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crates of animals, and that was enough for us to take care of. He 

 replied, "No, you have 43 crates, because I have already sent two 

 crates of ducks and black-necked swans to the boat for you." Mrs. 

 Shippen discovered three rare escuerzo frogs (Ceratophrys), that 

 were particularly desired, in a pet store in the shopping district of 

 Buenos Aires. Senor Ennio Arrigutti, of the Aquarium Kin Yu, 

 gave us a number of small interesting creatures that we wanted. 



When we arrived in Rio de Janeiro, more specimens were awaiting 

 us — snakes from the Instituto Butantan, tapirs and king vultures 

 from the zoo. and numerous other things from friends. There were 

 70 cages of animals in our collection when we arrived in New York, 

 and all of them came to Washington in good condition. On board 

 ship, the two ladies of our party devoted their mornings to caring for 

 a line of specimens assigned to them. Mr. Shippen acted as chief 

 water boy ; his first duty each morning was to remove water pans 

 from 60 cages, wash them, and put them back filled. The ship's 

 butcher and the second cook ground up meat and vegetables for us, 

 and the bos'n's mate and another sailor came to the rescue with much 

 hard labor during their hours off. 



We are under great obligation to the Moore McCormack Line for 

 marvelous quarters given us for the animals and for their complete 

 cooperation. The animals that required quarantine were taken care 

 of in New York by L. Ruhe and Company; and Howard Fyfe, 

 United States Despatch Agent, had already made the necessary 

 arrangements with the Express Company for the immediate ship- 

 ment to Washington of the other animals. 



All in all, the trip resulted in the addition of 316 specimens to the 

 National Zoological Park, all of them needed by the Zoo and some 

 of them never exhibited here before. 



Among the animals were guanacos and llamas, new blood for our 

 herds ; capybaras, pampas cats, a pair of Brazilian tapirs ; a pair of 

 Andean condors, upland geese, black-necked swans, coscoroba geese, 

 21 Chilean flamingos; and numerous reptiles, some from the Instituto 

 Butantan. 



