50 POPULAR OFFICIAL GUIDE. 



The Wild Swine of the world are here represented by three 

 noteworthy species : 



The Red River-Hog, {Potamochacrus pencillatus), of "West 

 Africa, is about the only handsome species of swine that 

 Nature has produced. In form it is compact and well-turned, 

 its long pencil-tipped ears are of pleasing pattern, and its 

 hair is a rich auburn color, and the temper of our specimen 

 is everything that could be desired. Beside it is shown 

 "Clarence," the East African Wart-Hog, (Phacochaerus 

 aethiopicus), who is equally interesting, but in a different 

 way. This species is very weird in form. The Collared 

 Peccary, (Tagassu angulatum) , beside it is more like the wild 

 swine of Europe and Japan, and is not nearly so dangerous 

 as general reputation demands. 



The Kangaroos. — Seldom is there found in Nature a group 

 of large-animal species whose members are so monotonously 

 similar in general appearance as are the Kangaroos and 

 "Wallabies, of Australia. The great majority are either gray 

 or gray-brown, and the only striking variation is found in 

 the big Red Kangaroo, (Macropus rufus). 



THE WHITE MOUNTAIN GOAT, No. 48. 



Fortunate indeed is the zoological park or garden which 

 can exhibit even one living specimen of the "White Moun- 

 tain Goat. It is a very difficult matter to take an animal 

 from a rarified dry atmosphere, at an elevation of 8,000 

 feet, and induce it to live at sea level, in a dense and humid 

 atmosphere, on food to which it is by nature wholly un- 

 accustomed. 



"We have been successful in establishing here, on a breed- 

 ing basis this rare and difficult animal, (Oreamnos mon- 

 tanus). One kid was born in 1908 and another in 1910, and 

 both have thriven, the former now being so large as to look 

 like an adult specimen. 



For some subtle reason which we can not explain, these 

 animals — like the chamois and mouflon quartered in small 

 pens near the Small-Mammal House — do not thrive in any 

 of the large, rock-bound corrals of Mountain Sheep Hill. 

 They are kept in a rock-paved corral near the Pheasant 

 Aviary and the Crotona Entrance, and to their use has been 

 devoted a rustic barn, which they shelter in or climb over, 

 according to the weather. To see them walking nonchalant- 



