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they have been constituted a group intermediate between the 
two. Azara’s Fox {^Canis azarce) belongs to this group. 
The Dingo or Wild Dog (Cams dingo) of Australia, was 
formerly supposed to be an aboriginally wild stock, but they 
are now taken to be descended from imported progenitors, 
which ran wild and have increased with great rapidity. They 
are wild, cowardly brutes, susceptible of little domestication, 
and cause by their depredations much loss to the sheep-raisers 
of Australia. 
The Dogs, Wolves, and Foxes, with the Jackals, constitute 
a family of Carnivora known as the Canidce. 
No. i8.— THE WINTER HOUSE, 
For tropical plants, is used merely to keep during cold weather 
those plants for which our winters are too severe for outdoor 
exposure. Being only a sort of storage-house, it is not open 
to visitors. 
No. 19.— THE CATTLE PENS. 
Opposite the Wolves is an iron enclosure divided into pens 
in which are generally kept various members of the Ox and 
Deer families. 
The Domestic Goat (Capra hircus) is represented by 
many different breeds in all parts of the world. The Society 
recently imported several specimens of the celebrated Cash- 
mere Goat. These animals are natives of Thibet and the 
adjacent countries, and are bred for the long, silky hair which 
covers them, and from which the famous Cashmere shawls and 
scarfs are made. They have been domesticated with some 
success both in Europe and this country. 
