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WILD ANIMALS IN THE BOTANICAL GARDEN. I 
Having recently learned from Mr. Fred F. Houghton that a 
cardinal bird was seen on Christmas day here in the Garden, 
d that h 0) 
and that he has also seen a snowy it not be amiss t 
pi permanent record some of the facts with regard to our 
bird-population. The ‘ mone a a about which the Evening 
Mail was good enough t years ago, died 
last winter! He was born’ in the Zoological Park and did not 
know enough to go south to find a wife. He lived a bachelor 
He on three or four esl here in the Garden, learned to eat all 
at he had never seen before and probably 
died an a unnatural on for the feathers of a mocking-bird were 
o! 
e roof a 
house, and among the capitals - the columns in front of the 
Museum. 
A horned owl occasionally comes at twilight of a winter's 
evening to greet us with his who! who! whoo! and whenever there 
