ANNALS 



CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



VOLUME IX. NO. 1-2. 



Editorial Notes. 



The delay in the publication of the present number of the Annals 

 which should have appeared in November, 1913, has for various 

 reasons been unavoidable. 



Since the last issue of the Annals a number of exhibits have been 

 placed on view in the Museum. In the Gallery of Mammals the group 

 representing the male and the female of the African buffalo, Bos 

 biihaliis caffer, presented to the Museum by Mr. Childs Prick, has 

 attracted widespread attention on the part of naturalists and the 

 general public. Another group which may well be regarded as a 

 masterpiece of the taxidermic art is the group of jaguars, secured for 

 the Museum by our good friend, Mr. John M. Phillips, in the vicinity 

 of Tampico, Mexico, several years ago. This group, mounted by 

 Mr. R. H. Santens and his assistants, is the first group of jaguars 

 which has ever been mounted in any museum. There is nothing 

 like it either in the eastern or western hemisphere. On one side of 

 the group is a huge male jaguar, standing upon a log of ebony. This 

 brute was long the, scourge of the cattle-ranches in the vicinity, where 

 he was finally shot by Mr. Phillips, and was known by the rancheros 

 as " Old One-Fang." He had lost one of the canines of the lower 

 jaw, and the slaughter of the cattle which occurred was long correctly 

 attributed to him by the cattlemen, who after examining the victims 

 detected the fact that the slayer was the possessor of but a single 



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