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of yellowish anywhere. Their heads, legs & lower parts are pure white, but a light gray saddle covers the back from the tip of [[mane?]] to rump & the tails are slightly gray. The back of the larger one is slightly darker, but otherwise they are the same. They are much whiter than any in the Nat. Zoo. Their eyes are also white, the same as in my Wyo. pups & the Montana wolves at Washington.
Belle Isle is flat & muddy & damp but the animal pens have been filled in the with cinder & then 5 or 6 inches of coarse, white, beach sand. As a result the pens are dry & clean & the animals look as if they had just had a bath.
This does not apply to the buffalo yards which are mudholes. All of the animals have plenty of room & are in good condition. Even the polar bears are good & there is one fine grizzly. There are red foxes, coyotes, a fine otter. Blacktail & whitetail deer & some foreign deer.