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NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



CAGE FROXT IX SMALL MAMALVLS' HUL.SE. 



escaped and was shot to death. All the foreign deer have been 

 maintained in excellent health, but onr native Cervidae have not 

 done equally well. 



COLLECTIONS. 



Although the beginning of 1904 found the Zoological Park in 

 possession of as many living mammals, birds, and reptiles as its 

 installations could well accommodate, the temptation to secure 

 additional specimens of special rarity and scientific value could 

 not always be resisted. As a result, the end of the year found 

 all animal quarters, except a few reserved cages in the Small- 

 Mammal House, full to overflowing. When rare and long-de- 

 sired types finally btcnnie procurable, it is often impossible to 

 refrain from acquiring them. 



DI■:I'ART^n•:xT of mammals. 



In gifts to llie mammal collections, the most noteworthy event 

 of the vear was the arrival from sr)utheastern ( iermanv oi a fine 



