WITH MAPS, PLANS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

THIRTEENTH EDITION—SEPTEMBER, 1915

PUBLISHED BY THE
NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
11 WALL STREET, NEW YORK

Only Authorized Guide Price 25 Cents
COMPLETELY REVISED AND EXTENDED

1st Edition, October, 1899— 5000
2d “ May, 1900— 5000
3d “ December, 1900— 5000
4th “ October, 1901— 3000
5th “ June, 1902— 10000
6th “ “ 1903— 10000
7th “ “ 1904— 15000
8th “ “ 1906— 7000
9th “ “ 1907— 30000
10th “ October, 1909— 30000
11th “ June, 1911— 30000
12th “ “ 1913— 40000
13th “ September, 1915— 20000

Copyright, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1911, 1913 and 1915.
NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY

PREFACE

The publication of this revised and extended edition of the Guide to the Zoological Park is necessary in order to bring our most important collections down to date. With the completion of the Zebra House and Eagle Aviary, we are now able to offer a Guide Book to the Zoological Park as practically finished.

The visitor is not to understand, however, that with the completion of the features named above nothing more will remain to be done. An institution of this kind never reaches a state of absolute completion, with no further possibilities of improvement. But the building of boundary walls, and the rebuilding of temporary entrances, are matters of small moment in comparison with the completion of a grand series of installations for animals, and buildings for public comfort.

Few indeed are the persons who know, or who ever will know, the extent to which both the general design and the details of the Zoological Park have been originated, and hammered out of the raw materials. From the inception of the undertaking, the work of development has involved a continuous struggle to meet new conditions. Although precedents and models for things to be done were sought far and wide, in all save a very few instances, our needs were so peculiar, and so different from those of other zoological gardens and parks, we have found really very little that we could copy. The abundant-room idea on which the Zoological Park was founded, and our desire for the full utilization of the works of nature, have from the first taxed the creative faculties of the Society to the utmost.