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some Nilgai, Boselaplius tragocamelus , an arrangement which 
I should be sorry to be responsible for, knowing the way in 
which Nilgai in captivity will at times make unprovoked and 
dangerous attacks on any living thing within their reach.* 
The pretty little muntjac deer, which share a large aviary 
with rabbits, passerine birds, and pigeons, should also be 
mentioned. 
The large “ Flying Aviary” is very pretty and well planted ; 
it contains specimens of twelve species of water -frequenting 
birds. In another aviary are some nice African Guineafowl 
of a species not often seen in captivity and that I do not 
know the name of. 
A special house in this garden is called the Aquarium ; it 
contains six wall tanks. These, at the time of my visit, 
were all empty. 
The Baroda Museum is a large building in the public 
garden. On the staircase are busts of Linnaeus, Cuvier, 
Darwin, and Huxley. From some points of view this was 
the best Natural History Museum that I saw in India : it 
contains a very large general zoological collection but not 
much of local interest. Many of the exhibited animals are 
very well stuffed, and are the work of the well known 
London firm of taxidermists, Howland Ward, Ltd. Some 
interesting models of Indian snakes should also be mentioned. 
* I was told that a nilgai had lately actually killed one of the keepers in the 
Baroda Zoological Garden. Other accidents reported to me while in India, that I 
regret to have to record but which are useful to know of as warnings to men engaged 
with animals, are that of a male chital deer suddenly attacking and killing its keeper 
in the Peshawar Zoological Garden, a female sambar deer, with her fore feet, badly 
wounding a keeper in the Karachi Zoological Garden, the Reptile House keeper at 
Trivandrum being killed by a cobra, and the unfortunate man killed by a Hippopo- 
tamus at Calcutta. 
