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GUIDE TO THE 
by it to the prow of the boat, and when their services are 
required they are slipped like dogs. 
There has been frequently exhibited in the Gardens an 
otter belonging to the sub-genus A onyx, so named because 
the claws are small and more resemble nails than claws. 
It is also a much smaller animal than the common otter, 
and is peculiar to Southern Asia. As the Indian otters 
are not well understood, living specimens are always most 
acceptable, and the Committee intend to erect more otter 
houses along the margin of the lake. 
The visitor will now proceed onwards for a few yards and 
will find a flight of steps leading up to the large walled oval 
enclosure on his left that forms the airing ground to 
The Buekland House 
which was originally constructed for rhinoceroses, but is 
now inhabited by Tapirs. The outer aspect of the wall 
has had an embankment thrown up around it to the 
height of nearly three feet, the top of this embankment 
constituting a path which runs round the enclosure, and 
from this the visitor looks down upon the animals 
below. At the end next the lake, this path ‘is interrupted 
by the house for the shelter of the animals, which has 
its outer gate facing the lake, its inner gate opening directly 
into the enclosure which has a tank for the use of the 
animals. The enclosure is planted with trees and the tank 
is luxuriant with reeds. 
The first rhinoceros that inhabited this enclosure was an 
example of the common one-horned species, the Rhinoceros 
ujiicornis. This animal was presented by the late 
Maharajah of Dumraon. It was at first thought that 
there would be insuperable difficulties in bringing it 
