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year 7 parrots of various species, 2 boa constrictors, a lion, and a 

 kinkajou. Eight alligators were carried over the winter for the 

 Pan American Union. 



REMOVALS. 



Surplus mammals and birds to the number of 37 were exchanged 

 to other zoological collections, as follows : One European brown bear, 

 1 hippopotamus, 2 red kangaroos, 1 yak, 3 Indian antelopes, 1 fallow 

 deer, 2 hog deer, 1 Japanese deer, 4 barasingha deer, 4 European red 

 deer, 6 gray squirrels, 2 domestic geese, and 9 peafowl. A number 

 of specimens on deposit were returned to owners. 



While the death rate for the year has been comparatively small, 

 there have been as usual some serious losses, especially among animals 

 long in the park and of advanced age. The male Celebesian dwarf 

 buffalo, or anoa {Anoa depres.sicornis) , which has been a feature of 

 the antelope house for nearly 13 years, died on July 24, 1918. This 

 animal came to the collection December 12, 1905, then fully adult, 

 had been showing extreme age for the past two years, and his death 

 was not unexpected. Two female Congo harnessed antelopes {Tra- 

 gelaphus gratus) were lost. One was purchased as a fully grown 

 animal October 31, 1907, and died May 10, 1919. The other, born in 

 the park July 4, 1912, died February 27, 1919. An old female Ameri- 

 can bison, purchased May 6, 1907, died of septic metritis on April 20, 

 1919. A female guanaco, received from the zoological gardens in 

 Buenos Aires, December 29, 1904, died on August 22, 1918, of acute 

 congestion of the lungs, after 13 years and 8 months of life in the 

 park. An alpaca, also from the Buenos Aires gardens, received 

 March 14, 1908, died from old age and parasitic invasion, October 11, 

 1918. A wild cat {Lynx ruffus)^ received September 3, 1907, died 

 January 22, 1919; and a Canada lynx, received September 25, 1907, 

 died from septicemia September 25, 1918, exactly 11 years from the 

 date of its arrival in the zoo. Other losses of importance among the 

 mammals were a leopard, from pneumonia, November 18, 1918, and 

 a young Brazilian tapir, born in the park February 22, 1918, which 

 died under anesthetic during an operation for prolapse of the rectum 

 on June 3, 1919. 



The most serious loss by death among the birds was a female 

 trumpeter swan, which died of septicemia May 14, 1919, just after 

 it had been successfully mated, after two years of effort, with the 

 male trumpeter lent to the park by Judge R. M, Barnes, of Lacon, 

 111. The eggs in the ovary were enlarged to the size of cherries, and 

 there is every reason to believe that but for the untimely loss of this 

 bird the swans would have been successfully bred. The African 

 crowned hawk-eagle {Sjjizaetus coronatus) received from James 

 Robert Spurgeon, United States Secretary of Legation, Monrovia, 



