82 ANNUAL EEPOKT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1913. 



Mrs. Ricketson, Washington, D. C, a common raccoon. 

 Mr. Richard A. Sargent, Washington, D. C, a common canary. 

 Mrs. Gurnon P. Scott, Washington, D. C, a shell parrakeet. 

 Mi". E. T. Seton, Cos Cob, Conn., three common skunks. 

 Mr. Ellis Spear, Washington, D. C, two common canaries. 

 Miss Straub, Washington. D. C, a green parrot. 

 Mr. H. E. Thomas, Washington, D. C., a black snake. 

 Mrs. E. St. Clair Thompson, Washington, D. C, a common canary. 

 Mrs. C. V. Williams, Washington, D. C, an alligator. 

 Hon. Woodrow Wilson, Washington, D. C, a horned lizard. 

 The Zoological Society of Philadelphia, six muskrats. 



Unknown donors, a screech owl, five barn owls, an English pheasant, and an 

 alligator. 



LOSSES OF ANIMALS. 



The most serious loss was among the ruminants. An eland, a 

 bontebok, a Coke's hartebeest, and a harnessed antelope died from 

 tuberculosis; a moose and a reindeer from enteritis; two tahr goats 

 from pneumonia ; and an American bison, 21 years old, from arterio- 

 sclerosis. A fur seal also died from enteritis and a grizzly bear 

 that when captured, 19 years before, weighed 730 pounds was killed 

 because of its general decrepitude. A number of birds were lost 

 through the depredations of raccoons and other animals living at 

 large in the park. The night herons had increased to such an extent 

 in the flying cage that they interfered with the nesting of other 

 birds there, and the greater part of them (114) were disposed of, 

 a few as gifts to other zoological collections. 



Of animals that died in the park, 107 were transferred to the 

 National Museum. Autopsies were made as heretofore by the Patho- 

 logical Division of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of 

 A^griculture.^ 



STATEMENT OF THE COLLECTION. 



ACCESSIONS DURING THE YEAR. 



Presented 66 



Purchased 162 



Born and hatched in National Zoological Park 78 



Received in exchange 18 



Deposited in National Zoological Park 6 



Captured in National Zoological Park 1 



Total 331 



1 The causes of death were reported to be as follows : Enteritis, 37 ; gastritis, 1 ; 

 impaction of bowel, 3 ; pneumonia, 14 ; tuberculosis, 10 ; congestion of lungs, 4 ; asper- 

 gillosis, 4 ; malignant catarrh of nose and throat, 1 ; inflammation of pharynx and 

 larynx, 1 ; congestion of liver, 1 ; septicemia, 3 ; sarcoma, 1 ; abscess, 1 ; gangrene of 

 thyroid gland, 1 ; generalized fat necrosis, 1 ; arteriosclerosis, 1 ; umbilical infection, 1 ; 

 starvation (snakes), 3; killed because of arthritis, 1, and of senile debility, 1; accidents 

 (killed by animals, etc.), 32; no cause found (only viscera examined in most cases), 12. 



