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United States National Museum, Wasliington, D. C, hybrid canary. 

 Guy van Dyne, St. Petersburg, Fla., Florida diamond-back rattlesnake. 

 Robert Wallace, Washington, D. C, red-tailed hawk, Florida king snake, 3 water 



snakes, garter snake, blacksnake. 

 Lester Walters, Washington, D. C, barn owl. 

 Mrs. Charles Warren, Washington, D. C, orange-cheeked wax-bill, Swainson's 



bronzed mannikin. 

 H. F. Watson, Washington, D. C, alligator. 



E. H. Wood, Parksville, S. C, 61 Florida cooters, 10 painted turtles. 

 W. B, Wood, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, 2 horned lizards. 

 Maj. G. R. Young, Portsmouth, Va., bald eagle. 

 Source unknown: 3 Reeve's pheasants. 



Exchanges. — A concave-casque hornbill was obtained from Louis 

 Ruhe, Inc., New York City. From the South Australian Acclimati- 

 zation Park, Adelaide, Australia, were received an elegant paroquet, 

 2 Bourke's paroquets, 2 Cape Barren geese, a blue-tongued lizard, a 

 monitor, and 2 vulpine phalangers. 



Pv/rchases. — Important purchases during the year at prices that 

 made them practically gifts were 3 white-lipped peccaries from R. E. 

 Stadelman, Tela, Honduras; the rare Komodo dragon from Lawrence 

 Griswold and William Harkness, New York City ; and a maned wolf, 

 collected in South America by Dr. S. A. Daveron, Baltimore, Md. 

 There was also purchased an aard-vark and a gerenuk, the first of 

 their kind ever exhibited in the park. 



Births. — There were 40 mammals born and 19 birds hatched in the 

 park during the year. These include the following: 



MAMMALS 



Scientific name Common name No. 



Ammotragus lervia Aoudad 1 



Axis axis Axis deer 3 



Bison bison American bison 2 



Bubalus bubalis Indian buffalo 1 



Cervus duvauceli Barasingha deer 1 



Dama dama Fallow deer 5 



Dolichotis patagonica Patagoniau cavy 2 



Dolichotis salinicola Dwarf cavy 4 



Equus quagga chapmani Chapman's zebra 1 



Felis onca Jaguar 2 



Hemitragus jemlahicus Tahr 2 



Hyelaphus porcinus Hog deer 1 



Lama glama Llama 1 



Macropus rufus Great red kangaroo 1 



Odocoileus virginianus Virginia deer 3 



Ovis canadensis Rocky Mountain sheep 1 



Ovis europaeus Mouflon 2 



Sika nippon Japanese deer G 



Ursus gyas Alaska Peninsula bear 1 



