SECRETARY’S REPORT 141 
GIFTS 
The Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior 
has continued to cooperate in the procurement of desirable species of 
North American birds and animals. Outstanding among accessions 
this year are a pair of trumpter swans on deposit here. These beauti- 
ful North American birds had almost vanished a few years ago, but by 
careful management on the part of the Department of the Interior they 
have been saved from extinction. These two were collected by Winston 
E. Banko in the Red Rock Lakes National Waterfowl Refuge in west- 
ern Montana. Other stations of the Fish and Wildlife Service have 
sent the Zoo four woodcock, a bald eagle, an osprey, and numerous 
species of wild ducks. 
Through the Animal and Bird Protection Board of Hobart, Tas- 
mania, three Tasmanian devils were obtained. They had not been 
shown in this collection for many years. 
The Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, Belgium, sent the Zoo 
a fine pair of great black-casqued hornbills. These were formally 
presented by Baron Leopold Dhanis of the Belgian Embassy on 
January 16, 1958. 
Jack Marks, director of the Portland, Oreg., Zoo, in cooperation 
with the U.S. Navy, Operation Deepfreeze, brought back a number 
of Adelie penguins. Some of them went to the zoos in Portland, 
Oreg., San Diego, Calif., and New York, N. Y., and 12 were brought 
to the National Zoological Park and Johns Hopkins University. 
These birds are being studied by specialists in aspergillosis, the 
fungus disease that attacks penguins and other birds. The U.S. 
Navy also obtained for the Zoo a group of albatrosses of two species, 
Diomedea nigripes and D. immutabilis, but unfortunately the birds 
did not survive, the longest that any one lived being three months. 
The U.S. Army, 6th Infantry Division, stationed in Berlin, Ger- 
many, sent the Zoo a European brown bear that had been given them 
as a mascot by the citizens of Berlin on Armed Forces Day, 1957. 
The new recruit was so successful in his placement as mascot that 
he was soon promoted to private first class. Later he did what many 
soldiers have wanted to do—bit the first sergeant. He was imme- 
diately demoted to private, and in consequence thereof a short time 
later he went AWOL, causing great consternation in the regiment 
and in the city of Berlin. Despite his seemingly erratic Army career, 
he has been discharged honorably from the United States Army and 
is now enjoying his civilian life at the National Zoological Park. 
“Teddy” was formally presented by the Honorable Dewey Short, 
Assistant Secretary of the Army; representing the West German 
Republic was Brig. Gen. Wolf Dietrich Von Steinmetz; and Dr. 
