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days later by a second, full-grown eyra. These cats, ranging 
from the Rio Grande region of Texas to Brazil, are rare in 
collections and have never previously been represented in 
our own. The arrival of these three specimens from inde- 
pendent sources within a few weeks was an interesting and 
fortunate incident. 
Somewhat later in the season the purchase of a fishing 
cat {Felis viverrina) and a Bengalese cat (Felis bengalensis)^ 
both of India, raised the number of species of the cat 
family on exhibition at the time to thirteen. 
On the 7th of April a young monkey was received from 
Mongnai, upper Burmah, which I have not satisfactorily 
identified, but which seems on the whole to resemble 
Macacus leoninus Blyth. 
A pair of young red deer (Cervus elaphus) were purchased 
in April from A. E. Jamrach, of London. This fine species, 
the European representative of our wapiti, has not before 
been represented in the garden. 
A pair of cereopsis geese {Cereopsis novse-hollandise), from 
Australia, were purchased in April. 
In the same month a lizard of unusal interest was re- 
ceived from Mr, Harold Hanauer, of London, to whose kind 
efforts the collection has owed many valuable specimens. 
This saurian {Sphenodon pundatus), found in New Zealand, 
is undoubtedly the oldest existing reptile, the group to 
which it belongs, being apparently the most primitive and 
generalized type known in the palseontological series, and 
containing probably the ancestors of most existing reptiles. 
Two Texas cardinals {Pyrrhuloxia sinuata) were received 
in the same month by purchase. 
In May a collection of water fowl was received from the 
Zoological Garden at Antwerp, and were placed in the new 
duck ponds constructed last year. Those which were new to 
the collection were the black-necked swan of South America 
{Cygnus nigricollis), the common sh eldvsike (Tadornatadorna), 
and the ruddy sheldrake (T. casarca). 
A rare parrot, the green-thighed caica {Caica leucogastra), 
from the Amazon, was also purchased, as were two Bahama 
