114 ANTSfTJAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1964 



Black-crowned night heron 



Crested screamer 



Black swan 



"Wood duck 



3 



1 



4 



54 



Mallard duck 



Peafowl 



Nanday parrot 



Formosan red-billed pie. 



110 

 1 

 3 

 2 



Snapping turtle 21 



Box turtle 



Eastern box turtle. 

 Red-lined turtle __. 

 Red-bellied turtle.. 

 Red-eared turtle 



Tokay gecko 



African spiny lizard. 



Pilot black snake 



Tessellated snake 



Cantil 



1 

 2 

 9 

 1 

 26 



Red swordtails- 



40 



GIFTS 



More than a year ago the Government of Assam, India, offered the 

 National Zoological Park a female rhinoceros as a mate for Tarun, 

 the male rhino that came to the Zoo in May 1960. An adult female 

 was secured from the Kazirangi Game Reserve, and negotiations 

 began to transport her from India to Washington. Then it was dis- 

 covered that "Deepali" was pregnant, and all plans for her trip to 

 the United States were held in abeyance until her calf was born. In 

 April 1963 she produced a female calf, subsequently named Rajkumari, 

 and it was necessary to wait until the young one was weaned. In 

 October Associate Director J. Lear Grimmer and Mrs. Grimmer went 

 to India to arrange transportation for the huge animal. They found, 

 to their delight, that the Indian Government was including the baby 

 in the generous gift to the United States. Crates were built under 

 Mr. Grimmer's supervision, and both animals were brought to the 

 zoo in Calcutta. No commercial airline could handle the shipment 

 (Deepali, crated, weighed 4,000 pounds). Fortunately a number of 

 planes from the American Air Force were in India at the time, par- 

 ticipating in joint Indo-Anglo-American air exercises, and through 

 the good offices of the then Vice President, Lyndon B. Johnson, who 

 was a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, and Air Force Chief 

 of Staff Curtis LeMay, it was possible to load both animals on a 

 C-130 transport. The animals arrived December 17, and were un- 

 loaded at the elephant house at dusk. Only 11 days later Deepali 

 succumbed to an acute attack of gastroenteritis. This was a tragic 

 loss for the Zoo, but Rajkumari (the name means "princess") has 

 adapted nicely to the Zoo regime, is eating well, gaining weight, and 

 of course is the most valuable single acquisition made by the Zoo 

 during the past year. 



On February 12 the director left for Indonesia with gifts of whis- 



