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THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS OF EUROPE 



variety of ducks, mostly sheldrake, swimming upon it. 

 There is a good bird-of-prey aviary, containing, 

 amongst other birds, a remarkably fine condor. 



The next house contained zebus, wapiti, Japanese 

 deer, and black-and-white African sheep with fat tails. 

 The extraordinary abundance of fat on the tails is a 



BARBARY SHEEP, GHENT. 



provision of nature, and enables tlie animal to go 

 without food for a considerable period when making- 

 long marches from one patch of long grass to another, 

 which is of frequent occurrence in tlie arid deserts 

 where they live. I frequently gave as little as three 

 arms'-lenixth of common American slieetinff for one 

 fat-tailed sheep in Somalihind, Nortli-P]ast Africa, 



