ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



121-3 



A STRKKT IN PARA 



Snii OK BATES' CAMr, I'ARA 



mentioned the Harpy eagle, hyacintliine macaw, 

 hawk-headed parrot, spectacled owls, southern 

 boat-billed heron and pileated herons. 



The rarest is unquestionably the two-banded 

 giant cacique {Gt/miiosfinops bifasciatus), a 

 large maroon-bodied, yellow-tailed oriole, of 

 which only three skins exist in museum collec- 

 tions. It is a young bird, always clamouring to 

 be fed, altiiough quite capable of feeding itself. 

 Equally rare in captivity are the tiny whisper- 

 ing ibises (Phimosus inftiscatiis) looking like 

 half-grown glossy ibises with disproportionately 

 short legs. 



The specimens most valued by the writer on 

 account of their scientific interest are three spe- 

 cies of trumpeters, two of them new to us, the 

 white-winged (PsopJiia leiicuptera). the green- 

 winged (Psophia viridis) and the dusky (Pso- 

 phia ohsciira), bringing our species of these 

 little-known birds up to four. 



The excellent conditioa of the collection is 

 shown by the fact that of the sixty-odd speci- 

 mens of birds, after several weeks of acclimati- 



zation in the Zoological Park, only one has suc- 

 cumbed, and that through accident. 



THE SOUTH AMERICAN COLLECTION. 



By Raymond L. Uitmars. 



Curator of Reptiles. 



IN a previous issue of the Bulletin, we ex- 

 plained the ])ractical elimination of the Old 

 World animal market by the war in Europe. 

 It was noted at the time that South America 

 would be a field of exploration for wild animals 

 the present summer, and such has been the case. 

 While there is a vast diiference between the at- 

 tractiveness of the tropical American fauna and 

 the animal wonderland of Asia, the- ^lalayan 

 islands. Africa and Australia, there is neverthe- 

 less an immense field of interest in the former. 

 Though the only large mammals are the tapir, 

 tlie cameloids, the jaguar, puma and a few deer, 

 there is an elaborate aggregation of small and 

 medium-sized species and many of these are lit- 



>ri( \l, ILNGLE NEAR PARA 



I)K. SXI-.THLAGE 

 Director of tlu- Muscuiii :\m\ Zoological Gardens, Pa 



