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Berlin Zoo, W. Germany, 2 striped African mongooses. 



Cleveland Zoo, Cleveland, Ohio, G black ducks. 



Crandon Park Zoo, Miami, Fla., 2 red-breasted teaL 



Deer Forest, Coloma, Mich., 2 aoudads. 



Ellison, Robert J., Falls Church, Va., 3 desert iguanas, horned lizard, whii>- 



tail lizard, desert tortoise. 

 Hanson, Charles, Fort Clinton, Ohio, 4 Blanding's semi-box turtles, Butler's 



garter suake. 

 Houston Zoo, Houston, Tex., 2 coral snakes, coach-whip snake, hognosed snake, 



indigo snake, bull snake, speckled snake. 

 Meade, Richard, Hyatt8\alle, Md., 2 Audubon's caracaras. 

 New York Zoo, New York, N.Y., 2 boa constrictors, 2 Japanese water snakes, 2 



anacondas, 2 puff adders, 2 mamushi (Ancistrodon). 

 Payne, Mrs. Edward, College Park, Md., 2 saw-whet owls. 

 Philadelphia Zoo, Philadelphia, Pa., 2 coscoroba swans, 2 ruddy sheldrakes, 2 



South American sheldrakes, 2 Egyptian geese, 2 wood rails, black-faced ibis, 



long-eared owl. 

 Quebec Zoo, Orsainvllle, Quebec, 6 evening grosbeaks, 2 white-capped sparrows. 

 Riverside Park Zoo, Scottsbluff, Nebr., 2 golden eagles. 

 Rochester Zoo, Rochester, N.Y., 3 sika deer. 

 San Antonio Zoo, San Antonio, Tex., 5 reddish egrets, 4 cattle egrets, 6 roseate 



spoonbills, 2 roadrunner.s, ocellated turkey, 2 white-faced glossy ibises, 2 cha- 



chalacas, 2 cacomistles, 3 nine-banded armadillos. 

 Washington Park Zoo, Portland, Oreg., Columbian ground squirrel, coyote, moun- 

 tain beaver, 3 murres, raven, 6 Pacific rattlesnakes, 2 rubber boas, buUsnake. 

 Zoorama, New Market, Va., guanaco, 2 fallow deer, peccary. 



BIRTHS AND HATCHINGS 



The number of young bom in the Zoo was gratifying, although 

 there were, as always, some disappointments. Tlie pair of Pallas's 

 cats, purchased last year, had young but did not raise them. The 

 snow leopard, which had a cub two years ago that was successfully 

 hand-raised, gave birth again, and this time the young was left with 

 the mother and did not survive. For the first time in 30 years, timber 

 wolves were bom here, but none survived. On the other hand, a pair 

 of margays had a kitten which the mother successfully raised, the first 

 time for this Zoo. A hybrid macaque born in the Zoo is of interest 

 because its sire was the famous Philippine macaque that in 1952 soared 

 37 miles into space encased in an Aerobee rocket shot from the Air 

 Force Base at Holloman, N. Mex. It and a female (since deceased) 

 were the first primates to reach such an altitude and survive. 



Following the procedure of previous years, all births and batchings 

 are listed below, whether or not the young were successfully raised. 

 In many instances the rexjord of animals having bred in captivity is of 

 importance. The tree kangaroo previously mentioned (p. 132) is 

 included because, while it was not actually bom here, the date of birth 

 of kangaroos is customarily listed as the date when they are first 

 observed in the pouch. 



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