338 Animal Life 
RAVENS are always represented at the Zoological 
Gardens, but they do not thrive there 
remarkably well, not attaining to that 
length of days for which they are pro- 
verbially famous. Probably their quarters do not 
afford sufficient scope for exercise. ‘These used to 
be one of the large compartments at the ends of 
the crows’ cages, now being adapted for monkeys. 
But when the smaller members of the crow tribe 
were removed to the fine new aviary on the canal 
bank, the ravens were not transferred there also, as 
their behaviour among weaker species of birds was 
considered rather too doubtful a quality. They are 
accordingly lodged in the small structure formerly 
devoted to the eagle-owls, near the Hastern Aviary 
and polar bear’s den. This, however, is not quite 
all that is required for such fine birds, and it is 
to be hoped that the Society will ere long be able 
to provide a third great aviary wherem 
ravens, the carrion-feeding hawks, the larger 
gulls, the storks, and similar birds with 
Ravens. 
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WALLAROO. 
bank, in company with some peacocks and 
another favourite of the Japanese, the white- 
necked crane (Pseudogeranus lewcauchen). carrion-feeding propensities and a prudent 
No more effective birds could have been objection to tackling anything of their own 
chosen for the position, and they seem very 
happy in their commodious and picturesque 
size, may be associated together. The Raven 
and the Caracara Hawk of South America 
quarters. The wild cranes of this species 
will probably find their equanimity con- 
siderably disturbed by the present war, for 
thei headquarters are in Eastern Siberia, 
and they are also found in Corea and Japan. 
we 
Tus animal (Macropus robiustus) is one of 
the largest Kangaroos, and fre- 
quents mountainous situations; 
it will, therefore, particularly 
benefit by the use of the hilly run which 
by the time the present notes appear will 
have been enclosed at the back of the 
kangaroo sheds. his new playground will 
give ample scope for exercise for even the 
larger kangaroos, since they do not seem 
disposed, even when space is allowed, to 
make the very long leaps of which they 
are capable when hunted. But, of course, 
their present quarters are ridiculously small, 
and it is gratifying to find that the Society 
taken the advice tendered in the 
“Saturday Review” a year ago and utilised 
the shrubbery-covered hill for a kangaroo 
playground. 
Wallaroo. 
has 
Photos by W. P. Dando, F.Z.S. 
can certainly be kept together, as the present 
writer has seen both at Clifton and in Paris, 
and the various kites and buzzards would 
doubtless be far better off in a large aviary 
together than in the small compartments of 
the new Kites’ House, which is not so well 
adapted to its tenants as most of the 
Society's new buildings, although it would 
do well for the smaller owls. 
RAVEN. 
