ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



A REKRACTORV BUT FAITHKUL MODEL 

 Miss Shoniiiird has completed a very lifelike portrait bust of our gorilla. A copy in bronze has been purchased by the Society. 



nicnt. ,nid we Iio])e that she may once again at- 

 tain lier former state of good liealth. Her diet 

 is carefully studied and she is most of the day 

 in a sunny cage playing with a small bull ter- 

 rier. Dinah is very fond of this little dog and 

 is vigorously demonstrative if it strays away 

 from her. 



A New Orang. — We have been fortunate dur- 

 ing the stringency of the European animal mar- 

 ket caused by the war, to obtain a very well- 

 developed and healthy young male orang-utan. 

 Tliis animal is about two years old and of the 

 dark-faced phase, which type of orang has been 

 found to best survive in captivity. Dr. Horn- 

 aday has named the new arrival Datu. which is 

 the name of the leader of a tribe in Borneo. 

 Datu is of a different disposition from the little 

 orang which has been in the Park for some 

 months. He is confiding and not at all stub- 

 born. The collection of anthropoids now con- 

 tains a gorilla, one chimpanzee, two orangs and 

 three species of gibbon. 



Burmese Ape. — It has been eight years since 

 a specimen of the Burmese ape has been on 

 exhibition at the Park and previous to the arriv- 

 al of this exceptionally fine example of the spe- 

 cies that we have just received, we liave had but 

 two small animals of the kind. Our new repre- 



sentative of the Burmese ape is a very powerful 

 animal with short, muscular arms, thick set neck 

 and clad in rather woolly, brown hair. While 

 Pete looks morose and formidable, he is in ev- 

 ery way friendly, which is a condition not com- 

 mon among adult specimens of the larger ma- 

 caques. 



Hare Small Mammals. — We have noted that 

 tlie arrival of one rare animal brings another. 

 As an example of this we remember a past ex- 

 ])erience, when we hoped to obtain a specimen 

 of a mongoose, for which we had been waiting 

 several years. A circus happened to dispose 

 of its stock and from this source a mongoose 

 was sent to the Park. A few days later a pair 

 was presented by a gentleman returning from 

 India, and almost immediately after three addi- 

 tional specimens came from an entirely different 

 source. This also hajipened with cobras which 

 we had sought for two years' time. Within 

 thirty days one was purchased from a dealer, 

 two were presented by a sailor and two were 

 sliipped in from a scientific expedition. This 

 interesting condition of unexpected appearances 

 of rare animals was repeated a few weeks ago. 

 The Collins-Day South American Expedition 

 presented to the Society three sisecimens of the 



