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Close by will also be found the stand for Donkeys, and the 
elevated platform, from which during the summer months the 
elephant “Jennie’* starts to carry passengers around the lake. 
No. 7.—THE ELEPHANT HOUSE. 
This building was completed in 1875, and cost about 
$38,000. It is one hundred and ninety-five feet long, and 
affords ample accommodation for many of the larger animals. 
It is the intention of the Society, at some future day, to en¬ 
close the grass-plot at the rear of this building with a heavy 
fence, and turn it into paddocks for the use of the Elephants 
and the Rhinoceros. 
A large proportion of the animals in this building belong 
to the order Ungulata , or hoofed animals, comprising all in 
which the nail grows around the ends of the extremities and 
envelops them in a horny sheath known as the hoof. Some 
of these have one or three toes developed, while another 
group has two or four toes equally complete, the others being 
rudimentary. For purposes of convenience, therefore, the 
existing ungulates have been classed into two sub-orders, the 
Perissodactyla, or odd-toed, as the horse, rhinoceros, and 
tapir, and the Artiodactyla , or even-toed, comprising all the 
remaining hoofed animals, as deer, oxen, swine, &c. They 
are all vegetable eaters, and are found in all but the Australian 
region. 
The Wild Boar {Sus scrofa ) of Europe, Asia, and Africa, 
the Javan Swine ( Sus vittatus ), and the ^Ethiopian Wart 
Hog (. Phacochcerus cethiopicus ), belong to the family Suidce , or 
Swine. The latter remarkable-looking animal from Africa has 
several fleshy protuberances on the face, looking almost like 
horns. It is believed, from the observations of Mr. A. D. 
Bartlett, at the London Zoological Garden, that these warts 
have been developed by reason of their serving to protect the 
eyes from the upward strokes of the tusks in the desperate 
battles which the males wage against each other. 
The Peccaries are not true swine, but they do not depart 
widely enough to be entirely separated from the group. The 
Collared Peccary ( Dicoiyles torquatus ) ranges from the 
south-western United States into South America, and the 
