ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 
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of Kuch Bihar, and is one of the best arranged buildings in 
the Gardens. It consists of two lines of cages separated 
from each other by a central passage for the use of the 
keepers, and it is surrounded by a deep verandah. The 
cages are raised on iron supports 3 feet off the ground, and 
are open on all sides and above, the roof of the house 
giving shelter from sun and rain. 
The animals in this House are all small representatives 
of the great division of the Mammalia known as the 
Carnivora ; the larger species, such as the Lion, Tiger and 
Leopard being exhibited in the house to be next visited. 
The Carnivora are so called because they prey upon other 
animals, and for this purpose their teeth are specially 
adapted, as with their sharp front incisors and powerful 
eye-teeth or canines they tear the flesh of their prey, 
and, with their back-teeth, cut it finely as with scissors. 
One of the back-teeth is much more prominent than 
the others, and is known as the sectorial or flesh- 
tooth. The jaws of the Carnivora have only one 
movement, upwards and downwards, and do not have a 
double movement as in the case of the Ruminants and 
Rodents. The formidable character of the jaws of a 
Carnivorous animal does not necessarily depend upon an 
increase in the number of teeth, but, as in the case of the 
Felidcz , on the shortening and strengthening of that por¬ 
tion of the jaw that carries the canines and the teeth 
behind them, so that the tooth area is reduced in size, e . g % . 
in the Lion there are only 30 teeth as compared with 32 
in man. 
The Carnivora embrace 13 distinct Families, viz .:— 
1st, the Cats or Felidae; 2nd, the Cryptoproctidce which 
contains only a single animal, peculiar to the Island of 
