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Staff. 
The Staff of the Rangoon Zoological Garden is as 
follows 
Superior Staff 1 Superintendent ; provided with a house in the 
garden, 
1 Clerk (part time only). 
Gardens 1 Head gardener. 
1 Second gardener. 
19 Gardeners. 
Menagerie 1 Store-keeper. 
1 Head keeper. 
6 Keepers. 
9 Under keepers. 
2 Gate keepers. 
All Hindoos 
Madras. 
from 
Peons (Messengers). 
3 Day w^^tchmen. 
3 Night watchmen. 
2 Carters, 
1 Sweeper. 
All natives of India. 
The keepers are 
mostly Chittagong 
Mohammedans. I 
was surprised to 
find that no Bur- 
m’ese were employed 
here. 
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The most noticeable building in the Victoria Memorial 
Park is the Monkey House, originally the Phayre Museum, 
which stood in the town of Rangoon between Commissioners 
Road and Canal Street. The site, however, being required 
for other purposes, the building was taken down and even- 
tually re-erected in the Zoological Garden and adapted to its 
present use. The contents of the Phayre Museum are said 
to be stored somewhere in Rangoon, but are not available 
for inspection. 
The collection in the Zoological Garden is rich in Monkeys 
of the genus Macacus. Besides the species usually to be 
seen in menageries^ there were a Himalayan Monkey, 
Macacus assamensis, said to be from beyond Bhamo, three 
Brown Stump-tailed Monkeys, Macacus arctoides^ from 
Mergui, and three Burmese Pig-tailed Monkeys, Macacus 
leoninus. 
