CINCINNATI ZOO GUIDE 
tailed pigeons, European forest pigeons, and several other 
varieties are usually to be found in the collection. 
ORDER GALLINAE 
This order, which, as said on a previous page, has a number 
of representatives in the Pheasant and Fowl Enclosure, is also 
well represented in the Aviaries. It includes pheasants, par¬ 
tridges, peafowls, guinea fowls, etc. Among the pheasants 
usually found here are the golden, the silver, the common, the 
rufus-tailed, the purple kaleege, the ring-necked, the am- 
herst’s, the horned tragophan, the rieves, the peacocks, etc. 
Partridges. It is to this family that our common quail belongs. 
Everyone is familiar with “Bob White.” The species in the 
collection usually include the scaled blue partridges, the 
mountain partridges, and the California valley partridges. 
The Crested Cariama (Cariama cristata).A bird isolated from 
the other species. It is found in South America. It stands two 
feet or more in height, is gray above and dull white beneath. 
Its legs are red. The skin around its large, yellow eye is greenish- 
blue. Its food is almost exclusively animal. One of the species 
has a horned protruberance on the head and runs with poultry, 
which it defends from rapacious birds. 
THE PONY AND ELEPHANT TRACK 
In the tour of the Park next comes the Pony and Elephant 
Tracks. Here are kept from twenty to twenty-five ponies and 
donkeys, including a number of beautiful Shetland Ponies. 
There are a number of pony carts and phaetons also, and the 
children greatly enjoy a canter around the track, seated upon 
a pony, or a drive in one of the carts or phaetons. Nearby is a 
nice little summer amphitheater where visitors may rest and 
watch the fun that is always going on in this department. The 
pony track is oblong, and the distance around is a quarter of a 
mile. 
Lil. The large female Indian elephant, is about eighty years 
old. She was purchased from a circus and is considered one of 
