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GUIDE TO THE 
Near to this, as the visitor turns eastwards, is a knoll 
on the bank of the lake covered with a group of that 
very handsome Cuban palm, Oreodoxa regia , which has 
a clear grey bole like the shaft of an Indo-Persian pillar. 
A little further on to the left, there is 
A Kennel 
in which there is usually to be found the Dingo or Aus¬ 
tralian Wild-dog, an animal not indigenous to that con¬ 
tinent, although now naturalized there. 
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Immediately adjoining this, is the 
Annoda Pershad Roy House, 
named after the late Babu Annoda Pershad Roy of 
Cassim Bazar, and specially adapted to the larger Birds 
of Prey, as the divisions are lofty to suit their habits. The 
most striking bird exhibited here at present is the Forest 
Eagle Owl of the Himalaya, Bubo nipalensis , which is 
distributed eastward to Tenasserim and southwards to 
Ceylon. It is a handsome bird with marked ear-tufts. 
Hodgson states that it preys on pheasants, hares, rats, 
snakes, and even kills the young of some of the larger 
mammals, such as the goat-antelopes. 
In another division is the White Scavenger Vulture 
of India, Neophron ginginianus , which is very closely 
related to the Egyptian Vulture known as Pharaoh’s 
Chicken. 
A large black Eagle in the next division, said to be 
young and to have been brought from Japan, has not yet 
been identified, but it promises to be a fine bird. There 
are generally other Owls and some P'alcons represented 
in this House. 
