4 
GUIDE TO THE 
The Public Entrance to the Gardens is close to the 
main approach to Belvedere, and the Gardens are open to 
the public daily from sunrise to sunset at a merely nominal 
entrance fee.'* 
Passing through the Turnstile, as all have to do who are 
not Members or who enter in carriages, and across the 
verandah of the small picturesque Lodge, the visitor finds 
the main road before him, dividing into three great 
branches, one to the right, one in the centre, and the third 
to the left. If either the first or the last be followed, a 
carriage can be driven round the greater part of the cir¬ 
cumference of the Gardens, and by this means the visitor 
can at once obtain a comprehensive idea of their general 
plan and extent. 
The visitor, who would systematically go round the 
Menagerie, had better take the road leading to the left, 
because in the annexed plan he will find that the houses, 
cages and paddocks are numbered in accordance with this 
route, and the description of the animals will follow the 
same direction. 
First of all, however, the visitor will pause close by 
the Lodge, near to a tall Borassus Palm, and observe 
The Aquatic Bird Pond, 
an oval sheet of water enclosed by a neat iron railing. 
The grassy border of this tank is planted out with a variety 
of beautiful shrubs and a few cocoanut palms, the former 
affording the birds admirable shade from the scorching- 
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sun of mid-day. In the tank are usually to be seen 
the following birds:—the flamingo, stork, pelican, common 
* For special rules regarding the admission of the public, see 
Appendix. 
