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HAMLYN'S MENAGERIE MAGAZINE. 
writing lives in the New Apes' House. The chim- 
panzees here, though, do not display the liveliness 
and activity that Sally and Micky (when young) 
used to do; I have often seen Micky taken out of 
the cage by Mansbridge, the apes' keeper, and 
playing w'ith him like a child. The new Apes' 
House was built under the old management, 
though comparatively recently, and the lighting is 
very badly arranged for observing the animals, 
though they have lived well in it. 
The Kanagroo Sheds in those days had no 
paddocks at the back, but otherwise have not 
been altered; the other marsupials, such as opos- 
sums, used to live in the old Small Mammal 
House, near where the new building devoted to 
small carnivores stands. They kept in fine con- 
dition, though in small cages, and the vole-like 
Cuming's Octodon and the exquisite little flying 
Phalanger used to breed regularly. 
A very wonderful thing was the regular re- 
production, for many generations, of the African 
collared Fruit-bat, in some high narrow cages in 
the Monkey House, a building which has had no 
important alteration. These creatures had no 
chance whatever of flying, and used to scramble 
down the wire front of the cage to be fed by such 
visitors as could brave their scent, which contri- 
buted more than its share to the then pronounced 
monkey-house flavour. Shortly after the new 
management came in they were moved to rather 
bigger cages in another house, but did not long 
survive the apparent improvement in their lot. 
This is evidently the best Fruit-bat to keep in 
captivity, and it is of a smaller and so more con- 
venient size than the better known Indian flying- 
fox. A comparison between the structure of these 
cage-born captives and wild specimens, to see to 
what extent, if any, their wings and wing-muscles 
had degenerated, would have been interesting, 
but I believe none such was made. 
Of the monkeys themselves, hardly any were 
kept outdoors in the old days, but this was done 
with one or two temperate climate species, notably 
a Jcheli Monkey from North China, a fine big 
beast like a heavily-furred Rhesus, which lived 
in a small cottage just outside the Monkey House, 
corresponding to that which forms the indoor part 
of the Mandrills' detached cage. The excellent 
monkey house with outdoor runs, on the North 
Bank, is a quite recent institution, and monkeys 
have done very well in it; the Lemurs, now housed 
there, used to have apartments in the Monkey 
House. 
The larger deer were mostly located where 
they now are, but the Moose was kept in a shady 
sloping paddock on the south side of the canal, 
back of the Hippopotamus House, and the smaller 
deer were scattered about in various places; the 
little Chevrotains, or Mouse-deer, had homes in 
the house of the Ant-eaters and Apes. The Ante- 
lopes and Camels lived where they do now for 
the most part, but the Llamas' House is com- 
paratively new, though built under the old manage- 
ment. 
The grass paddocks on one side of t!he Ante- 
lope House were till quite recently all in one, and 
the animals took their turns in this for exercise. 
The sandy one devoted to the Elands covers, 
among other things, the site of the old sea-lion 
and seal ponds. In the big basin which housed 
the sea-lions there used to be a wooden platform 
with an old kitchen chair fixed on it, on which 
the sea-lion would mount to catch his fish when 
thrown to him. 
The dog tribe never interested me much, and 
I cannot remember where they were all kept; but 
their present abode back of the Lion House has 
been improved by the back extension of it, though 
to my thinking better suited to climbing animals 
than to runners; some scheme to have taken in the 
ground now rather wasted as goose paddocks 
would have been better. 
(To be continued.) 
GENERAL NOTES. 
By John D. Hamlyn. 
THAT the will of the late John Henry Cooke, a 
former circus proprietor, who passed away on 
August 2i9th last, has been proved at ^10,175 
including estate abroad amounting to £1,821. 
The death duties amounted to ^513. 
THAT the Zoo Buildings, Glasgow, have been 
opened with Wombwell's Menagerie and the 
usual side shows. Business tremendous. Good 
luck to the venture. 
THAT the arrivals in Lnodon have been oil; in 
Liverpool, some five Drills, five Dogfaces, and 
five mixed Monkeys, with some single Parrots 
THAT the varied schemes afloat to capture the 
Wild Beast Trade amuses the Editor. 
THAT a consignment from Singapore has sailed 
for the United States. This is a private ven- 
ture. It will be the last. 
THAT the disposal of private collections still 
continue. Extraordinary prices are asked and 
obtained. 
THAT the Big Concerns seem to purchase all 
duplicates at prices never known before. 
THAT the Editor wishes them all good luck in 
their enterprise. 
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