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giraffe, for which the sum of 16,000 marks had to be 

 paid when it was about two years old. It is a specimen 

 of the Southern form ; ' South ' Africa gives one a wrong 

 impression as to its habitat. There are no giraffes now 

 alive in ' South ' Africa. The Kahhari Desert is the 

 most southern Hmit of the giraffe in Africa to-day. 



We now reach the deer sheds, containing wapiti, roe 

 (many albinos), red, fallow, rein, axis, sika from Japan, 

 and deer from the Moluccas. There are the inevitable 

 herd of American bison, a fine collection of llamas and 

 alpacas, some camels, yaks, buffaloes, zebus, asses, and 

 Burchell's zebras, an ant-eater near some very old elms, 

 some giant tortoises from the Galapagos, and the ever- 

 present Shetland ponies. 



The magnificent concert-house, which has been added 

 to of late and redecorated, contains the largest rooms 

 in the city of Frankfort. Here are given two concerts 

 daily by the Garden's own band of thirty-five per- 

 formers. In the summer two bands play. Ten special 

 symphony concerts are given each year. 



In September, 1901, three giraffes, forty ostriches, 

 seven lions, five jaguars, black and ordinary leopards 

 were exhibited, but the above have now nearly all 

 been sold. 



In 1892 the following animals were bred in the 

 Garden : gnu, nylgai, water - buck, jaguar, wolves, 

 guanacos, etc. 



Every May or June the Garden exhibits for some 

 days its collection of Lepidoptera, one of the richest 

 butterfly collections on the Continent, containing, as it 

 does, about 25,000 specimens, including 1,500 Hes- 

 perides and more than 2,000 Geometrw. 



