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who prefer to stay where milk and honey 
flows, and where the man that hunts gets 
ten days and a fine of twenty-five dollars. 
Keeping on to the east we come to the 
house for small tropical deer, such as the 
Muntjack, Brocket, Marsh deer, hog deer, 
small antelopes, and wild swine, like the 
wart-hog, whose ugliness is positively fas- 
cinating, and the handsome Red river hog, 
hours, to say, “Ah, shucks ! There ain’t 
no such animal.” Here we also have the 
Addax, Beisa, and Sable antelope, and 
kudu, gnus and elands. 
Below, still towards the east, lies the 
broad expanse of the Bison Range, con- 
taining over forty fine, healthy specimens 
of this species. Of this herd, we donated, 
a few years ago, the nucleus of the first 
really protected government herd, that in 
the Wichita Forest Preserve. This herd is 
doing very well indeed, and has increased 
materially. 
Turning north, we are at the Ostrich 
House, where we have besides the Afri- 
can ostriches, some cassowaries, emeus, and 
rheas, and a pair of Secretary birds, which 
on account of their snake-eating habits, and 
their peculiar form, always attract a great 
deal of attention. 
Next comes the Small Mammal House, 
sheltering a great variety of small felines, 
rodents, marsupials, and canines — remark- 
able among which are the panda, and the 
capyhara (the largest of rodents). 
Turning to the right, we find directly in 
front of us the Reptile House, the first 
large building erected, and which still holds, 
with the Monkey House, the centre of the 
stage. Here we find snakes from a six- 
teen-inch coral snake (very poisonous) to 
a twenty-six foot python (non-poisonous) 
and comparatively harmless to human be- 
ings. It is from these pythons, by the 
way, that the English suffragettes took pat- 
tern, I think, because they are the original 
hunger strikers. On several occasions these 
beasts, when first brought to the park, have 
absolutely refused to eat, though tempted 
with all the delicacies of the snake larder, 
such as chickens, rabbits, rats, cats, and 
dogs. When this occurs forced feeding is 
ELEPHANT HOUSE, NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 
both from Africa, and the aggressive little 
peccary, of the Central American States. 
Just beyond is the Antelope House, with 
a fine pair of giraffes, the wonderful near 
antelopes, with marvelous length of leg and 
neck, that compelled one of our visitors, 
who had been watching them for several 
always resorted to as a last resort. Five 
or six rabbits, well lubricated, are tied to- 
gether. A pole is stuck under the chin of 
the first one, then the meal is pushed down 
into the snake’s throat very much like a 
load of powder into a muzzle-loading can- 
non. When the rabbits are down the pole 
part large palms, which add a touch of 
grace and color that is much appreciated. 
To the west and below is the Aquatic 
Bird House, harboring in winter the occu- 
pants of the great Flying Cage, a large 
open air structure enclosing several large 
come, to some extent at least, by climbing 
to the top of their shelter building. 
The great pond for wild fowl is north 
of these, teeming with ducks and geese, 
many of them volunteers, that would be 
able to fly away were they so inclined, but 
MARSH GARDEN IN BIRD VALLEY, NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 
trees and a spacious pool, which rises 
nearby in glorious dimensions, and in 
which one can see pelicans, cormorants, 
egrets, flamingoes, snake-birds, and many 
others of wondrous form and hue. 
Farther west begin the Deer Ranges, 
starting with a fine collection of European 
and Asiatic Deer, such as fallow, and the 
red deer of Europe, axis deer, the Beau 
Rrummel among the antlered folk ; Bara- 
singha, Malay and Indian sambar, Tash- 
kent wapiti, and Altai wapiti, all in large 
ranges in which they can run and sport 
to their hearts’ content. 
Proceeding up the Bird Valley, as this 
glade has been named, we see the long arc 
of the Eagle and Vulture Aviary, with 
eagles, condors, hawks and vultures, and 
further along, the Zebra House and the 
AVild Horse Enclosure, where are found, 
among others, the Prjevalsky horses from 
Mongolia, the progenitor of all our domes- 
tic races of the horse. Next comes the 
ranges of the American wapiti, of which 
we have a noble herd, the mule deer, lla- 
mas, alpacas, and vicunas and camels. To 
the east is the Pheasant and Dove Aviary, 
containing golden, silver, Impeyan, Reeves, 
English, Manchurian pheasants, and many 
doves and pigeons. Just south of this, 
two great rarities in zoological collections, 
the musk oxen from “Greenland’s icy 
mountains,” and the Rocky Mountain goats 
from our own great Rockies. Both of 
these animals are thriving well in spite of 
the high temperature and the low altitude, 
which latter the goats usually try to over- 
