Zoo Notes 
THE WanbdEROO Monkey here depicted is 
one of a pair which took up their quarters in 
the New Ape House, where lately resided the 
Silvery Gibbon, whose death we chronicled 
last month; but they have now moved to the 
Monkey House. Both animals are extremely 
shy, and it was only after many visits 
and a great amount of patience that the 
accompanying photograph was taken. The 
Wanderoo is about 25 inches in height, and 
with its tail 
about a yard 
long. 
Wa 
SELous’s An- 
THHOPE, as 
readers of Sir 
Harry John- 
ston’s articles in 
the last volume 
of ANIMAL Lirr 
will know, is a 
water-dwelling 
but not exclu- 
sively aquatic 
bush-buck from 
the Upper Zam- 
besi and Lake 
Mweru. The 
photograph 
herewith repro- 
duced is of a 
female speci 
men at present 
caged near the 
Hippopotamus 
Pond. 
We 
THE Two Protograh by W. PR. Dando, B.S. 
MARSUPIALS 
on page 129 are familiar examples of the 
large kangaroos and the smaller forms 
known as wallabies. The former are really 
magnificent animals, the Great MKangaroo 
having been known to attain a length of 
about eight feet from nose to tail, and a 
weight of well over eleyen stone in some 
instances. This, however, applies to the 
male or “Boomer” only, the female being 
WANDEROO MONKEY, 
WBS) 
very much smaller. The “Boomer” is a 
formidable opponent to hounds, his great 
weight and power inclining him to fight 
rather than run, and when at bay he is 
dangerous to approach; for, although mar- 
supials are credited with a low intelligence 
on the whole, the Kangaroo is quite clever 
enough to know that man is a more serious 
adversary than his dogs, and will 
these to attack him accordingly. 
The wallabies, 
in their general 
habits, are 
much the same 
as the large 
kangaroos, al- 
though they 
shorter 
stouter 
There 
numerous 
species. 
leave 
are of 
and 
make. 
are 
ie 
THE Hirons 
AND EGRETS 
form other 
examples of 
natural and 
closely-allied 
eroups differing 
mostly in size 
and build, al- 
though in this 
- case the smaller 
are the more 
slender and 
elongated in 
form, the largest 
Heret (Herodias 
alba) beimg a 
very slender 
bird compared to the typical Herons, some 
of which it equals in height. As a rule, 
however, egrets are not so tall as the 
herons proper, and they also differ in 
their adornment of filmy plumes in the 
breeding-season. ‘These, as everyone knows, 
are always termed “ospreys” in the milli- 
nery trade, and have been the cause of 
wicked destruction of the birds. The species 
