94 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1926 
fer-de-lance and Bothrops alternatus. Two eggs were produced 
by the pair of California condors but failed to hatch. 
Eachanges——From the Zoological Garden of Wellington, New 
Zealand, were received 4 rock-hopper penguins, 2 paradise ducks, 
2 lesser rails, and 2 specimens of tuatera, a lizard-like animal that 
is of great interest as being the oldest type of reptile now living. 
The penguin, lesser rail, and paradise duck were species new to the 
collection. Three female sea lions were received from the Zoological 
Society of San Diego, Calif. 
Purchases.—A_single-wattled cassowary, Humboldt’s saki, Abys- 
sinian lynx and alligator lizard (Dracena guianensis), all new to 
the collection, were purchased during the year, also a black leopard, 
2 prong-horns, an Australian cassowary, and a small lot of finches 
and other cage-birds to replenish the collections in the bird house. 
Deposits—Among the animals received on indefinite deposit 
were an orang and a pair of white fallow deer from Mr. Victor J. 
Evans, a chacma baboon from Mr. E. R. Grant, and a silver-black 
fox from the Keystone Fox Ranch. 
The Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture, 
transferred to the park a number of animals taken by field agents of 
the bureau, including ravens, magpies, western porcupines, 2 Mexi- 
can pumas, and 13 white pelicans. 
REMOVALS 
Fifty-five mammals, birds, and reptiles were sent away in exchange 
to other zoological gardens during the year. Among these were 
two American bison, an elk, six Japanese deer, four fallow deer, a 
guanaco, a hippopotamus, an European bear, some small mammals, 
and a few birds and reptiles. 
Losses by death were mainly either of animals that had been long 
in the collection or of those very recently received. Among the 
former were a sloth bear that had lived in the park 21 years and 
6 months; a cinnamon bear, 17 years; a yak, 18 years and 3 months; 
a sambar deer and a Bactrian camel, each 14 years and 3 months; 
a male Rocky Mountain sheep, 8 years and 4 months; a rhea, 16 
years and 5 months. A male mona monkey, survivor of the pair, 
the female of which died a year earlier after having borne 10 
young, had been in the collection 16 years. A male Grevy’s zebra 
that died October 9, 1925, was received February 11, 1913, from the 
United States Department of Agriculture, where it had been used 
for breeding purposes. Other important animals that had lived for 
shorter periods were a snow leopard, two sea lions, a female Rocky 
Mountain sheep, a female Rocky Mountain goat, a capybara, two 
