422 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Thirty-three, or a few more, animals of fourteen species re- 

 presented the Arctoidea, including a nice series of Bears, one of 

 which, identified as Ursus behringi, Herr Kraus told me was 

 thirty-four years old. A Kinkajou {Potos flavus) has now been 

 eight years in this menagerie, and the keeper told me that 

 another specimen lived here for ten years. 



The only representative of the Pinnipedia was one Seal. 

 This animal stands up in the water in its pond, with a kindly, 

 almost angelic, expression, and then, with its fore flippers, 

 suddenly splashes water over the visitors who are looking at it, 

 to the amusement of everyone who is not "in the line of fire." 



Insectivora and Chiroptera are not represented. 



Rodentia. — Sixteen species. Eight Capybaras make a fine 

 exhibit. 



Proboscidea. — Four Asiatic Elephants — a bull, two cows, and 

 a female calf born here in July, 1906. The Elephants' indoor 

 cages are paved with wood, this wood pavement being periodically 

 renewed. A fact worth recording is that the Schdnbrunn bull 

 Elephant in 1909, when in a state of sexual excitement, climbed 

 over the top of a stout iron fence 1*80 metres (5 ft. lOf in.) 

 high.* 



Perissodactyla. — Two Sumatran Ehinoceroses (both females), 

 two American Tapirs, three Chapman's Zebras, an African Wild 

 Ass, and some Ponies. 



Artiodactyla. — Among the Pecora the following may be 

 specially noted : — Magnificent specimens of the European and 

 American Bison, one of the former was born at Schonbrunn, 

 May 5th, 1910 ; a pair of very pretty, medium-sized domestic 

 Zebus from Mysore ; two Anoas ; three Addax Antelopes from 

 Tripoli, one of which had been ten years here — the Cow Addax 

 at Schonbrunn had horns of an unusual pattern, they lacked 

 the spiral twist characteristic of the species, and curved simply 

 backwards like the horns of the Sabre-horned Antelope {Orijx 

 leucoryx) ; a series of seven different breeds of European and 



* In designing cages for animals, it is very useful to have some data as 

 to what height of fence is, or is not, capable of keeping them within bounds 

 under circumstances of unusual excitement. A giraffe, when frightened by 

 dogs, has been known to jump over a fence 1-75 metres (5 ft, 9 in.) high in 

 the Calcutta Zoological Gardens ; vide Sanyal, ' Management of Animals in 

 Captivity,' Calcutta, 1892, p. 153. 



