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collection, and opposite is a new house, costing £4,000, 

 for the reception of the anthropoid apes. 



Passing the western aviary, we come to the bears' 

 and hysenas' dens, always well filled. The camel house 

 and clock-tower come next, and then a large aviary 

 containing storks, herons, gulls, etc., many of which 



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build and rear their young. The pelican enclosure 

 brings one to the main entrance again. 



In this large Garden there are no less than sixty 

 houses, and in the above account of a walk round 

 many small houses and enclosures have been passed 

 over, but not forgotten. The number of visitors on a 

 fine Bank Holiday is 29,000, or about half the visitors 

 to the Berlin Garden on a fine Sunday evening. The 



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