ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



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The breeding of the curassows is of particu- 

 lar interest, because of the possibility of the do- 

 mestication of the species. It is a strange fact 

 that while curassows become very tame in cap- 

 tivity, it is seldom that they can be induced to 

 breed. Mrs. Thompson's birds laid in 1913, 

 using an artificial nest of sticks, built by Mr. 

 Watts, and placed on the ground. After the 

 two white eggs had been deposited, the male re- 

 fused to allow his mate to incubate, so the 

 clutch was removed and entrusted to a domestic 

 hen. After twenty-nine days, one egg hatched, 

 the other proving infertile. The voung bird 

 was reared without difficulty, being fed much as 

 young pheasants are. 



Mr. Rockefeller's canvasbacks, three in num- 

 ber, are the progeny of birds hand-reared in 

 Manitoba. The eggs were incubated and the 

 ducklings reared by a domestic hen, as is cus- 

 tomary with wild ducks in captivity. 



Following is the list: 



Bred by 

 Strdthioniformes 

 South African Os- 

 trich Struthio australis Several 



North African Os- 

 trich Struthio camelus Several 



Casuabiifohmes 



Emu Dromiceius novaehollandiae Zoo. Park 



TiNAMIFOHMES 



Rufous Tinamou . . . Rhynchotus rufescens Rockefeller 



Galliformes 



Globose Curassow . . Crax globicera Thompson 



Temminck Tragopan Tragopan temmincki ■ Warner 



Siamese Fireback 



Pheasant Diardigallus diardi Warner 



Black-breasted 



Kalij Pheasant. . . Gennaeus horsfieldi Kuser 



Formosan Pheasant. Phasianus formosanus Zoo. Park 



Prince of Wales 



Pheasant Phasianus principalis Worthington 



Mongolian Pheasant . Phasiajius mongolieus Worthington 



Elliot Pheasant .... C'alophasis ellioii Kuser 



Common Peacock 



Pheasant Polyplectron chenguis Kuser 



Curacao Crested 



Quail Eupsychortyx crisiatus Zoo. Park 



Colombia Crested 



Quail Eupsychortyx leucopogon Kuser 



Scaled Quail Callipepla sguamata Zoo. Park 



COLUMBIFORMES 



Picazuro Pigeon .... Columba pieazuro Zoo. Park 



Cape Dove Oena capensis Noack 



Nicobar Pigeon .... Caloenas nicoharica Noack 



Red-Billed Pigeon . . Columba flavirostris Painter 



Bleeding-Hear t 



Pigeon Phlogoenas luzonica Rockefeller 



Ralliformes 



Pectoral Rail Hypotaenidia philippinensis 



australis Zoo. Park 



Sphenisciformes 

 Black-Footed Pen- 

 guin Sphensicus demersus Zoo. Park 



Lariformes 



Laughing Gull Larus atricilla Zoo. Park 



Grdiformes 



Paradise Crane Tetrapteryx paradisea Mackensen 



Japanese White- 

 Necked Crane. . . . Pseudogeranus leucauchen Zoo. Park 



Ardeiformes 



Snowy Egret Egretta candidissima Mcllhenny 



Anseriformes 



Cereopsis Goose. . . . Cereopsis novaehollandiae Zoo. Park 



Egyptian Goose. . . .Alopochen aegyptiacus Kuser 



Canvasback Duck. .Marila vallisneria Rockefeller 



White-Eyed Duck. .Marila nyroca Zoo. Park 



Pelecaniformes 



Brown Pelican Pelicanus occidentalis Zoo. Park 



Bred by 



Passeriformes 



Turdidae 

 European Blackbird. Turdus merula Kuser 



Artamidae 

 White-Browed Wood 



Swallow Artamus superciliaris Painter 



Fringillidae 



Melodious Grassquit. rian's canora Ibbeken 



Yellow-Faced Grass- 

 quit T. olivacea olivacea Ibbeken 



European Goldfinch. Carduelis carduelis Campini 



Mexican House 



Finch Carpodacus mexicanus mex- 



canus Zoo . Park 



Ploceidae 



Strawberry Finch. . .Sporaeginthus amandava Cine. Zool. Gard. 



Long-Tailed Grass 



Finch Poephila acuticauda Ibbeken 



Sturnidae 

 Black-Headed "^lyna.Termenuchus pogadarum Ibbeken 



Corvidae 

 Blue Jaj' Cyanocitta cristata Cine. Zool. Gard. 



The full names and addresses of the authorities cited above are as 

 follows: 



Cincinnati Zoological Gardens S. A. Stephan, Gen. Manager 



Campini, C 153 East 33rd St., New York 



Ibbeken, A. G 27 West 124th St., New York 



Kuser, Colonel Anthony R Bernardsville, N. J. 



Mackensen, Wm. J Yardley, Pa. 



Mcllhenny, E. A Avery Island, La. 



New York Zoological Park Dr. William T. Hornaday, Director 



Noack, Harry R Oakland, Cal. 



Painter, Kenyon V Cleveland, Ohio 



Rockefeller, William Tarrytown, N. Y. 



(Arthur M. Barnes in charge) 



Thompson, Mrs. Frederick Ferris Canandaigua, N. Y. 



(E. A. Watts in charge) 



Warner, Percy Nashville, Tenn. 



(Clare Lovett in charge) 

 Whitman, Prof. C. O.* 



Worthington, C. C Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pa. 



(John McCarthy in charge) 



* Deceased. 



CELTIC AND NORSE HORSES 



New Accessions to the Equidse Collection. 

 By S. H. Chubb. 



ONE of the greatest sources of satisfaction 

 to the Zoological Society and the staff of 

 the Zoological Park is the superb col- 

 lection of Equidoe, numbering nineteen individ- 

 uals and representing no less than eight differ- 

 ent species. 



Seven zebras, including four distinct species, 

 make this the best collection in the country of 

 that wonderfully decorated equine. 



The Przewalsky wild horse is represented by 

 a thriving little herd of six* While all of these 

 are of Mongolian extraction, four of the family 

 may boast of being Park-born. 



The Przewalsky, while not greatly admired 

 by breeders of fancy stock, is of zoological im- 

 portance as being the only true wild horse now 

 loiown. The so-called wild horses of the 

 prairies, so abundant a few years ago, became 

 M'ild only after escaping from domestic herds. 



To the Park collection, there has been added 

 recently two interesting horses, the Celtic horse, 

 (Equus cahallus celticus) from Iceland, and the 



*Since writing this article two have been sold. 



