ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



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AFRICAN TWO-HORNED RHINOCEROS, "VICTORIA." 

 The Zoological Society has two animals of this species, a male and a female. 



On the south side of the building are four 

 cages for elephants, on the north are two cages 

 for rhinoceroses, and two for hippopotami. At 

 each end of the building are two smaller cages. 

 for tapirs or young elephants or rhinoceroses. 

 The hippopotamus cage is provided with a bath- 

 ing tank, and so are two of the tapir cages. As 

 usual, this building is heated by hot water, and 

 thoroughly ventilated. 



Of course each indoor cage has for its occu- 

 pant a spacious open-air yard, in which the ani- 

 mal may wander at will without the ability to 

 harm any person or thing. For the elephant 

 yards there are two fences. The extra heavy 

 inside fence of steel bars is to prevent the ele- 

 phants from reaching visitors, and the outside 

 fence, of ;'-inch round bars seven feet high, is 

 to prevent visitors from reaching the elephants. 

 The yards and fences cannot be completed ear- 

 lier than May. 1909. but they will be ready upon 

 the coming of warm weather. In several of the 

 yards some very elaborate and extensive con- 

 crete floor work will be necessary to preserve 

 valuable oak trees from the injury that would 

 surely follow the laying of ordinary macadam 



paving. The concrete floors are to be raised, 

 to leave the roots of certain trees almost un- 

 touched. 



The total cost of the Elephant House was 

 •$1 57,473 exclusive of the fences, yards and 

 walks. The building has been erected by the 

 F. T. Nesbit Company, with Mr. John C. Cof- 

 fey as superintendent of construction, and it is a 

 fine, perfect and thoroughly satisfactory piece 

 of work. It is doubtful if the City of New York 

 has ever before secured so fine and large a build- 

 ing as this for the really small sum that this 

 one has cost. It is impossible to name the 

 date on which it will be received by the Society, 

 occupied, and opened to the public, but in all 

 probability it will be about November 1. 1908. 



W. T. H. 



New Mammals : — Since July 1, the following 

 important animals have been received: 

 1 Indian Elephant. 

 1 Chimpanzee. 

 1 Oralis utan. 



1 Malay Tapir. 



3 Clouded Leopards. 



"2 Otters. 

 1 Cacomistle. 

 1 Brown Lemur. 

 3 European Roe Deer. 

 14 Squirrels. 



