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X.— NOTES AT BANGALORE. 
Hyder Ali, some time before his death in 1782, caused a 
large garden to be made and planted with mango trees, rather 
less than a mile east of Bangalore Fort. This is called the 
Lai Bagh and is to-day a very beautiful public garden about 
100 acres (40*46 hectares) in extent, supported by the 
Government of Mysore and open free to the public daily. 
Mr. G. H. Krumbiegel is the Superintendent and lives in 
a very nice official house in the garden. 
Although principally a botanical garden, the Lai Bagh has 
for the last fifty years also contained a menagerie. The 
collection at present is not a large one, but I am told that 
plans are being prepared to extend it. 
At the time of my visit, April 14, 15, and 19, 1913, this 
menagerie comprised : — 
(i) The Court, probably built between 1850 and 1860, 
about 68 yards (62*17 metres) long by 26 yards 
(23*77 metres) wide, containing very solid dens 
for large carnivorous animals and a curious cage 
(now empty) formerly inhabited by a rhinoceros. 
A fine pair of tigers deserve notice, specially the 
female, said to have been presented by Mr. C. W. G. 
Morris in 1900. 
(ii) The Aviary, now being rebuilt. 
(iii) The Monkey House, the most noticeable inhabitant of 
which is a very large Mias or Orang-Utan, Simia 
satyrus. 
(iv) The Grfeat Paddock, which is so large that field glasses 
are necessary to see the animals in it, and contains, 
besides Blackbuck, Gazelles, Chital, and Sambur, a 
nice pair of Kakar, the Bib -faced or Barking Deer, 
Oervulus muntjac. One corner of this paddock is 
fenced in to form a separate enclosure for two 
Emus, Dromaeus novaehollandiae. 
(v) The Bear House. 
(vi) The Peacock Enclosure. 
