318 The American Naturalist. [Mareh, 
New York, Feb. 3.—A broad smile illumined the folio face of 
Caliph, the hippopotamus at the Zoo this afternoon. In the tank 
adjoining his a baby had arrived at exactly 12.15 P. M., and Miss 
Murphy, his mate, was its happy mother. Director Smith and his 
keepers knew Tuesday that something was in the air, for Miss Murphy 
was restless and excited. She is a nervous animal at all times, but 
Thursday she paced her cage all day, and Thursday night did not lie 
down once. The warning came just in,time, and a thick straw bedding 
was given her, and the partition separating her from Fatima was put 
up. The latter has the empty tank and the mother has the landing. 
After the youngster came, Mr. Smith said the first thing it did was 
to walk about shaking its tiny ears and giving little grunts. Murphy 
followed wherever it went, and would, allow no one to approach within — 
the railing, and so he didn’t attempt it. Caliph meanwhile found a 
peek-hole in the boards, and viewed his progeny with a great deal of 
interest. He refused to go into his tank, and last night slept within 
touch of the mother and baby. i 
The baby weighs about thirty pounds, being very small. Its color 
is pink—a salmon hue—and its legs are so short as to be almost imper- 
ceptible at first sight. It is lively and runs about a great deal, much 
to the mother’s discomfort. It is a peculiarly shaped animal. It % 
might be said that it has no shape at all. Itis about eighteen inches 
long, has no tail, ears that can hardly be seen and mouth no larger 
than a pint cup. The mother guards it with a great deal of care. It 
is her third born. Four years ago one was born which weighed sixty- — 
‘three pounds. It died. Fatima came next, having been born October 
4, 1890. Murphy is 8 years old and cost $5000. She weighs between — 
3000 and 4000 pounds. Caliph was brought from the Cincinnati Zoo — 
and cost $5000. He weighs 7000 pounds. To-night Murphy and her — 
baby were doing nicely.—Late paper. - 
Table of Contents of the North American Review for 
February, 1893.—How to Revise the Tariff, by the Hon. Wm. M. — 
Springer, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee; Recollections 
of the Panama Canal Congress, Rear-Admiral Ammen, U. S. N.; 
Changes in the Church of England, The Dean of St. Paul’s; Criminal 
Law in France, Madame Adam; Boons and Banes of Free Coinage, 
I. “In the Interest of Shylock, ” by the Hon. R. P. Bland, Chairman 
of the Committee on Free Coinage, Etc., II. A Warning to Savings 
Bank Depositors, by John Harsen Rhoades, President of the oa 
