6o THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS OF EUROPE 



and in front of them is a duck-pond well stocked with 

 ducks and swans. Next we find an ostrich and 

 cassowary house, built in the Eastern style. Here I 

 quite mistook the grunt of the ostrich for the dull roar 

 or grunt of the lion, as I had often done before in the 

 African jungle. Close at hand is a fine lofty bird-of- 

 prey aviary. Outside nearly all the cages were 



KANGAROO. 

 (I'hoto by Ottoniar Anscliiitz, Berlin.) 



coloured pictures of the birds, with a map of the world 

 below them showing the distribution of each. Passing 

 a small seal grotto and thatched house for llamas, we 

 come to the Palais Egyptien, or elephant and giraffe 

 house. The paintings on the outside walls represent 

 the natives of foreign parts coming to offer to the city 



