SECRETARY'S REPORT 11 



Guam ; a tuatara from the Government of New Zealand ; two Philip- 

 pine macaques, early pioneers in space from the U.S. Air Force ; two 

 Korean bears from President Syngman Rhee of Korea; pronghorn 

 antelopes from both the Wyoming and the Montana State Fish and 

 Game Commissions ; a pair of gorillas from Russell Arundel of War- 

 renton, Va. ; emperor and Adelie penguins from Hon. Charles Thomas, 

 Secretary of the Navy; a young Bengal tiger from the Ambassador 

 of Pakistan, Syed Amjad Ali ; a pair of okapis from the Government 

 of the Belgian Congo ; an African forest elephant from the Commu- 

 nity of French Republics ; two dorcas gazelles from President Habib 

 Bourguiba of Tunisia ; a spotted leopard and a male pygmy hippopot- 

 amus from President William V. S. Tubman of Liberia ; an Indian 

 rhinoceros from the Forestry Service of Assam; two Bengal tigers 

 from Ralph Scott of Washington and Miami Beach; the beautiful 

 white tigress "Mohini," from the Metropolitan Broadcasting Corp., 

 the first to be seen outside of Rewa, India ; "Ambika," an Indian ele- 

 phant, from the "Share Your Birthday Foundation" and the Maha- 

 rajah of Mysore; six North African cranes from President Ibraliim 

 Abboud of Tunisia ; tliree tree kangaroos from Sir Edward Hallstrom 

 of Sydney, Australia ; and a sea-lion from Attorney General Robert 

 Kennedy. 



The Zoo continued to be fortunate in its breeding program. Among 

 the interesting births, the first in importance was that of "Tomoka," 

 a male lowland gorilla, on September 9, 1961. Other noteworthy births 

 were those of giraffes, pygmy hippos, gaur, Nile hippopotamus, eland, 

 snow leopard, wisent, Cape hunting dogs, striped hyena, margay and 

 serval cats, ring-tailed lemur, and lesser pandas. The kookaburras 

 have laid eggs and successfully reared the young for the past 2 years, 

 and the Surinam toads laid eggs and hatched them in their peculiar 

 manner twice during the 10-year period. 



Purchases of miusual interest were a pair of cheetahs; two flat- 

 tailed Brazilian otters (the fii'st to be exhibited in the United States) ; 

 a pair of black rhinoceroses and a pair of the much rarer white rhinos 

 (these also were the first to come to the States) ; two giant armadillos; 

 two Pere David deer, the rare fossa from Madagascar; a pair of 

 wisent, or European bison; a trio of Saiga antelope; two Sumatran 

 orangutans; a pair of snow leopards; a trio of Masai giraffes; three 

 Cape buffalo ; three brmdled gnus ; Dall sheep ; Pallas's cats ; maned 

 wolves; two yaks; a Colombian red-eyed cowbird that had not been 

 seen for so many years it was supposed to be extinct; pygmy teal; 

 crocodile birds; and two king cobras. Scientific work, necessary to 

 the maintenance of the great animal collection at the National Zoolog- 

 ical Park and also important in adding knowledge concerning the con- 



