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rasping through wood. This rises to an in- 

 fantile squawl when extremely irritated. It 

 shows no fear, but does not like being handled 

 or touched. When threatened it will strike out, 

 cat-like, with one paw, but never tries to bite. 



It took a few drops of cocoanut milk, and 

 chewed up the petal of a temple flower; but at 

 night it refused banana, a grasshopper, tender 

 bamboo and fern shoots and milk. Its constant 

 desire is to climb upward. It sleeps in the 

 regulation clinging position for several hours 

 in the afternoon, clinging to an oil-skin rain- 

 coat, but at dusk it becomes active and noisy. 



When put in a dark corner in a bird cage 

 on the verandah of the bungalow, the little 

 creature settles down quietly, but after half an 

 hour utters from time to time a low but pene- 

 trating call, hardly different from some of the 

 insect voices which All the air. 



In the early mornings I found the little crea- 

 ture in its sleeping posture, clinging with all 

 four feet to the roof of its cage; the feet close 

 together and the tail and head curled inward, 

 until the back formed almost a circle. 



It ate half a banana and licked some milk 

 from a finger-tip, but did not seem to relish 

 anything. After a few days it became weak 

 and I chloroformed it. Its measurements were 

 about half those of the adult female, and it 

 weighed a pound. 



In color the little lemur is very different 

 from the adult which I have described, being 

 in the rare rufous phase much like a young deer ; 

 a rich rufous ground with numerous spots 01 

 white. 



The Flying Lemur does not seem to thrive 

 in captivity, and I do not know of any which 

 have been successfully brought to Europe or 

 America. There are several species, which 

 range from Siam southward through the Malay 

 Peninsula to Sumatra, Java, Borneo and the 

 Philippines. 



Pygmy Hippopotami. — To the list of existing speci- 

 mens of the Pygmy Hippopotami, (H. liberienses), 

 now existing in American zoological parks and mu- 

 seums, there must be added a fine and perfect adult 

 skin and skeleton, from the Mauwa River, Liberia, 

 on exhibition in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 Cambridge, Mass. Both specimens were mouaited 

 by Rowland Ward, of London, and have been on ex- 

 hibition in the M. C. Z. for about three years. 



The three living specimens in the Zoological Park 

 continue to thrive. Their appetites may fairly be 

 described as robust, and the quantity of mixed vege- 

 table food that they consume promises long life and 

 good condition. The two immature specimens take 

 kindly to their attendants, but the adult male ex- 

 hibits am irascible and almost vicious temper. 



LUMPY-JAW IN BIG-HORN SHEEP. 



The news that lumpy-jaw exists among the 

 big-horn sheep (Ovis canadensis) of the Bitter 

 Root Mountains, Idaho, causes us grave concern. 

 It is the first time, so far as we are aware, that 

 our home species of mountain sheep has been 

 so attacked. In 1907 we discovered the pres- 

 ence of lumpy -jaw in specimens of the black 

 mountain sheep from the Sheslay Mountains, 

 Northern British Columbia, where, so we have 

 recently learned, it still exists. Four times have 

 prong-horned antelopes from our Rocky Moun- 

 tain states brought that dread scourge into the 

 Zoological Park, with fatal effect to the ante- 

 lopes. 



Lumpy-jaw, or actinomycosis, in wild ani- 

 mals appears to be incurable. In the antelope 

 the disease is generally fatal within about two 

 weeks after it reaches the critical stage. It is 

 fully described and illustrated in a paper by Dr. 

 W. Reid Blair, our veterinary surgeon, in the 

 Eleventh Annual Report of the New York Zoo- 

 logical Society, page 137. It is greatly to be 

 feared that lumpy-jaw is now so prevalent 

 among the bands of prong-horned antelope that 

 now constitute our remnant of that species, that 

 it will do much toward hastening the total ex- 

 tinction of the prong-horn that now seems to 

 be impending. 



We hope that some of our remnant bands of 

 mountain sheep will be saved by their isolation 

 from the Bitter Root outbreak, but there is no 

 reason to believe that any sheep in touch with 

 the Bitter Root mountains can escape destruc- 

 tion by the incurable scourge. 



W T. H. 



CARL HAGENBECK. 



The king of wild animal collectors is very ill. 



Carl Hagenbeck is in shattered health. For 

 several long and weary months he has been 

 confined to his wheeled chair, and his chief 

 solace has been the contemplation of the unique 

 and popular "zoological paradise" that his 

 genius has created at Stellingen, just outside 

 the boundary of Hamburg. 



Mr. Hagenbeck has enjoyed a wonderfully 

 interesting and picturesque career. The com- 

 pletion of his Stellingen wonderland, and 

 the publication of his autobiography, "Beasts 

 and Men," in 1910, fairly rounded out his life 

 work; and his success was finally crowned by 

 two visits from Emperor William of Germany. 

 His latest achievement was the construction of 

 a small zoological garden at Rome, designed 

 on the principles that have been wrought out so 

 successfully at Stellingen. 



