THE 
Zoological and Acclimatisation Society 
OF VICTORIA. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
For 1909. 
The Council of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society 
of Victoria begs to submit its forty-sixth Annual Report to the 
subscribers and the public. 
Many improvements have been effected in the Gardens 
during the past year, the principal of which is the completion of 
the new main entrance, where more turnstiles have been added, 
and visitors on Sunday afternoons can pass in at one entrance, 
whereas formerly they came in at separate gates. 
The present building is much more commodious and better 
appointed than the old one, which has been made into a bicycle 
stand, while the room in which the Parrots are kept at night 
has been enlarged and improved. 
Many of the wooden houses have been repaired and painted, 
and it is the intention of the Council to replace them with stone 
or brick buildings as opportunity occurs. 
Some stone dens have been made for the VTscachas, Coypu 
Rats, and similar gnawing animals, and these structures will be 
added to as needed. 
'i'he new Flight Aviary has been a source of much attrac¬ 
tion, and the birds in it have done very well, the Black-breasted 
Plover, the Magpie Lark, and Wood Swallows having nested ; 
the loss among the birds has been very small. 
The birds in the Pheasant Aviary have also done very well 
during the season, Bankiva Jungle Fowls having been successfully 
crossed with Game F'owls to the fourth cross. The Scrub 
Turkey.s (Catheturus) have again successfully hatched several 
young ones from the nesting mound. 
The fence around the Elephant Yard has been renovated 
and ?;trengthenecl. The staging and building where the Elephant 
takes up her load of juvenile passengers has been raised on 
account of the increasing size of the animal. 
