Devils, otters, badgers, skunk, bear, lions, tigers, emu, apes, eagles, flamingo, hawks, elephants, leopards, orang-ootangs, seals, and so forth and so forth, are exhibited for public inspection. Indeed the public are so interested in these animals that some actually specialize in particular groups of them; for instance two men who we noticed standing in front of the wood- chuck cage so closely resembled woodchucks that we were prompted to inquire about it. One of the keepers immed- iately told us that they had been watching those wood- chucks now for fourteen years at the request of the Federal Government, and that the woodchucks had become so reconciled to them that they passed out half their dinner to them as a matter of course. Another case was well-known of a man who had stood for three years in front of the snake window. Finally in June 1916, he wriggled off and went home. Saturday, August 20th. (Sydney). Today after despaching several minor affairs at the office of the American Consul and at the office of the Burns, Philp & Co. we took a trip up the Paramatta River to the horse races at Rose Hill. The boat journeyed local fashion around the harbour. We noticed several foreign freighters anchored in the roadstead amongst which was the Port Huron and the Tricolor, the first British, the second Norwegian, both in Sydney to take the opening wheat cargoes to Dunkirk as fast as possible. The Australian cruisers Sydney and Penguin were also visible further down the bay.