ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



PHOTOGRAPH 



This photograph was taken to sho 



GIRAFFE FEEDING FROM THE GROUND. 



<■ the difficulty the animal experiences in accomplishing its object, and the awkward positi 



and crappie. The fishes were transported in one of the 

 special cars of the United States Fisheries Bureau, without 

 expense to the Aquarium. 



The annual summer shipments from the Bermuda 

 Islands have been received, and include such brilliantly 

 colored tropical fishes as the blue parrot-fish, green parrot- 

 fish, queen trigger-fish, butterfly-fish, angel-fish, four-eyed 

 fish, mud parrot-fish, cowfish, trunk-fish, squirrel-fish, sur- 

 geon-fish, blue tang, trigger-fish, coney, hogfish, spotted 

 moray, tiger rockfish, lady-fish, sergeant major, red hind, 

 striped grunt, large grouper and Bermuda lobster. There 

 is one young jew-fish, w-eighing about thirty pounds — the 

 first of its kind received. This species is the largest of 

 food fishes, sometimes reaching a weight of four or five 

 hundred pounds. 



At the present time, the Aquarium contains probably a 

 greater number and variety of sy)ecies than at any other 

 time in its history, all exhibition space being fully occupied. 

 A considerable portion of the collection has overflowed into 

 the reserve tanks in the rear. So far as the present aqua- 



rium building is concerned, the collection has reached its 

 Umit. The Director reports that he could easily fill three 

 buildings like the present one, without duplication of spe- 

 cies, and without materially increasing the cost of collecting 

 specimens. 



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Accommodation for the increasing collection of turtles at 

 the Aquarium has been secured by placing eight aquarium 

 tanks, each three feet long, on the main floor near the cen- 

 tral pool. This arrangement gives a better view of the 

 smaller species of turtles than has hitherto been practicable. 

 A series of ten small aquaria have been located on the stone 

 coping of the large central pool, to accommodate the collec- 

 tion of crabs and other small Crustacea. 



Another exchange, just effected with the new ac:|Uarium 

 at Detroit, Michigan, has brought to the New York .Aqua- 

 rium about fifty fishes from Lake Erie. The most impor- 

 tant in this lot are the lake sturgeon, and the whitefish. 

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Five specimens of the Harbor Seal were procured from 

 Boothbay, Maine. C. H. T. 



