TENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



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sess are, nearly all of them, species which cannot live through our 

 severe northern winters without good shelter buildings, and some 

 heat. 



In enumerating our species by groups they will be taken up 

 without strict reference to their zoological sequence, and with 

 no burden of technical names. 



DEER. 



While our collection of deer already contains good representa- 

 tives of nearly all of the most important cervine groups many 

 additions must be made, and with as little delay as possible. Al- 

 though we have for years exhibited caribou, and last year were 

 in possession of two species of South American deer — one being 

 the very curious Ccri'iis palndosits — it is our misfortune to have 

 none of those at this date. To our present stock of deer we expect 

 to add about 20 foreign species. But it is not our purpose to mul- 

 tiply forms that closely resemble each other. Of the foreign spe- 

 cies to be added, several are known to be anything but hardy in 

 captivity. All the South American deer, the brockets, and all the 

 members of the Genus Rangifcr (reindeer and caribou) are diffi- 

 cult to acclimatize anywhere outside of their natural ranges. 



