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corral in Gahauti, where it lived for nearly a year. It was then 

 brought by truck from Assam to the Alipore Zoo in Calcutta, and 

 J. Lear Grimmer, Associate Director of the National Zoological Park, 

 flew out to accompany it to Washington. He spent a month in India, 

 supervising the crating of the rhinoceros and getting acquainted with 

 it, even spending several nights in the Zoo, so that "Tarun" would be- 

 come thoroughly accustomed to him. They arrived in Wasliington 

 on May 25, and "Tarun" by that time tipped the scales at 2,000 

 pounds. 



In addition to the rhinoceros, the Seaboard and Western plane 

 that flew it to Washington carried the following animals which Mr. 

 Grimmer had acquired as gifts, purchases, or exchanges: 



1 spotted leopard 31 lesser ring-necked parakeets 



1 black leopard 5 darters or snake birds 



5 lesser pandas 2 black-backed kallege pheasants 



1 langur 12 emerald-winged tree doves 

 12 blossom-head parakeets 5 yellow monitors 



2 gray hornbills 1 water monitor 



2 Bhutan or gray peacock pheasants 2 pythons 



10 cotton teals 5 wolf snakes 



3 greater ring-necked parakeets 



The National Zoological Park acknowledges not only the generosity 

 of the Forestry Service of Assam but also the cooperation of R. K. 

 Lahiri, director of the Alipore Zoo, and Gordon Mattison, American 

 consul general in Calcutta, both of whom were most helpful in mak- 

 ing arrangements. 



Mrs. Grimmer, who accompanied her husband to India, was given a 

 young leopard by Maj. Aubrey N. Weinman, director of the Zoo in 

 Colombo, Ceylon, which she has recently presented to the National 

 Zoo. 



Dr. Robert E. Kuntz, stationed in Taiwan, continued to send rare 

 and interesting specimens. 



The Washington Post sent two newspaper carrier boys, winners of 

 a "Junior Diplomat" contest, on a trip to Australia. While they were 

 there, Sir Edward Hallstrom, president of the Taronga Park Trust, 

 Sydney, gave them a pair of tree kangaroos for the National Zoological 

 Park. The day after the kangaroos arrived in Washington, a very 

 small young was noticed in the pouch. It is now half grown, and the 

 trio make a most attractive exhibit. 



The U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey sent an expedition to little- 

 known Swan Island, off the coast of Honduras, and collected for the 

 National Zoological Park 7 Swan Island iguanas, 2 Nelson's Anolis, 

 3 Sceloporus spiny lizards, and a Nelson's gecko. 



Ralph S. Scott, Washington big-game hunter, captured a baby tiger 

 while on a trip to India last year. A contest was held to name it (win- 



