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HAMLYN'S MENAGERIE MAGAZINE. 
only too pleased toi co-operate with any Dealer or 
Dealers to take this matter upi, with a view to 
the prohibition being removed from one of the 
oldest trades in the world. Even the Romans were 
enthusiastic traders and collectors of Animals, 
Birds, Reptiles and Fishes. 
JOHN D. HAMLYN. 
My Porcupine Farm in North Waterford, 
Minnesota, Maine, U.S.A. 
By Linwood Flint. 
Come out and see me feed the porcupines, 
some are very tame, walking on their hind feet 
for apples, etc. If you cannot spend the time to 
visit, let me tell you something of these curious 
animals that have been my companions for over 
12 years. 
How the writer came to be interested in 
starting the only farm of its kind in America {an^ 
perhaps, the world), and making it a success-, 
would not 1 be of interest, but some of their ways 
would amuse any lover of animal life. 
The baby porcupine is usually born in May, 
and is covered with fine bluish hair and is very 
pretty. Sometimes there is a new arrival in the 
large cages, containing quite a number of strange 
animals, but no adult porcupine would harm the 
little babe. The writer has seen a male take the 
little one in its forepaws and walk on hind feet 
about the cage apparently to the enjoyment of 
both. 
A porcupine's disposition is different than 
most animals (including the human family). When 
eating there is no quarreling even among stran- 
gers, allowing two to take a bite from the same 
apple. 
They are easily tamed soon as they find one 
is friendly; they newer attack, and when attacked 
defend themselves with quills, striking a powerful 
blow with their tail which is their weapon of 
defence. 
Unlike most animals when chattering their 
teeth it is because they want to be friendly; a 
person making a noise similar with their teeth 
will note the quills lower at once and soon will 
be in repose, when it is nice to offer them food. 
They seldom bite but depend on their quills (which 
is a sure guide telling how tame they have be- 
come). 
It was the writer's good fortune to see a 
group of tame baby porcupines at play, and a 
jolly time they were having — running about with 
quills erect striking at some imaginary foe, run- 
ning backward, spinning like a top, each one 
trying to- outdo the other in feats of spinning and 
running about. I wish you could have seen them. 
On this farm of 160 acres is a colony that has 
not been disturbed for many years. In fact we 
feel safe in saying they were there even before 
the first white settlers. It is a rocky bluff, and 
they make their homes among the rocks, living 
together in harmony, feeding on the barks and 
leaves of hemlock, etc. , during the severe winter 
which has no terrors for them, as their paths 
through the snow, even when zero weather, plainly 
show. If it were possible to move 1 ^ acre of these 
rocky crags to some zoo in a large city, it would 
be of great interest. 
The demand for these grotesque animals for 
zoos, private collections, and travelling shows, 
has been very good, and they are shipped success- 
fully to dealers in foreign countries, who find the 
demand growing as people learn how interesting 
a study they are to all lovers of animal life. 
JAMRACH'S MANGABEY. 
From the Annals and Magazine of Natural 
History, Ser. 7, Vol. xviiu, December, 1906. 
Description of a Second new Species of Mangabey 
(Cercocebus Jamrachi). By R. I. Pocock, F.L.S., 
F.Z.S., Superintendent of the Zoological Society's 
Gardens. 
The young male monkey upon which this 
new species is based was deposited in the Zoo- 
logical Gardens by Mr. Rothschild, who has 
placed its determination and description in my 
hands. I propose to name it after Mr. Albert E, 
Jamrach, the well-known importer of wild ani- 
mals, who procured the specimen. 
CERCOCEBUS JAMRACHI ,sp. n. 
The face, ears, palms of the hands, and soles 
of the feet flesh-coloured, the face much more 
pallid than the hands and feet, which are of a 
decided rosy pink; one or two small asymmetrically 
disposed pigment-spots on the face and ears. The 
iris of the eyec olive-brown; the white of the eye 
with a faint grey-blue tinge. The hair everywhere 
a uniform dirty white. On the posterior portion 
of the crown of the head the hair is thick and long, 
forming an occipito-parietal tuft as in C. Hamlyni; 
it is also long behind the ears, but on the cheeks 
it is quite short and sparse., whereas on the brow 
