144 1'HE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS OF EUROPE 



enclosure met with. After this one finds a number of 

 wapiti and other deer, and then one comes to a large, 

 flat, open space, upon which stand several large 

 buildinofs. There are bear dens and beer dens, the 

 latter predominating. There is an enormous concert- 

 house, built in 1896, several aviaries, a monkey house, 

 with outside cages, fitted w^ith swings and rocking- 

 horses, containing, besides the apes, some fine lemurs 

 and a gigantic ant bear. There are kangaroo and 

 ostrich sheds, yaks, zebus, and American bison enclo- 

 sures, and an amusing rabbit-hutch. 



Close by a racecourse is a huge white tower, from 

 the top of which a view of the whole course can be 

 obtained. In the lion house were a pair of very white 

 lynxes from East Turkestan, which I do not remember 

 having seen in captivity before. There was a black 

 leopard with young ones (a decided novelty), and a 

 puma with young, all born in the Garden. 



At this point a man with a villainous - looking 

 countenance appeared, wrested my camera from me, 

 and locked it up in the lion house. 



I found that the further north-east one goes in 

 Europe the more one is looked upon with suspicion by 

 the keepers, especially when they see one's pocket-book 

 come out. 



There was a pretty pair of cariboo with a calf, and 

 close by them some wild-goat and sheep pens. There 

 was a huge flying aviary (one of the best I have seen), 

 with large trees and shrubs growing in it, and a brook 

 running through it. It contained gulls, cranes, storks, 

 and cormorants. 



One of the prettiest houses in this Garden is that 



