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lector wlio captured tliese rattlesnakes informs 

 us that his troubles were many in transporting 

 a large bag containing these heavy reptiles to a 

 wagon, some six miles distant. Placed in a cage 

 of the Reptile House, the big snakes rattled 

 almost incessantly for several days, and the sin- 

 ister buzz attracted many visitors to their cage. 

 .Several of these snakes are over six feet long 

 and have a head as broad as the top of a man's 

 hand. 



New Arrivals: A valuable consignment of 

 animals has arrived from Carl Hagenbeck at 

 Hamburg. This consisted of a male Nubian 

 giraffe, eleven feet, seven and a quarter inches 

 in height, a pair of yaks, one Lelwel harte- 

 beest, two snow leopards and one tree kanga- 

 roo. All of these animals are in splendid con- 

 dition. The yaks, hartebeest and tree kanga- 

 roo represent species new to the collection. 



Animals in School: The New York Zoo- 

 logical Societv has recently donated a series of 



mammals and birds to the W.ishington Irving 

 High .School. In this magnificent school build- 

 ing, one of the largest in New York, a room 

 has been provided with large and attractive 

 cages for the exhibition of a representative se- 

 ries of mammals, birds, reptiles and fisli. 

 Classes are admitted at various times of the 

 day, and it has been explained that some of the 

 children visiting this zoological collection have 

 for the first time seen wild animals of any kind. 

 Miss I.illi;in .Sage is in charge of the collection 

 and explains that in this room the children will 

 receive the elementary instruction which will 

 fit them for later and more serious study at the 

 .\merican Museum of Natural History and the 

 Zoological Park. 



Hibernatinf/ Rodents: The erratic tenden- 

 cies of the dormice and spermophiles to hiber- 

 nate have puzzled the keepers of the Small 

 Mammal House. On one occasion six dormice 

 were reported dead and the specimens brought 



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