CHAPTER II. 



A FEW BIG CATS 



Lopez, Jaguar; Chang and Eng, Snow 

 Leopards. 



IT seems to me that The New York Zoo- 

 logical Park is particularly fortunate in 

 obtaining fine specimens of animals, from the 

 residents in the Lion House down to the 

 smaller rodents in the Small Mammal House. 

 One particularly fine specimen of the cat tribe 

 is Lopez, a full grown male jaguar, noted for 

 his beauty of form, coloring and size, and 

 also for an act which has made him notorious. 

 He lives in a spacious cage of his own in the 

 Lion House, and his ceaseless pacing up and 

 down, to and fro, is like the coming and going 

 of the tide. 



There are times when, in spite of his clean, 

 well kept quarters and his good food, Lopez 

 does not seem happy, but it is impossible to 

 tell by appearances with this animal what he 



