ZOOLOGISCHER GARTEN, DUSSELDORF 83 



an idea of the large number of animals and birds in 

 the Garden. 



After passing the entrance-gate (entrance fee fifty 

 pfennig), the first pen on the left contains pheasants. 

 We next come to a pretty garden of flower-beds, with 

 a fountain in the middle, and close to a long line of 

 domestic-fowl pens and a rose-garden is the concert- 

 hall ; close by is a bird-of-prey aviary, and in front 

 of it a large Kinder spielplatz, or children's play- 

 ground, replete with swings of all sorts. Crossing a 

 bridge over a duck-pond, we come to a most amusing 

 little house of guinea-pigs. The house is in two 

 stories, and you can see the guinea-pigs looking out of 

 the windows upstairs. It looks just like a large dolls' 

 house. We then come to what appears to be an 

 ancient castle in ruins, and among these ruins capers a 

 huge flock of Barbary sheep. I should say that this is 

 the largest herd ever brought together in captivity. 

 I counted over sixty, including a large number of kids. 

 Next in order is a lion house, with outside summer 

 cages, containing lions, tigers, leopards, and j)umas, as 

 well as a handsome civet from West Africa, and a 

 striped hysena. 



Backed by an elaborate rockwork is a sculptured 

 lioness with cubs, very life-like. Opposite the lion 

 house is a large lake crowded with ducks and swans. 

 Next come foxes and wolves and two polar bears. In 

 the American bison enclosure young ones were born in 

 1890, 1892, 1894, 1896, 1898, and 1899. In the next 

 pen is a Shetland pony, and then comes a pen of yak. 

 Deer pens follow, with a small brook running through 



6—2 



