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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



SEA HORSES IN THE NEW YORK AQUARIUM 



City. A small unbrand- 

 ed bunch was roped at 

 Gravesend Bay. 



The Aquarium stock- 

 man is now getting in 

 forage from the beaches, 

 for the sea horse won't 

 eat anything he doesn't 

 like. Just ai this season 

 it is not difficult to sup- 

 ply fresh food, but when 

 winter sets in the forage 

 question gets serious. 

 Along toward Spring- 

 when it is actually 

 scarce, the sea horses 

 begin to show their ribs 

 and some of them don't 

 pull through the winter 

 when beaches are bare. 



For th^ benefit of 

 those unacquainted with 

 the breed, it may be 

 stated that it is known 

 as Hippocampus. It 

 loves to browse among 

 sea weed. It has a tail 

 that can be used like 

 that of a monkey but 

 it is always recogniz- 

 able by its horse-like 

 head. 



This is all the informa- 

 tion regarding the sea 

 horse that will be given 

 out at present, but the 

 public will be admitted 

 without charge and the 

 stockmen are ready to 

 answer questions. 



Fishes in Central Park. — The following 

 species of fishes have been found by the 

 Aquarium collector to be abundant in the 

 lakes of Central Park: goldfish, carp, common 

 roach, pearl roach, yellow perch, sunfish, 

 catfish and fresh-water killifish. 



A FINE HERD OF SEA HORSES 



THIS has been a good season for sea horses 

 on the marine ranges and the Aquarium 

 has three hundred of them rounded up 

 in the corral at the Battery. 



The most of them came from Long Island, 

 Sandy Hook and the neighborhood of Atlantic 



THE NEW MODEL 



The attention of members of the Zoological 

 Society is called to a beautiful model now on 

 exhibition at the Museum of Natural History 

 which bears the following inscription: 



MODEL OF THE PROPOSED ENLARGEMENT OF 



THE NEW YORK AQUARIUM 



PREPARED IN 1912 UNDER THE DIRECTION 

 OF THE 



NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 

 By J Stewart Barney Architect 



