SECRETARY’S REPORT 143 
Traub, Lt. Col. Robert, Kuala Lum- 
pur, Malaya, linsang, twin-barred 
tree snake, 2 Pope’s vipers, pit vi- 
per, Malayan racer, blue Malayan 
coral snake, 2 regal pythons, grass- 
green whipsnake, 4 giant geckos, 4 
forest lizards, 2 skinks. 
Urlass, H. M., Bangkok, Thailand, 
leopard. 
Welch, Mrs. A. L., Washington, D.C., 
collection of tropical fish. 
Williams, Mrs. Fred A., Washington, 
D.C., red and blue macaw. 
Xanten, William Jr., Washington, 
D.C., chicken snake, 2 Florida king 
snakes, corn snake, 4 garter snakes, 
ribbon snake, 2 Florida water 
snakes, green water snake, scarlet 
king snake, 4 skinks, eastern dia- 
mond-backed rattlesnake, 2 Florida 
water terrapins, musk turtle. 
PURCHASES 
Included among animals acquired from dealers this year were three 
species of African sunbirds, a bataleur eagle, a pair of Argus pheas- 
ants, a Cape monitor, a large Indian monitor, a young Brazilian tapir, 
eight quokkas (Setonix brachyurus) from the Perth (Australia) 
Zoological Gardens, a white-headed piping guan, 2 nocturnal curas- 
sows, 2 gray hornbills, 2 little black woodpeckers, 2 female red deer, 
2 forest falcons, a chimango, and an olingo. 
EXCHANGES 
Animals were obtained by exchanges made with the following 
ZOOS: 
Calgary Zoological Park, Calgary, Al- 
berta, Swainson’s hawk, 2 Steller’s 
jays, 4 evening grosbeaks. 
Cincinnati Zoo, Cincinnati, Ohio, 
eland, 2 jaguars, a Queen of Ba- 
varia conure. 
Crandon Park Zoo, Miami, Fla., 2 
vulturine guineafowl, 2 tree ducks, 
ocellated turkey. 
Edmonton Zoological Society, Edmon- 
ton, Alberta, 4 snowy owls, 2 wol- 
verines. 
Houston Zoo, Houston, Tex., western 
rattlesnakes, copperheads, and oth- 
er reptiles. 
San Diego Zoological Society, San 
Diego, Calif., Uta lizards. 
Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, Wash., 
2 band-tailed pigeons, 2 magpies, 2 
Steller’s jays. 
BIRTHS AND HATCHINGS 
The snow leopard, previously referred to, is the outstanding birth 
of the year. A gibbon hybrid, offspring of another hybrid, was born 
on January 6, 1958, and is being raised at home by Keeper Herbert R. 
Stroman. Vicky Jean, the black-faced chimpanzee born on June 20, 
1957, has become one of the Zoo’s most popular exhibits. She now 
spends most of each day in her cage but is still taken home at night 
by Bernard Gallagher, the keeper who raised her. 
Because of their curious life history, the hatching of Surinam toads 
in captivity is always of interest. One of the Zoo’s females laid eggs, 
the male carefully embedded them in her back, and 30 little toads 
eventually hatched. 
