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BIRD 
tMNCIERS’ JOUR 
VOL. I. 
AND 
POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 12, 1874. 
^ jBRARlE S 
Nos. 45 & 46. 
T HIS is a correct 
illustration of 
the new Monkey 
House which we 
lately visited at the 
Zoological Garden, 
one of the most in- 
teresting and in- 
structive features 
in the Fairmonnt 
Park, of which we 
shall speak more 
particularly in fu- 
ture issues. The 
Zoological Gardens 
are beautifully lo- 
cated on the west 
side of the Schuyl- 
kill Eiver, the en- 
trance being near 
the west end of the 
new Girard Ave- 
nue Bridge, one of 
the finest and wi- 
dest in the world, 
being 100 feet wide 
and built at a cost 
of $1,800,000. 
We will here 
state that this 
house, prepared for 
the Darwinian spe- 
cimens of the re- 
cipient stages of 
man’s low estate, 
is admirably ar- 
ranged for the 
health and diver- 
sion of a large and 
happy family, of 
various forms and 
features, forty to 
fifty of them being 
“ at home ” to en- 
tertain visitors, 
which they are not 
at all bashful in 
attempting. 
Every conveni- 
ence is arranged 
for the display of 
these anti(c)que 
individuals and the 
study of the same. 
Some of them have 
decidedly human 
traits, among 
which, however, 
are not those of a 
blue(ish) “caste,” 
though at times se- 
rious, but not very 
sad, more generally 
funny, merry, and 
glad. As object- 
teaching is becom- 
ing the custom of 
late, we would 
recommend these 
Gardens to young 
students of natural 
history. 
Strategy. — “ Monkeys should be looked after and educa- 
ted,” says a sarcastic writer ; for these animals possess a talent 
for mimicry which gives them the appearance of possessing 
brain power. Man, however, is more than a match for 
them, as the following story will show. A company of 
Brazil hunters had a lot of little boots made, just large 
enough to be drawn over a monkey’s foot, and filled the 
bottoms with pitch. With these they set out for the woods, 
and soon found themselves under the trees where the lively 
little fellows were leaping about among the branches, hang- 
ing by their tails, swinging themselves easily from one tree 
to another, and chatting noisily together, as if making ob- 
servations upon the strange visitors that had come into their 
quarters. The hunters quietly sat down under the trees 
while the little chatterboxes were rattling on over their 
heads, but never for .a moment removing their eyes from 
them. Then they placed the little boots where they could 
be seen, and commenced taking off their own boots. Hav- 
ing done this, they let them stand awhile near the little 
boots. All this the monkeys very carefully noticed. The 
hunters, now taking up their boots, having carefully looked 
over them, drew them slowly, one after another, on their 
feet. Not a motion escaped the observation of the monkeys. 
Having replaced their boots, they hurried away to the 
thicket, where they could, unseen, watch the monkeys, leav- 
ing the little boots standing in a row. They were no sooner 
out of sight than down from the branches dropped the mon- 
keys. They looked at the boots, took them up, smelt of 
them, and finally, seating themselves as the hunters had 
done, drew them on over their feet. As soon as they were 
fairly in the boots, out sprang the hunters from their hid- 
ing-place, and rushed upon them. The monkeys, affrighted 
at once started for the trees, but only to find that they had 
destroyed their power of climbing by putting on the boots. 
So they fell an easy prey to their cunning enemies. Ex, 
