SECRETARY’S REPORT 151 
list of live animals collected by Mr. Grimmer in British Guiana 
follows: 
22 Cook’s tree boas 7 tawny-bellied seed-eaters 
Vine snake 2 Swainson’s grackles 
2 yellow tegus 2 rice grosbeaks 
Ameiva lizard 3 shiny cowbirds 
Anaconda 3 lesser yellow finches 
British Guiana green lizard 5 red-breasted marshbirds 
Whipsnake 7 ground doves 
4 common jacanas 12 hoatzins 
2 black-throated cardinals 2 agoutis 
In addition, a small collection of museum specimens of animals 
indigenous to the Abary River region was added to the accessions of 
the U.S. National Museum. 
GIFTS 
The Rocky Mountain goat had not been represented in the Zoo for 
many years, and therefore the gift from the Montana State Fish and 
Game Commission of a trio of these spectacular animals was much 
appreciated. From the same source came also a herd of five prong- 
horn antelopes. 
Ross E. Wilson, vice president and general manager of the Fire- 
stone Rubber Co., presented a fine West African leopard from Harbel, 
Liberia. 
Dr. Hubert Fringes, of Pennsylvania State University, who has been 
doing research on the care of albatrosses in captivity, presented a 
group of two Laysan albatrosses and three of the black-footed vari- 
ety. Thanks to the discovery of the need for salt in the diet of sea 
birds, these birds, which usually do not do well in captivity, are thriv- 
ing. Another Laysan albatross was added to the group asa gift from 
Dr. W. J. Carr, of Bucknell University. 
The Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior 
continued to cooperate in the procurement of desirable species of 
North American animals and birds. During the past year this agency 
has secured for the Zoo a caribou from Alaska, a northern porcupine, 
a white-fronted goose, 2 horned grebes, 10 greater scaups, 2 redheads, 
and 2 wood ducks. In June the Service offered the Zoo a polar 
bear cub that had been captured in Alaska. Owing to the fact that 
the Zoo had had to absorb a Wage Board increase in salaries, funds 
were embarrassingly low in the last quarter of the fiscal year, and 
there was no money to pay the cub’s air transportation to Washington. 
Station WMAI-TYV volunteered to have the little bear flown to the 
Zoo, where it has already become a great favorite with the visiting 
public. 
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