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ornaments. The ostriches occupy the last com- 

 partment. Large trees shade the whole extent 

 of this park, and the numerous birds that walk 

 about it in the day retire at night into the 

 thatched hut. 



To the right of the park just mentioned is an- 

 other with three divisions, towards the extre- 

 mity of which is a building imitating a ruin. It 

 was long inhabited by the wild goat [capra 

 cegagrus) ; other animals have been successively 

 placed there. In the western compartment is a 

 basin for the larger aquatic birds. 



To the south of this park, which is the lowest 

 part of the menagerie, we see another more 

 elongated, extending from the green-house to 

 the rotunda, sloping towards the north and di- 

 vided into five compartments. In the middle is 

 a small picturesque building with four pavilions, 

 each of which serves as a retreat to a species of 

 deer. The ceivus axis has been kept and has 

 propagated here for several years. 



The winding walks which encircle these parks 

 end at the rotunda and the aviary. Beyond, 

 we find nine other parks constructed upon the 

 same plan. In the middle of the first, opposite 

 to the rotunda, we see a shed encircled with 

 wooden pillars, in which is a mule produced 

 from an ass and a female zebra. This animal is 



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