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XVII.—NOTES AT MADRAS. 
Madras Zoological Garden. 
A Municipal Zoological Garden occupying one end o£ the 
People’s Park. This park is 116 acres (46*94 hectares) in 
area and is open free to the public ; the Zoological Garden 
itself is enclosed by a corrugated iron fence and an entrance 
fee of ^ anna {^d. or 2 milliemes) is charged per visitor. 
Messrs. Higginbotham & Co. of Madras published “ A 
Guide to the People’s Park, Madras,” in 1876. 
The site of the Zoological Garden is flat and occupies three 
sides of a lake, on which is an island connected to the 
mainland by two wooden bridges. Pelicans, adjutant storks, 
white swans, black swans, and peafowl are loose in the 
grounds during the day, but these birds have to be shut up 
in cages every night for fear of the jackals which roam about 
the city. 
I visited the Madras Zoological Garden on April 30 
and May 1, 1913, and have to express my best thanks 
to Mr. P. L. Moore, C.I.E., I.C.S., the Municipal Commis- 
sioner, and to Mr. H. Garwood, the Superintendent of the 
Park, for their kindness in showing me round their garden 
and giving me useful information about it. 
Except the Tiger House, which was built in 1887, the 
existing cages for the larger carnivora at Madras date from 
the year 1858. Mr. Moore told me that larger and better 
quarters are about to be built for these animals. 
Many pretty little striped Palm- Squirrels, Sciurus palma- 
rum^ occur wild in this garden, and Crows, both Corvus 
splendens and Corvus macrorhynchus^ abound. The Corvus 
splendens gives a lot of trouble by perching on the backs 
of and worrying some of the animals, especially the Sambar 
deer and the Lamas. 
Special attention may be called to the following animals 
in the Madras Garden : — 
(i) A very large and dark coloured male Mias, or 
Orang-Utan, Simia satyrus. 
