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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 omnium 

 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. 



