ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 97 
MANCHURIAN CRANE 
A model for an artist. 
oso-hucumari or spectacled bear (T'remarctos ) 
of the Peruvian Andes, the only South American 
representative of the bear family. 
As will be seen from the list, there was a 
relative paucity of small mammals in the park. 
Nor were any reptiles noted, with the exception 
of the giant Galapagos tortoises referred to 
above. The latter were among the few crea- 
FEMALE ANDEAN CONDOR 
On the wing may be seen several flies that live parasitically among the feathers. 
tures which seemed to find the 
climate unfavorable. 
Although Lima is rather close 
to the Equator (12° S.), and is 
situated in the heart of a 
coastal desert, its type of 
weather is tempered by the 
cold ocean current of the west 
coast of South America, and 
during the southern winter it is 
subject to prolonged periods of 
cool, misty precipitation known 
as garua. While the air is 
doubtless never cold enough to 
warrant the construction of 
ANDEAN CONDORS 
Flying over Asia Island, Coast of Central Peru. 
artificially heated compart- 
ments, the temperature is, 
nevertheless, often too low for 
the well-being of the tortoises 
out-of-doors. On days when 
the garua was falling, I often 
saw the poor brutes completely 
benumbered, and some time be- 
fore my last visit several of 
them died. 
Regulations against feeding 
the animals, which seem to be 
so necessary in zoological gar- 
