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(2*43 metres) wide and 6|- feet (1*98 metres) from floor 
to ceiling. 
The iron fence, both for the lions and tigers, is curved 
inwards and downwards at the top, the points of the 
railings being about 3 feet 6 inches to 3 feet 9 inches (say 
1‘06 to 1T4 metres) inside the upright of the fence, and 
about 18 J feet (5*63 metres) from the ground level where 
the animals walk. The total height of the fence from the 
ground to the top of the curve is, as mentioned above, 20 
feet (6*09 metres). 
The collection of live animals represented, at the time of 
my visit, sixty-two forms of mammals, about eighty-three 
of birds, and three of reptiles. Among the more remarkable 
specimens were : — 
(i) Two Long-haired Bunda Monkeys, Macacus rhesus 
suhsp. (?) 
(ii) A Brown Stump-tailed Monkey, Macacus arctoides. 
(hi) A male Princess Beatrice’s Antelope, Oryx beatrix^ 
which has lived in the Bombay garden for eight and 
a half years. He carries a good pair of horns. 
(iv) A male Beisa Antelope, Oryx beisa, from Jubaland. 
(v) A Himalayan Black-throated Jay, perhaps Garrulus 
lanceolatus. 
(vi) Three Giant Land Tortoises, Testudo sp. 
Two of these are extremely large specimens. One, I was 
told, has been here about seventeen years (since 1896). 
These very valuable tortoises are kept in a paddock with black 
buck, adjutant stork, geese, etc. This appears to me to be 
running an unnecessary risk of the tortoises receiving an 
accidental injury from one or other of the other inmates of 
the paddock. 
The Victoria and Albert Museum at the entrance of the 
gardens was commenced in 1862 and the building completed 
in 1871. It is also under the Municipality of Bombay but 
under separate management from the gardens. The Museum 
has a staff of nineteen men. 
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