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pens, without enough room to move about. An arma- 

 dillo is also to be seen in this house. 



On leaving the ostrich house, the camels' and llamas' 

 enclosure is next encountered. The houses are prettily 

 painted in bright colours. The collection of llamas is 

 very complete. We pass on to the old aviary contain- 

 ing the pheasants ; a large new pheasantry, on the 

 same plan as that of the one in the Zoological Gardens 

 at Hanover, is now under consideration. Here are 

 also to be found specimens of Amherst's pheasant 

 and the vulturine guinea - fowl from North - East 

 Africa. 



Leaving the restaurant on your left, you pass 

 through a young chestnut avenue and come to the 

 antelope and deer houses, standing in a long row. The 

 small deer and the hardier kinds of antelope are found 

 here. Waterbuck, nylgai, and two white-tailed gnus 

 are to be seen. Pere David's deer is one of the occu- 

 pants of the deer sheds. Other deer found are the Vir- 

 ginian deer, axis deer, sika from Japan, and a very 

 grotesque -looking deer from China — Reeves' muntjac 

 [Cervulus Reevesi). On the other side of these sheds 

 is the large - deer enclosure, with pretty houses 

 attached. Here are found wapiti from America, and 

 the Altai, one with a curious malformation of horn. 

 At the end of the deer enclosure is the old bear pit, 

 with two fine big pens. This was a present from the 

 late architect, Koch. There is also a cage and tank 

 containing two polar bears ; a grizzly bear in the next 

 cage, with rockery and flowing water ; a pair of South 

 American rare spectacled bears {U. ornatas), Malay 

 bear, Thibet bear, Japan bear, an Indian and a Western 



