procure a full stock of animals, but from 
now on they will accumulate rapidly. At 
present the ranges contain the following: 
to elk, 4 prong-horned antelope, 2 mule 
deer, I caribou, 3 fallow deer, 4 axis deer, 
all of which the Society hardly considers 
a beginning of the big herds it will form. 
RECREATION. 
a big plate glass tank containing 3% feet 
of water, clear as crystal, specially designed 
to afford an opportunity to study the 
movements of diving birds under water, 
im pursuit of live fish. This tank is now 
monopolized by 6 or 7 snake birds, ‘rom 
Florida, but some penguins will arrive 

FIRST ARRIVALS IN THE ELK RANGE. 
house was the first 
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building begun, and the first completed. 
Its dimensions are 63x50 feet, and its 
special purpose is to afford winter housing 
for the bird 
of the flying cage which can- 
oors in winter. Like the rep- 
his building is of warm buff 
and cut stone, copper roofed, and 
lentifully ornamented with figures of 
irds in gray terra cotta. On each corner 
stands a life-size figure of a bald eagle and 
over each door is a colossal reproduction 
of the seal of the Zoological Society. Along 
the whole length of the outer wall is a row 
of big cages, each 12 feetsquare and 13 feet 
high, in which are accommodated the 
eagles, vultures, hawks, owls, jays, and 
crows until the great eagles’ aviary shall 
be built mear the fox dens. The So- 
ciety’s collection of bald eagles is magnifi- 
cent. There are 2 big birds yet in their 
D ge, and 6 others with heads 
white as snow. 
rior of the bird house is a reve- 
lation. Instead of a great number of very 
small cages, like those found in bird stores, 
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the visitor beholds first a huge cage in the 
middle space, 16x38 feet and 15 feet high, 
containing a large pool of water and a 
fountain. Along each side wall are 7 
feet, and through each 
runs a stream of water. On the 
the central cage is replaced by 
skortly, and then there will be a sight 
worth seeing. 
In this building a very striking feature 
is the beautiful landscape backgrounds for 
the wall cages. Instead of dead walls, as 
obtain elsewhere, on one side the visiter 
seems to be looking through the cages 
at mature as it is seen on the edge of the 
Florida everglades. The whole wall is 
covered by a very realistic painting of 
an actual landscape in Florida, done with 
great skill and good judgment by one of 
the foremost of New York’s mural artists, 
Mr. Robert Blum. The Eastern wall 
carries a Northern landscape, a marsh 
with distant hills, quite lke the Shrews- 
bury river and the Navesink Highlands. 
One seems to be looking miles away, 
instead of only a few feet, and the relief 
and pleasure it gives the eye is great. 
It seems as if the birds are about to fly 
away. This landscape background for 
cages is one of the new ideas of the direc- 
tor, and from the unqualified success of 
this first trial of it, I should say it has 
come to stay. Visitors are delighted with it. 
Quite near the bird house looms up the 
great flying cage-—one enormous enclos- 
ure of steel pipe and wire netting 152 
feet long, 72 feet wide and 55 feet high. 
It takes in 3 living forest trees, an 
oak and 2 hickories, a pond of water 
