NOTES FROM THE SCOTTISH ZOOLOGICAL PARK 31 
NOTES FROM 
THE SCOTTISH ZOOLOGICAL PARK 
RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTION.—The additions to 
the collection in the Zoological Park during the past quarter 
included, of native animals, two otters and a number of birds, 
while amongst the foreigners there were a chipmunk, two raccoons, 
a female grey kangaroo, a pair of spotted dasyures (Australian 
‘native cats”), a young male mandrill, a young female polar bear, 
a Haussa ram, and several monkeys. 
A Wuite MonKkey.—White does not normally enter into the 
coloration of monkeys to any great extent, and then only in small 
areas or on parts which are more or less concealed, such as the 
under parts, insides of legs, and the like. The same might be 
said of mammals generally, except those which have an Arctic 
range or live on high levels where snow lies for lengthy periods, 
since, against the backgrounds of foliage, rock or sand which make 
up the environment of the great majority of mammals, a white 
coat would make its wearer undesirably conspicuous. It was 
therefore a matter of much interest when, recently, among several 
monkeys sent to the Park from West Africa, one was found 
to be completely white. It is difficult to determine its species, 
but it is certainly a member of the genus Cercopithecus. Its 
size is about that of a halfgrown Vervet or Green Monkey. 
The general colour of the hair is creamy white and the eyes are 
of a pale bluish shade. In certain lights the top of the head 
and back show a suggestion of a pale reddish tinge, which inclined 
one at first to suspect that it might be a Patas Monkey, but it 
scarcely shows the length of limb characteristic of that species. It 
is, almost beyond doubt, a partial albino, but Mr Kenneth 
Burbridge, who obtained and presented it to the Park, informed 
the writer that the natives declared that similar monkeys are not 
uncommon in the district in which it was taken, and Mr Burbridge 
hopes, when he returns home again next year, to bring further 
specimens. Though white individuals of the Mangabeys have been 
known, the writer has not, so far, been able to trace any record of 
a white Cercopithecus. 
THe New Porar Bear.—The acquisition by the Zoological 
Park of a young female Polar Bear is the first step in an attempt 
to see whether the polar bear can be bred and reared at 
Corstorphine. Polar bears, when caught wild and imported, 
usually thrive in this country even though they may have been 
