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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



This bird is still active, and for company it 

 had until recently a male mourning dove. How- 

 ever, the male mourning dove has been placed 

 in an adjoining cage, because, in spite of the 

 fact that a very good painting of the bird was 

 placed on the cage, some people had trouble in 

 distinguishing the Passenger Pigeon from the 

 mourning dove. When the flock was originally 

 received the birds were not considered much of 

 a rarity, and no more especial care was taken 

 of them than of other birds. However, as the 

 flock decreased in numbers, and the birds be- 

 came scarcer, greater attention was paid to 

 them, and special attention was paid to their 

 feeding. As a result, we have had good suc- 

 cess with them, and I really believe that if we 

 could secure some younger birds our experience 

 would enable us to raise young, and increase the 

 flock from a small beginning. 



The last remaining bird has been promised 

 to the Smithsonian Institution ; and, while it is 

 hoped that it will be a long time yet before this 

 bird dies, it is hoped that when the end does 

 come it will be in good plumage and condition 

 for mounting. Such was not the case with the 

 old male that died about a year ago. He was 

 moulting at the time and in poor condition, so 

 that it was impossible to secure anything like 

 a good result in the mounting of it. 



S. A. Stephan, 

 Gen. Mgr. Cincinnati Zoological Garden 



PASSENGER PIGEON, 

 in the Cincinnati Zoologit 



WHITE RHINOCEROS HEAD. 



OUR WHITE RHINOCEROS HEAD. 



THE National Collection of Heads and Horns 

 has received from Col. Theodore Roosevelt, 

 as a gift, a mounted head of a White or 

 Square-Mouthed Rhinoceros. {Rhinoceros simus 

 cottoni). The specimen was shot by the donor 

 in the Lado District, west bank of the Nile, on 

 January 28, 1910, and was mounted b^^ James 

 L. Clark, of New York. The head is very 

 large, the horn is tlip second best of the series 

 collected by Col. Roosevelt, and the mounting of 

 the head is exceedingly perfect and life-like. 

 In fact^ it is believed to be beyond the reach of 

 adverse criticism, and as a whole the gift is re- 

 garded as a grand prize. 



The most remarkable feature of the head is 

 its enormous length, forward of the ears, in pro- 

 portion to its depth, in which this species of 

 rhinoceros is quite unique. Its length from the 

 crease immediately behind the ear to the end of 

 the nose is thirty-six and one-half inches ; the 

 length of the front horn is twenty-five inches, 

 and of the rear horn seven and one-eighth inches. 

 The base of the front horn has a circumference 

 of twentj'-one inches, and that of the rear is 

 seventeen inches. 



The fact that the National ^luseum now con- 

 tains the finest existing collection of specimens 

 of the White Rhinoceros should be a source of 

 pride to the Society. W. T. H. 



