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THE DIAMOND-BACKED TERRAPIN. 

 Albino specimen from Texas. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Manatee. Attention is again called to the 

 fact that the manatee presented on September 

 5th, 1906, by Mr. A. W. Dimock. of IMarco, 

 Plorida, is still living comfortably in its pool 

 at the Aquarium. It lias therefore, as this 

 BfLLETix goes to press, lived nearly nineteen 

 montJis in captivity and lias broken the cap- 

 tivity record for a manatee by one month. 

 It has never missed a meal since its arrival 

 and has subsisted contentedly on lettuce leaf 

 trinnnings in winter when salt water eel grass 

 was imohtainable. 



Improvement a. A m o n g 

 t li e improvements effected 

 at the Aquarium during the 

 year 1907, were additional 

 gas and electric lighting for 

 the tanks and pools, a feed- 

 water heater to secure econ- 

 omy in coal consumption, 

 and a lironze heater for sea 

 water. 



Harbor Seal. At the close 

 of the Exposition at James- 

 town, A'irginia, the U. S. 

 Fisheries Bureau presented 

 to the Aquarium a harbor 

 seal which had been on exhi- 

 bition at the Exposition 

 during the summer. 



Sea-Lions. The two sea- 

 lions added to the Aquai'- 

 ium collection last fall 

 proved to be uncommonly 

 desirable specimens. They 

 liave done little of the noisy 

 barking that most sea-lions 

 indulge in, and their active 

 frolics in the water are 

 usually continued all day 

 long, to the great interest 

 I if visitors. 



./ 1 fendanee. The number 

 (if visitors at the Aquar- 

 ium in 1907 amounted to 

 oxer two nnllions — an av- 

 erage of 5,800 a day. The 

 January and February at- 

 tendance of the present 

 year has been nearly one- 

 third larger than ever be- 

 fore. 

 Albino Terrapin. Messrs. Chcsebro Broth- 

 ers, of Fulton Mark(>t, jjresented to the 

 Aquarium, on December J30th, an albino dia- 

 mond-backed terrapin, which is of unusual 

 interest, owing to the rarity of albinism 

 among turtles. The top shell measures seven 

 and one-quarter inches. It is a perfect al- 

 bino in shell, head, feet and skin, lacking, 

 however, the pink eyes usual among such 

 specimens. The carapace and plastron have 

 a creamy tint, somewhat less white than that 

 of the head and legs. The customary small 



FLASHLIGHT PHOTOGRAPH OF BROWN TROUT. 

 Several of these are albinos. 



