TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT 69 



and the young lioness, a gift of the Junior Auxiliary of the 

 Zoological Society, and also from Mr. Drake, is strikingly hand- 

 some and desirable. 



In a short time steps must be taken to establish between 

 New York and South Africa a direct and continuous line of 

 imports. It is now imperatively necessary for all managers of 

 zoological parks and gardens to take the steps that are necessary 

 to insure the future adequate supplies of old world animals com- 

 ing through channels entirely new. 



The more noteworthy purchases of mammals during the 

 year 1915 were a chimpanzee, orang-utan, gray gibbon, yellow 

 baboon, saki monkey, 2 howling monkeys, 9 beavers, great ant- 

 eater, 2 Hoffman sloths, 4 American wapiti, 1 Dybowsky deer, 

 1 mouse deer, 2 lynx, 2 marten and 2 fisher. From G. Tyrwhitt- 

 Drake, of Cobtree Manor, Maidstone, England, were purchased 

 a lioness, Scotch wildcat, black-backed jackal, dromedary, 

 guanaco, reed-buck and a vulpine phalanger. The animals re- 

 ceived from Mr. Drake were the only mammals that came from 

 Europe during the past year. 



Among the more important gifts were a series of monkeys 

 and small carnivorous mammals, from the Collins-Day South 

 American Expedition, 1 female Virginia deer, 1 Mexican deer 

 and 2 ocelots. 



From the Society's expedition to Para, in charge of Curator 

 Beebe, the following mammals were obtained: 2 black spider 

 monkeys, 1 white-faced sapajou, 4 hooded sapajous, 4 weeper 

 sapajous, 2 black tamarins, 2 squirrel monkeys, 1 Humboldt's 

 woolly monkey, 2 red coati-mundis, 2 crab eating raccoons, 2 

 Brazilian wild dogs, 2 banded ocelots, 1 grison, 1 tayra, 3 kinka- 

 jous, 2 armadillos, 3 banded opossums, 1 sharp-nosed opossum, 

 3 red agoutis, 1 paca, 4 Brazilian squirrels and 1 Brannick's giant 

 rat. The last-named animal is particularly rare and interesting. 



BIRTHS DURING 1915. 



The births during 1915 represent the usual number of valu- 

 able animals. The list of the most important species is as follows : 



8 Virginia Deer 3 Hog Deer 



9 American Wapiti 1 Yak 



5 Axis Deer 1 Persian Ibex 



3 Fallow Deer 4 Himalayan Tahr 



