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ZOOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY BULLETIN 



Xo. 06 Publi-shcd hi/ the Xck- York Zoological Sorictij Ociohcr, 1909 



REPORT OX EUROPEAX TRIP. 



Bi/ Raymond L. Ditjiars. 



WITH a sptcial fund of two thousand dol- 

 lars for the purchase of mammals, birds 

 and reptiles, tlie writer left New York on 

 the 8th of last May, for a tour of the Zoological 

 Gardens of England, Holland, Belgium, France 

 and Germany, and an inspection of the animal 

 markets in those countries. Besides the fund 

 for the purchase of animals, needed for our col- 

 lections, the writer took with him a large series 

 of reptiles to be used in exchange with the Zoo- 

 logical Gardens of London, in obtaining similar 

 specimens for the Park. The east-bound pas- 

 sage was made on the S. S. "Minnetonka" of the 

 Atlantic-Transport Line. A. trans-shipment 



from the Red D Line steamer "Philadelphia" 

 from Venezuela, which lot was made up of mam- 

 mals and birds collected and donated to the 

 London Zoological Gardens by Captain Albert 

 Pam was taken charge of by the writer, when 

 the collection arrived in New York and cared 

 for together with his sliipment of reptiles. The 

 writer arrived in London without losses during 

 the voyage. 



The animal market in England during the 

 spring and early summer of 1909 was the poor- 

 est in some years. A thorough canvass of all the 

 shops in London, Southampton, Plymouth and 

 Liverpool, resulted in but few purchases of 



MOUNTAIN ZEBRA; FEMALE. 



