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NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



SPECTACLED BEAR. 

 Presented by Edgar Beecher Bronson. 



Among the most noteworthy accessions of the year were the 

 following : a pair of elands, presented by the Duke of Bedford ; a 

 two-year-old spectacled bear, (Ursus ornatus) , presented by 

 Edgar Beecher Bronson ; three solenodons, from Hayti, presented 

 by Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Adams, of Washington, D. C. ; one 

 solenodon, deposited by the Musemn of Comparative Zoology, 

 Cambridge, Mass. ; a pair of young Siberian tigers, a snow leop- 

 ard, a Congo sitatunga, two chimpanzees, an orang-utan, a 

 chacma baboon and two wanderoo monkeys. 



The greatest rarity of the year's accessions was the half- 

 grown male spectacled bear that we owe to the enterprise and 



