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rows. Not content with one call, Jerry repeat- 

 ed his visit several times and on each occasion 

 dropped his "eggs." More than a hundred 

 bombs fell, but in the morning the birds were 

 still there. The concussions were so great that 



fifty yards away a man could scarce stand 

 against them, and they fell close. Yet daylight 

 found starling and sparrow squabbling as heart- 

 ily and undisturbed as if they were in the 

 streets of New York City. 



Photo, by Elwin R. Sanbi 



INDIAN CORBA 

 xhibition in the Reptile Hon* 



than twelve years. 



OUR OLDEST SPECIMENS 



Some of the Aged Members That Still Are Living in the Pari;. 



By Raymond L. Ditmars, 

 Curator of Reptiles. 



York Zoological Society on October 11. 1899. 

 This animal was about three years old upon 

 arrival at the Park, and thus records the ripe 

 old age of twenty-two years for the American 

 wapiti. One of the bears arrived as a tiny 



THE Park's veteran mammals are an elk 

 and two bears that have been on exhibi- 

 tion since the formal opening to the pub- 

 lic on November S, 1899. The former is the 

 sole survivor of a herd presented to the New 



