ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
National Collection of Heads and Horns. ‘Tis 
picture is to be part of the program for the 
coming annual meeting, and it is designed to 
show in a few minutes the entire construction 
of an imposing building. Eight second intervals 
will represent a week's progress in building. 
The scenes begin with the clearing of the forest, 
and terminate with the arrangement and_ the 
completed installation of the specimens upon the 
walls. 
Pictures for the Neat Annual Meeting.— 
There will be much of interest on the program 
of the 1922 annual meeting. Curator Beebe is 
now arranging his motion picture films pheto- 
graphed at the Zoological Society's tropical 
laboratory in South America. All of 
material was produced with the now famous 
Akeley camera. There will be views of the 
sloth in its native environment, the giant ant- 
eater, the leaf-cutting ant, tropical walking 
sticks and wonderful scenes of the impressive 
waterfalls at Kaieteur, that are five times the 
height of Niagara. The motion picture piio- 
tography from the Tropical Station is the work 
of Mr. John Tee-Van. 
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A New Pair of Anoas——For the first time in 
the history of the Park we are exhibiting a pair 
of anoas, or pygmy water buffalo of Celebes. 
In the past we have had two male specimens. 
The present pair arrived in San Francisco by 
way of Singapore, and encountered the usual 
rigid government inspection and quarantine. 
The writer was in San Francisco at the time 
these animals arrived, and suggested that he be 
permitted to take them East with him, thus 
transferring the quarantine to the port of New 
York. 
There were two specifications for quarantine— 
a thirty-day period from the port of embarka- 
tion, and fifteen days at the port of arrival. ‘The 
thirty-day period had expired during the voyage 
across the Pacific, but the latter period was a 
ground of sorrow. An immediate transfer to 
New York was declared impossible, and the 
writer came east without them, but bringing 
animals that could not be kept waiting in tem- 
porary quarters. Very fortunately Mr. Alex. 
Mitchell, of Oklahoma, and brother of our Mr. 
H. R. Mitchell, appeared in San Francisco most 
opportunely, at the time of the expiration of the 
final quarantine period. He successfully con- 
veyed the animals to Kansas City, and at 
Chicago they were met by Mr. William Mitchell, 
who brought them directly through by Erie 
Railroad. They arrived in quite as fine condi- 
tion as they were when they left Celebes, and 
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are safely quartered at the Small-Deer House, 
in charge of Keeper Riley. 
An Albino Rattler—The present star of the 
Reptile Collection is an albino rattlesnake, cap- 
tured on Black Rock Mountain, in the Berk- 
shires, Massachusetts. The writer observed this 
specimen, sunning itself at the base of a ledge, 
in August, 1920. He at first thought it was an 
alabaster or a marble paperweight left by some 
artist who had been sketching on the mountain. 
During a moment’s hesitation the rattler glided 
into a crevice and escaped. Later in the season 
we hunted him, and again last spring, but with- 
out success. Early this summer Mr. R. M. 
Smith, of Sheffield, Mass., an ally of the writer, 
returned to the ledge and found the specimen 
coiled near a shelving rock. He shoved 
out with a stick, and into a bag. This is our 
first record of an albino specimen of the timber 
or banded rattlesnake. The Park now has a 
number of interesting albinos. There are two 
albino woodchucks, an albino gray squirrel, a 
perfectly white Canadian porcupine, an albino 
crow and a fallow deer. 
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New Paintings of Animals.—Several impor- 
tant paintings have arrived to strengthen the 
already fine series of animal portraits at the 
Administration Building, in the Park. Among 
the recent additions is a life size oil painting 
by Carl Rungius of the North American puma, 
or mountain lion, at home among the crags 
of the Rockies. Another new and masterful oil 
painting, with the subjects life size, is by 
Louis Agassiz Fuertes. It shows nesting flamin- 
goes on Andros Island, in the Bahamas. Mr. 
Fuertes made two trips to Andros Island to 
make studies of the vast nesting grounds, and 
to watch the birds in the care of their young. 
His painting is spectacular in the brilliant red 
coloration of the birds, the vivid green of trop- 
ical foliage and a striking cloud effect often 
seen in the Bahamas. 
Attendance.—Despite surprises of the past 
year, when the Zoological Park records of 
attendance showed two and a quarter million 
visitors, the figures for the present year reveal 
even stronger proof of the steadily increasing 
popularity of the Park. 
Restoring the Frogs.—Through changes in 
drainage, the droughts of former years and other 
causes, the Park ponds were slowly depopulated 
of frogs, and the cheery note of the green trog, 
as well as the impressive bass voice of the bull- 
frog had altogether ceased. During the past 
fall and the spring of the present year, this void 
was filled. The writer and his assistants in the 
