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they range in packs of from five or six to twenty, from Mexico 
well up into British America. They are intermediate in size 
between the Fox and Gray Wolf, and live mostly on the car¬ 
casses which are found upon the plains. 
The Common Wolf (Cam's lupus) of Europe, resembles the 
Gray Wolf. A specimen in the Garden, from Italy, is smaller 
in size, being not much larger than the Cayote. 
South America possesses several species of small wolves, 
very fox-like in some of their characters. By some natu¬ 
ralists they have been constituted a group intermediate be¬ 
tween the two. Azara’s Fox (Cams azarod) belongs to this 
group. 
The Dingo or Wild Dog (Canis dingo) of Australia, was 
formerly supposed to be an aboriginally wild stock, but they 
are now taken to be descended from imported progenitors, 
which ran wild and have increased with great rapidity. They 
are wild, cowardly brutes, susceptible of little domestication, 
and cause by their depredations much loss to the sheep-raisers 
of Australia. 
The dogs, wolves, and foxes, with the jackals, constitute a 
family of Carnivora known as the Canida. 
No. 18.—THE WINTER HOUSE, 
For tropical plants, is used merely to keep during cold 
weather those plants for which our winters are too severe for 
outdoor exposure. Being only a sort of storage-house, it is 
not open to visitors. 
No. 19.—THE CATTLE PENS. 
Opposite the wolves is an iron enclosure divided into pens 
in which are generally kept various members of the ox and 
deer families. 
The Domestic Goat (Capra hircus) is represented by 
many different breeds in all parts of the world. The Society 
recently imported several specimens of the celebrated Cash- 
mere Goat. These animals are natives of Thibet and the 
adjacent countries, and are bred for the long, silky hair which 
covers them, and from which the famous Cashmere shawls 
