ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 
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bring them home and place them in durance vile. The 
next morning they awake to a sense of their condition- 
They hold their aching heads with both hands, and look 
with a most pitiable expression. Brehm saw some of 
them in this plight, and gives a most amusing description 
of their grimaces and laughable conduct. A little wine 
or beer was offered to some who had recovered from 
their debauch, but they would have nothing to do with it 
at the time. They turned away with disgust, but they 
relished the juice of some lemons which was given to them.” 
The visitor should now turn to the adjoining circular 
building 
The Jheend House, 
which was erected by the Rajah of Jheend, G. C. S. L, a 
Life Governor of /the Gardens. It is divided into seven¬ 
teen compartments, each having a small retiring place 
behind, in which the animal can rest and sleep, and as 
there is an open space in the centre of the house, thorough 
ventilation is secured. The numbering of the ca^es be¬ 
gins on the left hand side of the entrance to the central 
space. At present this house contains nothing but monkeys, 
and the visitor is referred to the labels on the cages for the 
names of the animals and the countries from which they 
have come. His attention, however, may be directed to 
the Capuchin monkeys which are examples of the New 
World group called Platyrrhmi from the wide septum 
between their nostrils, and it will be observed that the 
Capuchins, like most American monkeys, have prehensile 
tails. 
Having walked round the Jheend House, the visitor 
will notice a large house to the south-west, and pro¬ 
ceeding towards it, he will pass on his right hand 
