TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT 75 



The new Animal Hospital which has been under construc- 

 tion during the summer should be completed and ready for use 

 during the early part of P'ebruary. This hospital will afford the 

 best facilities for the observation and care of injured or sick 

 animals, and, at the same time, by the prompt removal of all 

 suspicious cases of illness from exhibition, will protect the 

 healthy specimens from the danger of contracting infectious 

 diseases. 



The isolation of the hospital will permit of the successful 

 treatment of distemper among the carnivores, and of other con- 

 tagious diseases without fear of an epidemic occurring among 

 our collection. 



Of the deaths occurring among the mammals, they were 

 divided as follows: 



Primates 75 



Carnivores 44 



Ungulates 37 



Proboscidians 2 



Rodents 45 



Marsupials 10 



Edentates 9 



Total 222 



DEPARTMENT OF BIRDS. 



C. William Beebe, Curator; Lee S. Crandall, Assistant Curator; 

 Samuel Stacey, Head Keeper. 



In spite of the continued demoralized condition of the Euro- 

 pean animal market, the bird collections have been able to hold 

 their own during the past year. The first few months of the 

 war so completely checked the sources of supply on which we 

 were dependent that the effect on the collection was at once no- 

 ticeable. Since then, however, we have developed other means 

 of obtaining specimens, particularly from South America, and 

 we expect to be able to maintain our present position until nor- 

 mal conditions again prevail. 



Early in the summer, the Curator, accompanied by Mr. G. 

 Inness Hartley and Keeper Herbert Atkin, visited the Zoological 

 Gardens of Para, Brazil, and there secured a large collection of 

 Brazilian mammals, birds and reptiles. Sixty-two birds of forty- 

 three species, of which fifteen were new to us, were included. 



