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Szaba, Mrs. Renee, Glen Burnie, Md., 3 North African pond turtles, 2 red-eared 



turtles. 

 Thompson, Lynda, Vienna, Va., 2 golden-mantled ground squirrels. 

 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Hawaii, nene or Hawaiian goose. 

 U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2, Taipei, Taiwan, Far East forest cat. 

 Ward, Mrs. Bettina B., Middleburg, Va., blue and yellow macaw. 



DEPOSITS 



During the past year rare or valuable specimens have been dispersed 

 to locations thought to have good breeding conditions as well as better 

 living accommodations than could be provided at the National Zoologi- 

 cal Park while new construction is in progress under its capital im- 

 provement program. Other animals have been dispersed with the 

 understanding that they or similar specimens will be returned when 

 suitable exhibition areas have been completed here in the park. 



These deposits are : 



Brookfield Zoo, Brookfleld, 111., female Dall sheep. 



Busch Gardens, Tampa, Fla., male concave-casqued hombill, female Solomon 



Islands cockatoo. 

 Dallas Zoo, Dallas, Tex., a female saiga antelope. 



Defense General Supply Center Preserve, Richmond, Va., male American elk. 

 Houston Zoo, Houston, Tex., 2 purple-crested touracos. 

 National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.. macaw. 

 Patuxent Wildlife Refuge, Laurel, Md.. barred owl. 

 St. Louis Zoo, St. Louis, Mo., male gaur, 3 king penguins, Ad^lie penguin, female 



chimpanzee. 



EXCHANGES 



The National Zoological Park participates in a continuing p)rogram 

 of exchanging surplus animals w^ith zoos of other countries. Notable 

 exchange arrangements were made w^ith several foreign organizations. 

 Ueno Zoological Gardens, Tokyo, Japan, received a pair of Town- 

 send's chipmunks and a pair of golden-manteled ground squirrels. 

 Dudley Zoo, Worcestershire, England, received an assortment of 19 

 snakes. The zoo in West Berlin received a pair of canvasback ducks, 

 a pair of wood ducks, and a female whistling swan. The Hanover 

 Zoo in Germany received a female black leopard cub. A pair of 

 jaguars and a pair of Canadian lynxes were shipped to the Alipore 

 Zoo in Calcutta, India, and other surplus animals will be shipped later 

 as part of an exchange agreement imder which the associate director 

 acquired several hundred birds from India, including such interesting 

 specimens as koels, racket-tailed drongos, several hornbills, painted 

 and black-necked storks, over a hundred assorted parakeets, and many 

 other colorful small birds. 



Animals obtained through exchange were : 



Baltimore Zoo, Baltimore, Md., 2 whistling swans. 

 Bronx Zoo, New York, N.Y., springhaas. 



