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arriv-ed in safety, and has proved to be a most attractive 
resident. 
An attempt to imitate one of Nature's most remarkable 
associations, by domesticating some Burrowing Owls in the 
Prairie Dog enclosure, failed signally, a terrific contest hav- 
ing been the result. It was therefore abandoned, and the 
Owls given quarters by themselves. 
A valuable addition was made on Nov. 1st, consisting of 
a Malayan or Saddle-backed Tapir, from the jungles of 
Southern Asia ; two small Indian Elephants, a male and 
female, respectively three and four years old ; a female 
Black Leopard, to mate the one previously owned by the 
Society, and a beautiful specimen of the African Oryx An- 
telope. In December, a pair of young Polar Bears arrived 
from Hamburg, and were transferred to temporary quarters 
in the Garden, where they were shortly followed by a half- 
grown pair of Moose, from Nova Scotia, which are doing 
finely, and promise well for future developement. 
During the summicr an attempt was made for the third 
time to keep a living specimen of the Manatee or Sea 
Cow [Manatus aumicamis). 
A nearly grown female w^as procured in the Orinoco 
River, and arrived from Demerara on the fifteenth of June, 
apparently in good condition. Everything was in readi- 
ness for its reception — a spacious tank, water of an even 
and suitable temperature, well aerated and supplied with an 
excellent imitation of marine salt, in sufficient quantity to 
keep it brackish. It was fed on such river grasses as were 
to be procured, which seemed to be suited to its tastes, prin- 
cipally the Vallisneria spiralis^ and several of the Potauio- 
gettoris, the last of which is closely allied to those plants 
which probably supplied its necessities in its native haunts. 
Notwithstanding these favorable circumstances, the ani- 
mal steadily lost condition, and finally died on September 
5th — two months and twenty-one days after its arrival. It is 
probable, owing to the impossibility of providing (in con- 
finement and in this region) for the peculiar wants of this 
species, that any further attempt towards its domestication 
in the Garden would be unsuccessful. 
The species which have bred in the Garden are somewhat 
limited in number, owing, in my opinion, to the fact that 
the present unfinished state of the grounds requires many 
of them to be kept for the time in cages not adapted in all 
