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be shipped to New York. We entertain the hope that it will be 

 possible for Mr, Haagner to pay a visit to America in connection 

 with the transportation of the shipment that is now being col- 

 lected. If he comes to America we will endeavor to see that he 

 does not return empty-handed to his zoological park. 



The hurried and brief visit of Mr. William Beebe to British 

 Guiana in September and October yielded for the Zoological Park 

 a fine young tapir, a spotted cavy, and the beautiful silky ant- 

 eater fully described and illustrated by Mr. Beebe in the Zoo- 

 logical Society Bulletin for January, 1918. 



Among the miscellaneous purchases of the year the follow- 

 ing are worthy of mention: 2 Japanese red-faced monkeys, 1 

 chimpanzee, 1 chacma baboon, 1 golden baboon, 2 yaguarundi 

 cats, 2 South American martens, 4 red foxes, 2 ocelots, 1 coyote, 

 1 South American fox, 1 bay lynx, 5 spotted cavies, 1 tree porcu- 

 pine, 1 tayra, 1 great ant-eater 2 Lund's opossums and 3 mule 

 deer. 



The desire of regiments in the American army to possess 

 and transport to France regimental mascots resulted in a general 

 prohibition of mascot exportation, and the presentation to the 

 Zoological Park of a number of specimens. Through this chan- 

 nel we received, as company or regimental gifts, 4 young black 

 bears, 2 young cinnamon bears and a young goat that had made 

 a trial trip of 700 miles in an aeroplane. Among other gifts re- 

 ceived were 3 macaque monkeys, 1 rhesus monkey, 2 white-faced 

 sapajous, 1 Canada porcupine, 5 common raccoons, 1 crab-eating 

 raccoon, 2 coyotes, 1 coati mundi, 2 red foxes and 1 Mexican deer. 

 The most noteworthy gift of the year consisted of 2 black-faced 

 kangaroos and 2 Woodward kangaroos presented by Mr. Ellis 

 S. Joseph. 



The following is a list of the births during 1917 : 



