136 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1962 



Common name Scientific name Number 



Yellow-bellied turtle Pseudcmys scripta scripta 5 



Red-eared turtle Pscudemys scripta elegans 4 



Red-bellied turtle Pseudemys rubriventris 2 



Cook's tree boa Boa enydris coolci 18 



Eastern garter snake Thamnophis sirtalis 30 



Eastern ribbon snake Thamnophis sauritus 6 



Black racer Coluber constrictor 24 



Corn snake Elaphe obsoleta guttata 6 



Northern copperhead Ancistrodon contortrix 8 



Western diamondback rattlesnake Crotalus atrox 7 



FISHES 



Egyptian mouthbreeder Ilaplochromis multicolor 30 



GIFTS 



Gifts from foreign dignitaries again enriched the National collec- 

 tion. President William V. S. Tubman of Liberia, making an official 

 visit to Washington, spent 2 hours in the Zoo on September 13 and 

 presented a leopard. President Ibrahim Abboud of Sudan came to 

 the Zoo on October 5 and donated four demoiselle cranes and two 

 migratory cranes, which were welcome additions to the collection. 



"Ambika," the Indian elephant which was a gift from the "Share 

 Your Birthday Foundation" and the Maharajah of Mysore, came to 

 the Zoo on deposit April 14, 1961. After touring the country and 

 making appearances at schools and playgrounds, she was formally 

 presented to the Zoo on January 5, 1962. A. K. Kay, first secretary 

 of the Indian Embassy, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 and Mrs. Ira J. Heller, president of the Share Your Birthday Foun- 

 dation, were all present at the ceremony. 



In return for a pygmy hippopotamus, given last year by President 

 Tubman of Liberia, the National Zoological Park sent a trio of Amer- 

 ican bison to the zoo in Monrovia. The shipment was accompanied 

 by Charles Thomas, senior keeper. 



Dr. R. E. Kuntz sent a valuable collection of reptiles (listed below), 

 and J. E. Joy, who has sent interesting specimens in the past, gave 

 his entire collection of western reptiles. 



Space does not permit listing all gifts received in the course of the 

 year, but the following are of special interest : 



Brown, Comdr. L. L., Takoma Park, Md., hill inynah. 

 Browne, Mrs. Elwyn, Seat Pleasant, Md., kiukajou. 

 Cline, Martin J., Bethesda, Md., 4 alligators. 

 DePrato, Mario, Kensington, Md., coral snake, sand boa. 

 Eccard, Elliott, Bethesda, Md., Petz's parakeet. 

 Evans, Wallace L., Richmond, Va., boa constrictor. 



Fish and Wildlife Service: through Dr. A. S. Mosby, Blacksburg, Va., broad- 

 winged hawk ; Cambridge, Md., 2 whistling swans ; through Dr. Gordon Clark, 



