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leader of Captain Scott's expedition to the South 
Pole. 
The bears comprise the Himalayan black 
species and the common brown one; there is 
nothing- said about any of the marsupial carnivora, 
though one might have expected them in a zoo 
so near Australia, especially as the marsupial 
herbivores, kangaroos, wallabies, and opossums, 
would appear to be well represented. 
To pass to the ordinarv herbivorous animals, 
we are told of camels, zebu cattle, goats and don- 
keys amosg the domestic forms, and an antelope 
and deer among the wild ones. The representa- 
tion of deer appears to be very good, red, fallow, 
sambur, axis, and hog deer all being shown; it 
may be of itnerest here to note that the first three 
of these species are naturalised and living in a 
wild state in New Zealand, and affording, at any 
rate in the 1 case of the red deer, much excellent 
sport; fine heads can be seen in the New Zealand 
building in the Strand, together with heads of 
New Zealand wild goats and wild boars, of which 
introduced pigs a young specimen is on view in 
the Wellington Zoo. The pigs date very much 
further back than the deer, having been intro- 
duced by Captain Cook. Besides the deer and pig 
there is a flock of thar — the maned wild goat of 
the Himalayas. 
Rabbits and guinea-pigs are the only rodents 
mentioned; but the collection of monkeys is evi- 
dently fair, and we are told of a large pigtail and 
the bonnets, macaque, rhesus, vervet, and sapa- 
jous (capuchins); lemurs are also on view, but 
evidently no anthropoid apes or great baboons, 
as such animals could hardly escape the attention 
of a describer of any zoo. 
There apparently have been sea-lions, but at 
the time the article was written their enclosure 
seems to have been empty. 
The bird collection should be fairly interest- 
ing, though, as usual in zoos, it runs, chiefly to 
parrots, pheasants, finches and Waterfowl — all 
easy stuff. Both of the large New Zealand par- 
rots, the kea — the well-known sheep-killer of the 
mountains — and the forest parrot or kaka, are 
shown; the latter bird talks in the Maori language. 
The parrots are kept in "pens" — aviaries, we pre- 
sume — a great improvement on the old-fashioned 
cage-system. Cockatoos, slender-billed and sul- 
phur-crested, and macaws are on view, as well as 
Amazon and eclectus parrots, and lorikeets and 
parrakeets, of which the Tabuan, the king, and 
the budgerigar are especially mentioned, the 
budgerigars being naturally enough housed in the 
finch aviary. Here they have for companions 
canaries, goldfinches, mules (presumably canary- 
goldfinch), redpoles, chaffinches, yellow-hammers, 
greenfinches, African singing finches, blackheaded 
and red-rumped finches, cut-lhroats, red-faced 
finches, weavers "in flaming plumage," and white 
and grey Java sparrows. 
The pheasantries seem to contain several 
species though only the golden pheasant and its 
hybrid with the Amherst are named; peacocks are 
also kept, and the Australian brush-turkey. Of 
pigeons only the Australian wonga-wonga and 
the domestic poulter recerve attention, besides a 
specimen of the remarkable tooth-billed pigeon of 
Samoa, a great rarity. 
Waterfowl are well represented and seem to 
have good space; the species mentioned are the 
white swan, bernicle, Sebastopol, Chinese, maned, 
and snow geese, and among the ducks, the native 
grey duck and paradise duck (varigated shel- 
drake) of New Zealand, and the Australian shel- 
drake, some sort of pochard, European mallard, 
garganey, Mandarin, and Carolina. The last 
three live in a long aviary with a fountain, along 
with the wonga-wonga pigeons, a gold pheasant, 
and other birds. A pair of Cereopsis geese are 
also accommodated separately — they generally 
need to be on account of their abominable temper 
and because they are practically land, not water, 
birds. 
Of small "soft-billed birds" some species of 
honey-eaters are the only ones mentioned, presum- 
ably Australian, which share the accommodation 
of the finches; the tun, formerly so well-known as 
a charming "soft-bill," is not mentioned, though 
a native of New Zealand; but the introduced 
thrushes and blackbirds make the gardens musi- 
cal. A glen, however, affords a home to speci- 
mens of New Zealand's most celebrated birds, 
the strange noctural, flightless, kiwi or apteryx, 
including the rare great spotted species. Among 
the rail tribe we only hear of Australian coots. 
The Australian "laughing jackass" is to be 
seen, and also storks, sacred ibises, and gulls. 
The only birds of prey appear to be the American 
white-headed eagle, the New Zealand harrier — a 
very common hawk there — and four kinds of owls. 
Ostriches are on view, but nothing is said about 
any others of the great flightless birds in the 
article. 
Reptiles comprise the rare and remarkable 
lizard-like tuatara, a creature of ancient type now 
confined to some small islands off the New Zea- 
land coast, the introduced pigs being credited 
with having cleared it off the mainland; the only 
other species mentioned is a long-necked tortoise, 
no doubt an Australian chelodina, while among 
amphibians we are told of the golden tree frog, 
an Australian species, and "the fiery-marked Jap- 
anese salamander," which must be the red-bellied 
Japanese newt which was so common in the ani- 
mal trade a few years ago, for the gigantic am- 
phibian to which the name "Japanese salaman- 
der" would usually be taken to apply has no 
touch of bright colour. 
There is an aquarium, but among several 
species of fish the common eel is the only one 
mentioned. Evidently the Wellington Zoo has 
