 
the parties enclosed and produced a most 
mellifluous mewing and wailing, in the 
C clef we suppose, treble, counter-tenor, ete. 
The organist himself, perhaps being invited 
by the same machinery, utters a bass accom- 
paniment. 
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by donation. Many travellers bring home with them pet baby bears, 
ISABELLINE BEAR. 
