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of Antwerp examples of the most characteristic animals 

 of their country. 



This house contained four giraffes : one born in 1871, 

 one in 1873, one in 1875, and one in 1876 (in 1897 the 

 Society refused an offer of 25,000 francs for one) ; some 

 camels, common and Burchell's zebras, Indian and 

 Sumatran rhinoceroses, and two Indian elephants. 

 There is a stuffed giraffe, which died in 1898, after 

 having been in the menagerie eighteen years, and the 

 skeleton of an Indian elephant, which lived in the 

 Gardens from 1852 to 1880. 



The bear dens are next to be seen, near a duck- 

 pond, upon which were swimming hundreds of ducks. 

 There are four polar bears housed near here. Passing 

 the wapiti and moose yards, we come to a large aviary, 

 outside which is a monument to Darwin. More than 

 100,000 pairs of birds are annually bought and sold in 

 these Gardens. 



Next in order is a large children's playground, 

 replete with swings for their amusement. There is a 

 very picturesque rockery for wild sheep and aurochs, 

 and American bison enclosures backed with rockwork. 



A most imposing lion house is now encountered, 

 after passing through a fine sculptured entrance. It 

 will be found very roomy inside, and it contains a large 

 number of dens, besides three large circular open-air 

 cages. In one of the latter were housed no less than 

 seven lion-cubs, all about six months old. Opposite 

 the outside cages M'-ere a couple of brindled gnus, a pair 

 of leucoryx antelopes, and an Oryx beisa, grazing in 

 paddocks. In a house close by were lodged a pair of 

 full-grown hippopotami and a baby born in the Gardens. 



