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The National Magazine New Series March 1899

1899

The live gudgeons *whose pursuit and capture form the daily occupation of the Penguins in their glass-fronted tank are not mentioned in the list of food provided any more than the vast army of mice and rats and live'irogs which form the food of the snakes and the reptiles. [...] Grain - seeds and vegetables supplemented occasionally with crumbs of bread together with a supply of rock-salt and clean water form a capital diet of the Broadtail Parrots and the New Zealand Parrakeet ; and with the addition of fruits and biscuits for the Macaws Conures and the Amazon Parrots.' The African species of Parrots are fed in the same way as the Cockatoos. [...] Similar interest is also evinced by the public in England in the feeding of the denizens of the English Zoo and in order to notify to_ the public the times when the animals there are fed the London Zoological Society advertizes at the end of their authorized Guide to the London Zoo" the precise hours of feeding them. [...] He was engaged in the difficult and arduous task of solving the problems of the sources of the Brahmaputra and the Irrawaddy knotty questions on which the savants of Europe were very much divided in opinion and which are shrouded in doubt and mystery to this day besides enriching the scanty -knowledge of the gegraphy of the country lying to the north of Assam. [...] The duet of the two Mary's at the Sepulchre is expressive and full of feeling the chorus of the Jews exacting that Pilate should have the Tomb well guarded is vigorous and the final chorus of the Faitlful who sing before the Sepulchre ;s emotional and painful.
humanities general
Pages
46
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120140
Segment Pages Author Actions
On the Feeding of Animals in Captivity
97-105 Sarat Mitra view
John Silk Buckingham and the Liberty of the Indian Press
106-113 A. Frenchman view
The Price of Liberty
114-125 Dvigendra Newgi view
Paris Letter
126-129 A. Frenchman view
A Review Of Uttararamacharita
130-136 S.M. Sastri view
Life of Benjamin Disraeli
137-142 unknown view

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