NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 105 
cats and members of the Marten Family, it is beyond human 
power to keep a large collection such as this building con- 
tains without a certain amount of wild-animal odor. 
Most difficult of all collections to settle satisfactorily in a 
modern zoological park or garden is the great ommium 
gatherum of small species—and some large ones, also—which 
fall within the meaning of the term ‘‘small mammals.’’ 
The number of mammalian miscellanea which can not have 
buildings all their own is really very great. In addition to 
that there are always with us a considerable number of 
young and tender animals which require small quarters, and 
close attention. The visitor will therefore always find in 
the Small-Mammal House a great array of viverrine ani- 
mals, of tropical squirrels and other small rodents, of muste- 
lines, the nasuas, the small marsupials, young leopards, the 
lynxes and their relatives, baby bears, and many other 
species. 
Attention is invited to the great variety of cages in and 
around this building, of which there are five different types. 
The total number is 176. All those on the western side are 
adjustable as to their bottoms and sides, so that it is easy 
to throw several cages into one, and make cages either 
very long or very high. The idea of the collapsible cage, 
and also the general plan of it, has been copied from the 
model developed and in use in the Zoological Garden of 
Frankfort, Germany, by Director A. Seitz, to whom this 
acknowledgment is justly due. It will be noticed that 
every animal in this building enjoys the use of an outdoor 
cage, which connects directly with its interior quarters. 
Of such an odd mixture of animals as we are now to con- 
sider, anything like a perfect systematic zoological arrange- 
ment is a practical impossibility ; but as far as it is possible, 
we will take up the animals by groups. 
On the whole, the most striking animals in the Small- 
Mammal House are the small cats and lynxes. Of the 
spotted cats, the Serval, (Felis serval), of Africa, is one of 
the rarest. Its long, slender legs, small head, slender body 
and round spots proclaim it a near relative of the cheetah. 
The Clouded Leopard, (Felis nebulosa)—The dense and 
humid jungles of Borneo contain a beautiful tree-climbing 
leopard whose markings are laid on its sides in large, el- 
liptical patches of pleasing pattern. This is the Clouded 
Leopard, so delicate in captivity that only one out of every 
four or five becomes acclimatized outside its native jungles 
