174 THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS OF EUROPE 



The Garden is arranged in a circle round a central 

 parrot-house. The visitor will be much struck by a 

 particularly beautiful aviary for wading-birds, well 

 arranged and well devised. There was plenty of grass. 

 with tiny little houses dotted about, little trees to 

 shelter under, and little rivulets to wade about in. 

 The birds in it really looked happy, and I could have 

 stood and watched them working and playing in this 

 quaint spot for an hour. In a large and clean- looking 

 house were three beautiful giralies of the southern 

 form, now so rare in collections. These animals had a 

 spacious outside paddock. Close by were two Indian 

 elephants in outside enclosures, and a young African 

 tusker. The collection of bears was remarkably com- 

 plete. It was amusing to watch the brown bears in 

 their bath. In most Gardens the grizzlies and others 

 are not provided with bathing-tanks, but are housed 

 in pits or cages with drinking-water troughs only. 

 This is somewhat unkind, for brown bears, and black 

 ones, too, love the water as much as polars do ; and on 

 a hot day, if they have a tank, they will be found in it 

 more often than not. 



Although this Garden is not large, it possesses a 

 collection very complete in many species of animals, 

 which are housed in the best-built and altogether the 

 cleanest and best kept houses in any Zoological Garden 

 in Europe. The animals, as a natural consequence, 

 look well and happy, and many are bred in the Garden. 



