NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 



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The most important deaths during the year were the fol- 

 lowing : 



1 Blotched Giraffe (very young) 1 Lioness (destroyed; old age) 

 3 Orang-Utans 1 Tashkent Wapiti (old age) 



3 Chimpanzees 1 Grant Zebra (accident) 



1 Gelada Baboon 1 Big-Horn Sheep 



The list of important births in 1914 is as follows 



3 Hog Deer 1 



6 Axis Deer 2 



3 Sika Deer 1 



4 Red Deer 2 



5 White-Tailed Deer 1 

 4 Fallow Deer 4 

 2 Malayan Sambar Deer 1 

 1 Eld Deer 1 

 4 American Elk 2 

 4 American Bison 3 



Yak 



Elands 



Beatrix Antelope 



Aoudads 



Persian Ibex 



Himalayan Tahrs 



Mongolian Wild Horse 



Hybrid Bear 



American Beaver 



Paradoxures 



The following animals were sold during 1914: 2 Indian 

 sambar deer ; 8 fallow deer ; 2 Virginia deer ; 1 hog deer ; 1 wild 

 horse ; 2 hamadryas baboons ; 2 raccoons ; 1 lion ; 1 hybrid bear. 



Mr. Lee S. Crandall, Assistant Curator of Birds, returned 

 in August from a collecting trip in Central America with the 

 following mammals: 1 pair raccoons, 1 pair coati-mundis ; 1 

 pair red-bellied squirrels; 1 murine opossum and 1 gray spider 

 monkey. 



The complete census of the mammals at the close of 1914 

 is as follows : 



