SECRETARY'S REPORT 137 



Hanson, Charles, Oak Harbor, Ohio, 2 Cook's boas. 



Houston Zoo, Houston, Tex., South American rat snake, 2 common iguanas, 2 

 Indian monitors, 6 pilot black snakes, black tegu, 2 African bull frogs, fox 

 snake, 2 Amazon spotted turtles, gibba turtle, Pacific rattlesnake. 2 manushi, 

 glossy snake, 4 palm vipers, 2 flat-headed turtles, Formosan striped rat snake, 

 Formosan rat snake, 2 South American red-lined turtles, milk snake, 2 

 Indian wolf snakes, 2 large snake-necked turtles, 2 Murray turtles, boa con- 

 strictor, Indian python, 2 Taiwan cobras, snorkel viper, 6 tree boas, Cuban 

 boa, Indian cobra. 



Portland Zoo, Portland, Oreg., Nile hippopotamus, 2 eastern box turtles, 2 yellow- 

 bellied turtles, 2 eastern painted turtles, Florida water turtles, red-lined 

 turtle, 2 western diamond-backed rattlesnakes, 2 African porcupines. 



Sacramento Zoo, Sacramento, Calif., 2 Cape hunting dogs. 



Salisbury Snake Farm, Southern Rhodesia, anaconda. 



San Antonio Zoo, San Antonio, Tex., black leopard, water civet, 2 golden- 

 bellied badgers, lesser panda, giant Indian squirrel, 2 kelp gulls, 2 American 

 ospreys, 2 cotton teal, 10 Quaker parakeets, 3 ring-necked teal, llama, 2 For- 

 mosan masked civets, 3 Newman's genets, Patagonian cavy, sika deer, laughing 

 thrush, 2 Formosan red-billed pies, 2 plain-breasted ground doves. 



Seattle Zoo, Seattle, Wash., 3 mute swans. 



Southwick Wild Animal Farm, Blackstone, Mass., 1 wild turkey. 



Thomas, Charles, Washington, D.C., 2 cockatiels. 



Toledo Zoo, Toledo, Ohio, 2 Cape hunting dogs. 



Tote-em-In Zoo, Wilmington, N.C., 8 fallow deer, 5 Virginia deer, elk, yak, 

 Coliunbian ground squirrel, 4 eastern flying squirrels. 



BIRTHS AND HATCHINGS 



The number of young animals born in the Zoo was gratifying and 

 included several "firsts," either for this Zoo or for the United States. 

 The pair of Margay cats that had a young one last year produced 

 another kitten, which was cared for by the mother. A baby serval 

 was taken away from its mother and raised by hand. The Canadian 

 beavers, which were gifts from the Canadian Government, had a 

 young one just after arriving in the park and before the formal 

 presentation by Canadian officials, and so it was on view during the 

 ceremony. The Dorcas gazelles were equally obliging and had their 

 fawn at the time when President Bourguiba of Tunisia, who gave the 

 original pair to Mrs. John Eisenhower, was in Washington. 



A pair of kookaburras, a gift in 1954 from Sir Edward Hallstrom 

 of the Taronga Zoological Park Trust in Sydney, Australia, began 

 laying eggs in Febniary 1961. The nest was built in an opening at 

 the base of a hollow tree, and the birds excavated the site until the 

 nest was 2 or 3 inches below ground level. Three eggs were laid, and 

 the male and female birds took turns incubating them, neither bird 

 leaving the nest until the other had replaced it during the 25 days 

 of incubation. On four occasions the female was observed calling the 

 male by rapping on the tree with her bill, and the male responded 

 immediately and entered the nest. The kookaburras had always been 



