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An example of the reddish king snake {Ophibolus 
doliatus clericus) was presented on April 24th by Mr. C. L. 
Anderson, of Moorestown, N. J. This is a rare transitional 
form, and although native to this portion of the Atlantic 
states, but two living specimens have been shown in the 
collection. 
On May lOth a pair of American bison were received from 
the AUard herd in western Montana, and placed in the new 
buffalo inclosure. 
An additional specimen of the lately described Coluber 
subocularis was received on May 12th from the Davis Moun- 
tains, Texas, the same locality from which the type 
specimens, referred to in the last report, were secured. 
On May 16th a female Indian elephant, four years old, 
was received as a gift from a member of the Board of 
Directors. This animal measured upon arrival four feet 
four inches in height. She has been named " Kaiserin," and 
it is intended that she shall be trained to carry visitors upon 
her back, as was formerly the custom with the elephant 
''Jennie," which died in 1898. 
A number of lemurs were purchased in July and Sep- 
tember from Carl Hagenbeck. Ten of these belong to the 
species known as Lemur mongoz, and well illustrate its 
remarkable variability, among them being examples of 
each of the color forms- to which the following names have 
been applied: L. collaris Geoff; L. melanocephela Gray; 
L. xanthomystax Gray, and L. rufifrons Geoff. 
Among other animals purchased from Mr. Hagenbeck was 
an exceptionally fine lion, six years old. Since the death 
of Pompey," who lived from 1874 to 1887 in the Gardens, 
the Society has had no specimen at all comparable to the 
one now secured. 
A Chinese mynah (Acridotheres cristatellus) was presented 
on August 7th by Mr. Joshua Tevis. 
On November 17th two cubs of the brown variety of the 
black American bear arrived at the Gardens. These inter- 
esting animals were secured by Mr. James Spear, Jr., of 
Philadelphia, on the Fraser River, in British Columbia, 
