NOTES FROM THE SCOTTISH ZOOLOGICAL PARK 95 
NOTES FROM 
THE SCOTTISH ZOOLOGICAL PARK 
ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTION.—One of the most interesting 
of recent arrivals at the Park is a Humboldt’s Woolly Monkey. It 
is the first of its type to be exhibited in the Park, and as it is 
exceptionally tame and gentle and very playful, it has quickly gained 
great popularity with visitors, somewhat to the annoyance of its 
neighbours in adjoining cages, for popularity in such a case is no 
empty honour but implies increase in contributions of bananas and 
other luxuries. This monkey has at command a considerable 
variety of amusing tricks and antics, and seems to be aware of the 
impression he creates upon his human visitors, and to enjoy their 
exclamations and laughter, and also to recognise the desirability 
of using his accomplishments to stimulate, when he thinks it 
necessary, the flow of tribute. Woolly Monkeys, so called from 
their thick coat of woolly fur, have most of the advantages without 
the corresponding disadvantages of the specialisation which their 
cousins the Spider Monkeys possess. They have the long pre- 
hensile tail, so strong that if the mere tip of it is rounda branch 
the animal can swing itself up by the tail alone, and so delicate in 
touch that quite small objects can be grasped with it, so that it 
forms practically a fifth limb. While their general build, in 
adaptation to an arboreal life, resembles that of the Spider 
Monkeys, in the Woolly Monkeys the specialisation is not so 
extreme, the body is not so attenuated nor are the limbs so 
disproportionately long, and in particular there is a well-developed 
thumb, whereas in the Spider Monkeys the thumb has been lost, 
and the very long fingers are little more than hooks. 
There arrived from India in April a group of Indian Antelopes 
(“Black Buck”), a welcome addition, as the Park is at present 
rather ill-stocked with antelopes. The group consists of four 
individuals, three females and a male; all are young and in good 
condition, and having passed through the required twenty-eight 
days of isolation, they are now on view. ‘The male is very young, 
and at present resembles the females, for the long spiral horns 
and dark saddle-like marking, characteristic of the male, are 
attained only with a fuller maturity. 
In the same consignment with the antelopes was a little group 
of fourteen Quails, representing three or four species. They have 
been placed in a large aviary in which they have abundant space 
and ample cover, and in which they may very likely breed. They 
