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several opossums and two woodchucks escaped, and, still more to be regretted, six quails and a pair of gambol's partridges were killed in one night by rats, with which the menagerie building is still completely infested, in spite of the great numbers that have been caught, killed and fed to the birds of prey.

Routine Work.

The daily care which the animals in the collection demanded in proper feeding and thorough cleaning, has required the undivided attention of the two keeps mentioned above, with daily assistance from a laborer. Quite a number of the birds and mammals are young, and all such require to be fed from three to five times daily, on food specially adapted to their respective wants. With the exception of the reptiles, each species in the entire collection has been labeled, and although in the beginning the curator made a determined effort to exhibit with each mammalian species a map showing it's geographical distribution, the rapid increase