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have considerable external resemblance to some of the ratlike creatures 

 of North America and are interesting for exhibition. 



A Himalayan snow cock (Tetraogallus h. Mmalayensis) was given 

 the Zoo by the Fish and Wildlife Service through Gardner Bump, 

 who was then in Pakistan, and F. C. Lincoln of the Washington 

 office. This is the first bird of this kind exhibited here. It is about the 

 size and form of a domestic chicken. 



The Fish and Wildlife Service also presented the first specimens 

 of the sand grouse {Pterocles orientalis) the Zoo has ever had. 



Two kea parrots (Nestor notabilis), gifts from the New Zealand 

 Government, were brought north for the Zoo by the Naval Antarctic 

 Expedition. These birds were at one time threatened with extinction 

 and are now rigidly protected. They have been successfully exhibited 

 here for many years, but these two additional specimens are most 

 welcome. 



Three emperor penguins (Aptenodyies forsteri) were brought to 

 the Zoo by Malcolm Davis of the Zoo staff, who accompanied the 

 Antarctic Expedition known as Task Force 43. He also brought back 

 six parasitic gulls known as skuas (Catharacta maccormichi) . The 

 penguins died of aspergillosis within a few days. 



From Dr. Juan Bivero, of the University of Puerto Rico, came three 

 different species of the beautiful little green anolis of Puerto Rico. 



The following were obtained by purchase : 



An olingo, or bassaricyon (Bassaricyon gabbi), from the Leticia 

 region of Colombia. For many years this rare animal has been sought 

 in Central America and northern South America. It is a relative of 

 the raccoons and kinkajous and bears considerable resemblance to 

 the latter, but its ears are larger, its tail is not prehensile, and its 

 movements suggest that it is probably more terrestrial than the kinka- 

 jou. Only a few specimens of this genus are known from widely 

 scattered locations in Central America and northern South America. 

 This is the first one of its kind exhibited in the Zoo and probably the 

 first to be alive in the United States. 



Two young Sumatran orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) , which had 

 been deposited in the Zoo by Mr. and Mrs. Carl Krummel of Bal- 

 timore, Md. 



A male, a female, and a young Saiga antelope (/Saiga tatarica) . 



Fine specimens of male and female gelada baboons (Theropithecus 

 gelada) , the first the Zoo has had for several years. They are rare in 

 the wild and are noteworthy among the primates in having a naked 

 area on their red chest; in the female this area is bordered by a row 

 of tubercles on the skin more than one-eighth of an inch in diameter, 

 giving the impression that she wears a pink pearl necklace. The 

 single species of this interesting genus inhabits the mountainous parts 

 of Abyssinia. 



