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that in spite of general protection in the United States, the 

 bands of antelope are steadily diminishing. Undoubtedly this 

 is largely due to illegal slaughter. So far as the Zoological 

 Park is concerned we are reluctantly compelled to class tlie 

 prong-horn with the impossible moose and caribou, and resolve 

 to procure no more of them. 



Among the gifts of the year 1912 were a young polar bear, 

 from Mr. S. Osgood Pell, and a young grizzly bear. The latter 

 animal was the gift of Mr. N. K. Luxton, of Banff, Alberta. 

 It was captured in the Brazeau Country, which is north of the 

 North Fork of the Saskatchewan River, northwestern Alberta. 

 This is our only representative of the species from that region. 

 A fine young Kadiak bear came as the gift of the Junior Auxil- 

 iary of the New York Zoological Society, and Mr. Harry Whit- 

 ney and Captain Robert B. Bartlett presented 5 young hooded 

 seals. 



Other important accessions of mammals during the year 

 were the following : 



Two sphinx baboons, two long-armed baboons, one hama- 

 dryas baboon, a fine pair of Bengal tigers, one cheetah, one 

 Arctic fox, two pandas, five sea lions, three pygmy hippopotami, 

 four prong-horn antelopes, one South American deer, one male 

 fallow deer, four Rocky Mountain goats, two Tasmanian devils 

 and one Tasmanian wolf. 



The following is a list of the important births during the 



