88 THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS OF EUROPE 



A pretty walk through an avenue of trees brings us 

 to the Zoological Garden (entrance fee fifty pfennig). 

 The first cage is found to contain small rodents, and this 

 is followed by a bird-of-prey aviary. We next come to 

 the Kindersport Spieliylatz (children's playground). 

 A man in uniform came and unlocked the swings, 

 when there was a perfect rush of children to circular 

 swings, horizontal swings, vaulting-horses, and hori- 

 zontal bars galore. How well they cater for children's 

 amusement in Germany ! In a Chinese pagoda, 

 painted red, were a pair of Bactrian camels and their 

 baby, and close by a duck-pond was a large aviary 

 containing pigeons, pheasants, turkeys, fowls, and 

 gulls in separate jDens. In the next enclosure were 

 some moufilon, two rams having enormous horns. 

 Opposite a large museum of natural history specimens 

 is an owl house, with a picturesque tower above it. 

 The next house is strikingly built in the Moorish style, 

 with dome and minarets, and contains, besides a tapir 

 and two striped hyaenas, an amusing couple in the 

 shape of an elephant and a black pony, which caress 

 and play with one another. It was a very pretty 

 sight to see the two together, evidently very fond of 

 each other. On the keeper appearing and giving him 

 the order, the elephant knelt down and saluted with 

 his trunk. 



A lion house had the walls of the outside cages 

 hand-painted to represent Eastern scenery ; this had 

 a pretty effect in conjunction with the living animals 

 within. The house contained a pair of lions from 

 Somaliland (the male in magnificent coat), a pair of 

 tigers, an ocelot, and some parrots. 



