100 ZOOLOGICAL 
SOCIETY 
BULLETIN 
GREAT WHITE EGRET 
many tropical songsters, among which are most 
garrulous and irrepressible wrens, live in the 
hedges and in the thick foliage of the trees. 
Tiny house-swallows, called “Santa Rositas’’ in 
honor of Lima’s patron Saint, skim about all 
day within an inch or two of the paths, and 
vermilion fly-ecatchers occasionally can be seen 
clicking off insects in the higher spaces. At 
evening, barn owls perch along the roof of the 
Exposicion palace, and nighthawks sally forth 
into the Paseo Colon. ‘The most conspicuous of 
the wild birds are the black vultures or galli- 
nazos, which at all hours wheel in a definite cir- 
cle of the sky above the park, and which de- 
scend every morning to gobble up the offal in a 
slaughter-pen in which the food of the flesh- 
eating mammals and birds is prepared. 
All in all, the Lima park seems to be an in- 
The 
summer- 
stitution of genuinely popular purpose. 
has erected seats and 
houses throughout the grounds, and has planned 
management 
in all ways for the comfort of visitors. 
tent 
rich soil and favorable climate in working out 
Compe- 
gardeners have made the most of the 
the floral features, and in providing for irriga- 
tion. The park is kept scrupulously clean, and 
the Peruvian public neither litters it with rub- 
bish nor plasters the bottoms of the the benches 
with American chewing gum. On certain after- 
noons, military bands, made up almost entirely 
of the music-loving Peruvian Indians, render 
concerts in the park, which never fail to be well 
attended. Of other 
even to the ingratiating 
familiar 
“official 
photographs you in front of the elephant pen 
appurtenances, 
artist, who 
and prepares the pictures while you wait, there 
is no lack. 
Considering the climate of Lima, which agrees 
particularly well with captive birds, there would 
seem to be an opportunity for the authorities 
of the zoological park to draw upon the maryel- 
ous resources of the interior of Peru, especially 
of the Amazonian montana, and to develop at the 
capital a tropical aviary which would have no 
peer. * =. 
COMPLETE SUCCESS OF OUR AFRICAN 
VENTURE 
Mr. Haagner arrives with a large and valuable 
collection. 
ORTUNE helps those who help themselves. 
KF Looking ahead in 1916, it seemed reason- 
ably certain that for us a famine in wild 
animals was impending. That forecast proved 
to be correct. The enterprise we then set on 
foot has now culminated very greatly to our 
advantage. 
