Identifier: zoologicalsociet55601newy (find matches)
Title: Zoological Society bulletin
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: New York Zoological Society
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: (New York) : New York Zoological Society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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en the large Bird House was built,special cages were made for the macaws andparrots in Parrots Hall. The netting en-closing these cages was sufficiently strong toimprison securely a large monkey or evensome of the smaller cats. By steady application, the macaws cut outsections of this netting two and three feetlong and from eight to twelve inches wide,affording an easy passage from one compart-ment to the next. To cut this netting, aworkman is obliged to use heavy, steel cut-ting pliers and considerable force. The net-ting was replaced with heavier material andthus far has resisted successfully all attacksupon it. Conceited Peafowl.—Peacocks and some menare alike in one respect,—they cannot de-termine accurately between admiration andridicule. Under observation a vain man ex-pands with visible pride, oblivious of the factthat the observer may be secretly amusedbecause he has a smudge of black on Jus faceor has left his house in a rush and forgotten 1034 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN
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RHODODENDRONS IN BIRD VALLKYThe rhododendrons bloomed most luxuriantly during the season of 1913. his tie; and the peacock will throw a thread-bare tail into view, that is nothing short ofa caricature of its former beauty, to the hum-blest observer that loiters near. The peacock has his day in proper season,for then he is the observed of all observers,but alas how are the mighty fallen whenthis gay Lothario imagines that he can dazzlea wandering flock of guinea-fowl, after theinexorable law of nature has shorn him ofhis glory. A number of guinea-fowl, as indifferent toall worldly affairs and as busy as only guinea-fowl can be, were darting about the rectangleof lawn fronting the Elephant House a fewmornings ago, intent only upon filling theircrops. To the guinea-fowl there can be as-cribed no other aim, for to them the axiomall is not gold that glitters is even ephem-eral. In among them strode a peacock, a swagger-ing Jingle of tattered elegance and jauntyimpudence. Bigoted ancestral

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