FANCIERS’ 
JOURNAL 
AND 
POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 26, 1874. 
Nos. 47 & 48. 

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Tue above illustration is a finely executed engraving of 
the Aviary recently built by the Zoological Society, of this 
city, in their garden at Fairmount Park. It is well stocked 
with one of the best collections of birds in this country, 
many of which were donated by enthusiastic admirers of 

the doings of the Society ; the balance being purchased by 
their agent, who was sent to Africa and the far East for the 
special purpose of selecting rare birds and animals that could 
not be purchased in the markets of the old world. Persons 
visiting this city should not fail to visit the gardens. 

ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN. 
WHAT IS WANTED. 
Now that the city of Philadelphia has developed so com- 
mendable a spirit of progressive enterprise, it is to be hoped 
its worthy citizens will not rest content until they have se- 
cured a zoological collection as attractive and complete as 
that of London. No period more opportune than the pres- 
ent will probably ever occur in which to commence opera- 
tions, and certainly no more appropriate and desirable a 
location could be procured for a Zoological Garden than 
Fairmount. 

The approaching Centennial, with its many busy prepa- 
rations, has ‘‘ broken the ice,’”’ and given substantial proofs 
that the Quaker City is in earnest, and now is the time to 
inaugurate what is so thoroughly needed in the United 
States—a Zoological Garden first-class in all its appoint- 
ments. 
All that would be required in furtherance of such a 
worthy enterprise could be accomplished with less expendi- 
ture now than at any other time, and would assuredly 
greatly add to the numerous attractions of 1876. Phila- 
delphia, possessing as it does so many places and souvenirs 
