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Owing to the double fact that the amount of money avail- 
able for purchase of animals has been less than formerly, 
and that the supplies of animals brought to this country for 
sale have also been unusually small, the additions of inter- 
esting specimens to the Garden have hardly reached the 
limits of former years. Still, in connection with the com- 
paratively small number of deaths which have occurred, 
they have been sufficient to fully maintain the completeness 
of the collection, and among them were contained some 
specimens of great rarity. 
The following were exhibited for the first time in our 
Garden : 
1. The mitred monkey (Semnopithecus mitratus), a rare and 
interesting species from western Java. 
2. The black howler (Mycetes niger), from southern Brazil 
and Paraguay. 
3. Hairy-nosed wombat (Phascolomys latifrons). A pair of 
these animals, purchased in September, were a most welcome 
addition to the collection, as it had previously contained 
specimens of the two other species forming this group. They 
are among the most remarkable of the varied and strange 
marsupial forms and bear certain resemblances to the type 
of dentition characteristic of rodents. Externally, they are 
about the size and proportions of the common badger, whose 
mode of life they seem also to imitate, burrowing deeply 
into the ground for their habitations. Their chief food, 
however, is of a vegetable nature, though the pair in the 
Garden occasionally consume small quantities of meat. 
Like many members of the Australian fauna, these animals 
are rapidly disappearing before the advance of civilization, 
and the Society may be deemed fortunate in procuring the 
present specimens. 
4. The European, or Bohemian wax-wing (Ampelis gar- 
rulus), a bird very similar in appearance to the cedar-bird of 
our country, to which it is closely related. Though a resident 
of Europe, it not infrequently crosses the ocean to the 
northern parts of this continent — occasionally even appear- 
ing in large flocks. 
5. The common bunting (Emberiza miliaria), of Europe, a 
