TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. 57 



DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALS. 

 William T. Hornaday, Curator ; Raymond L. Ditmars, Assistant Curator. 



Being in possession of the Small-Deer House, fully completed 

 and amply filled ; of a remodeled and perfect series of ranges and 

 corrals for the Rocky Mountain goats and Xorth American deer ; 

 with a very nearly complete outfit of thick-skinned animals in 

 readiness to fill the new Elephant House as soon as completed ; 

 with the Wichita National Bison Herd safely on its new range, 

 and with a very satisfactory list of births for the past year, I 

 think we may view our collection of mammals with some satis- 

 faction. 



The completion of the Small-Deer House has been a source of 

 very great relief, not only to the smaller hoofed animals, but also 

 to the ofiicers of the Park ! The building and its yards seem thus 

 far to be admirably adapted to their purposes, and these accom- 

 modations for our tropical deer already seem quite indispensable. 

 A considerable number of valuable and zoologically important 

 animals, such as the markhor, male barasinga, male Burmese 

 thameng. Yucatan deer, Molucca deer, luuntjac and various 

 small African antelopes that have been temporarily crowded out 

 of the Antelope House and each winter kept imiuured in storage 

 sheds, are now kept on exhibition, under the best sanitary con- 

 ditions. 



The careful remodeling and extension of the mountain goat 

 yards has more than doubled the space previously available for 

 those interesting animals, and has also given them a bank of earth, 

 covered with small trees, which will prove beneficial. Adjoining 

 two sides of the goats" range there has been established an ideal 

 small range for our herd of white-tailed deer, embracing a bit 

 of timber and brush, a grassy hillside and a square of drv, paved 

 yard, all surmounted by a background of coniferous planting. In 

 this installation the deer are thriving as they never have pre- 

 viously. 



In addition to the features mentioned above, the range space 

 between the llama yards and the elk corrals has been converted 

 into a series of four small ranges for mule deer and Columbian 

 black-tailed deer, all of which are now fully stocked with those 

 species. Thus we are enabled to exhibit our most important 

 American deer in a series. At present we have four male mule 

 deer, all in excellent condition. 



The most important mammalian accession during the year was 



