REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 73 



number is merely a record of those actually parked at one time, 

 it is not of value as indicating a total attendance but is of impor- 

 tance as showing the percentage attendance by States, Territories, 

 and countries. The District of Columbia comprised slightly over 

 48 percent; Maryland, 21 percent; Virginia, 14 percent; and the 

 remaining cars were from other States, Territories, and countries. 

 During years in which counts have been made on Sunday as well 

 as during the week it has been found that the j)ercentage of cars 

 from the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia is less, and 

 the percentage of the more distant States is correspondingly in- 

 creased. This is brought about by tourists coming to the Zoo on 

 Sundays when other points of interest are closed to them. 



The nineteenth annual meeting of the American Society of Mam- 

 malogists was held in Washington May 4 to 8, inclusive. Their 

 program included a trip to the Zoo on May 8, where luncheon was 

 served in the large mammal house. The small mammal house was 

 first opened to the public as this organization entered it. 



ACCESSIONS 



Gifts. — Many specimens were received as gifts this year. Inter- 

 esting additions were a pair each of cheer pheasants and white- 

 crested kaleege from Dr. J. Delacour, Cleres, France ; a pair of blue- 

 crowned hanging paroquets and a tui paroquet from Alan N. Steyne, 

 Washington, D. C, and a male Kaibab squirrel from the United 

 States Forest Service. 



We take this opportunity to express appreciation for the assist- 

 ance and cooperation of the personnel of the United States Biological 

 Survey, National Park Service, and Forest Service, and Vernon 

 Bailey, of Washington, D. C, Theodore Scheffer, of Puyallup, Wash., 

 Alex Walker, of Tillamook, Oreg., and John M. Davis, of Arlington, 

 Va., for gifts of American small mammals for stocking the small 

 mammal house when it was opened. More than 150 small mam- 

 mals were received through them from localities ranging from 

 Georgia to Washington and Oregon. 



When the small mammal and great ape house was completed, the 

 Director of the Park was on an extended trip to the southern Asiatic 

 region to assemble a collection for the Zoo, so it was not advisable, 

 even if it had been financially possible, to stock this building with 

 exotic animals. Arrangements were accordingly made for plac- 

 ing on exhibition a collection of American small mammals. It was 

 probably the largest and best collection of its kind ever assembled, 

 and has attracted much favorable attention. It is particularly 

 valuable in showing the considerable diversity of forms common to 

 North America and which are frequently overlooked or ignored. 



