CHAPTER XXIX 



ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN, MOSCOW : DIRECTORS, MESSRS. 

 BAUMWALDT AND HOLTZ 



How nice it was to get away from the cold wet north 

 and see the sun again at Moscow ! There was scarcely 

 a cloud in the sky on the occasion of my first visit to 

 the Zoolooj'ical Garden at Moscow. 



After entering, on payment of thirty-two kopecks, 

 one is confronted by a large boating lake, with cages 

 of small birds and animals on the right bank. But, as 

 usual, let us keep to the left, and, passing some 

 vertebrse and jaw-bones of a gigantic whale, the first 

 house that will be encountered is the lion house, con- 

 taining, amongst other things, a bay lynx of America 

 {Felis riita), and a serval (ever snarling), a magnificent 

 pair of large snow leopards from Thibet, and a common 

 leopard with three tiny babies. In another cage to- 

 gether are two hysenas, one dog, one wolf, and one 

 bear. The next house contains bears, and there is a 

 monkey house close by containing, amongst other 

 things, a flying fox. In a paddock in the Garden, 

 next to a Thibetan kiang, or wild ass, is a specimen of 

 the newly discovered Prejevalsky's wild horse. This 

 animal came out of the herd imported by Carl Hagen- 

 beck, and from the same herd came the specimens of 



