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Black spur-winged Goose (Pledropterus niger Sclater). 
Hab., Southeast Africa. 
A pair of this fine species was received on December 15th. 
Ross' Goose (Anser rossi Baird). 
Hab., western North America. 
Two beautiful specimens were purchased on May 3d. 
Porose Crocodile {Crocodilus porosns Schn.). 
Hab., Southern Asia and Northern Australia. 
A specimen, about five feet long, of this, wdien fully adult, 
largest of existing reptiles, was obtained on August llth. 
Cuban Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus carinatus Gray). 
Hab., Cuba. 
Two received on October 4th. 
Wagler's Viper (Lachesis wagleri Boie). 
Hab., Indian Archipelago. 
A fine example of this large and, although variable, always 
brilliantly-colored snake was obtained from Signapore 
on August 13th. 
Among the many donations during the year w^re: A 
young Brazilian ocelot sent from Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, by 
Mr. Frank Bond of Philadelphia; six wild cats trapped in 
South Carolina and shipped to the Garden by Dr. Norton 
Downs, a director of the Society, who also presented a fine 
young doe Virginia deer; the Eskimo dog "Peary" from 
Dr. R. N. Keely, Brow^n's Mills-in-the-Pines, New Jersey; 
two fully matured golden eagles, one trapped in Wyoming on 
the border of the Yellowstone National Park by Mr. John 
Law Dallam of Philadelphia and the other obtained in Vir- 
ginia by Mr. James Green of Philadelphia; a pair of Sebas- 
topol geese by Mrs. L. S. M. Robinson of Paoli, Pennsylvania, 
and fourteen cerberus snakes from Mr. F. Mitchell of New 
York City. 
In addition to the species previously mentioned as having 
been in the collection for the first time the following pur- 
chased specimens are worthy of special mention : — 
A Himalayan thar was obtained in April from the Washing- 
ton Zoological Park; a large male hamadryas baboon, an 
exceptionally fine pair of adult isabelline gazelles, a female 
Somali ostrich, as a mate for a male of this species, and a one- 
