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40. On the 19tli,two specimens of the Mexican cardinal 
{Cardinalis viTgmianus coccineus), from the same locality. 
41. On the 23d of January another interesting addition 
was made to the collection of lemurs in a specimen of the 
beautiful Javan loris {Nydicebus javanicus), received by 
purchase. 
42. On the same day a specimen of the Madagascar boa 
[Pelophilus madagascariensis) from the island of that name. 
43. A courlan (Aramus giganteMs), from South America, 
was purchased in February. This bird, closely related to 
the Rallidse, has not previously been exhibited in the 
Garden. 
44. On the 20th of February a European green wood- 
pecker {Gecinus viridis), was added by purchase. 
Among other additions which are not frequently received 
by us, were a wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax), from 
Australia; a number of thirteen-striped spermophiles {S. 
tridecim-lineatus), presented by Mr. J. W. W'orrall, Pratt, 
Kansas; a female Burchell's zehm {Equus bur cJielli), ohout 
a year old, purchased to mate the young male procured the 
year previously, and a pair of young axis deer (Cervus 
axis). Two young prairie wolves or coyotes {Canis latrans), 
received in August from Nebraska, are of interest from the 
fact that one of them is almost entirely black, the other 
being somewhat less so, this condition of melanism appear- 
ing to be less common in this species than in the other 
Am-erican form (C liijnis occidentalis). 
On Christmas da}^ Mr. Adam Forepaugh, proj)rietor of 
the circus and menagerie bearing his name, presented to 
the Society the male elephant " Bolivar." This splendid 
animal came originally from Ceylon, is now about thirty 
years old, stands nearly ten feet in height at the shoulder, 
and weighs nearly ten thousand pounds. It may w^ell be 
doubted if a finer specimen of his race has ever been in- 
cluded in a zoological collection. As the two females 
previously owned by the Society have also reached a large 
size, this addition made it necessary to enlarge the en- 
closure. This was done without the removal of the animals, 
the present pen being half again the size of the old one. 
