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The births for the year were as follows : — 
1896. 
March 23. 1 Axis Deer {Cervus axis). 
April 24. 4 Prairie Wolves (Canis latrans). 
May 22. 1 Common Deer {Cariacus virginianus). 
31. 1 Summer Duck (Aix sponsa). 
June 5. 1 Fallow Deer {Cervus dama). 
" 15. 1 Fallow Deer (C. dama). 
July 18. 1 Hog Deer {Cervus porcinus). 
" 22. 1 Hog Deer {C. porcinus). 
" 23. 1 Hog Deer {C. porcinus). 
" 27. 1 Hog Deer {C. porcinus). 
August 3. 1 Gray Squirrel {Sciurus carolinensis pennsylva- 
nicus). 
Sept. 8. 1 Cheipmsin's Zehr Si {Equus bur chelli chapmani).'^ 
Oct. 24. 1 Indian Antelope {Antilope cervicapra). 
" 24. 1 American Buffalo (Bison bison).<^ 
1897. 
Jan. 4. 1 Red Kangaroo {Macropus rufus). 
" 27. 1 Indian Antelope [Antilope cervicajwa). 
Feb. 22. 1 Red Kangaroo {Macropus rufus). 
The tenth Annual Report of the Directors (1882) con- 
tained a list of all the species which up to that time 
had bred in the Gardens, showing that 46, viz., 39 spe- 
cies of mammals, 4 of birds, and 3 of reptiles, had bred 
out of a total number of 649 species which had been ex- 
hibited. A comparison is interesting with a recently re- 
vised list, in which 69 species of mammals, 17 of birds, 16 
of reptiles, and 2 of batrachians — in all, 104 species — have 
bred out of a total number of 1206 which the collection 
has contained up to the present time. 
The propagation of some of our native animals which 
are becoming scarce in a wild state has been conducted 
with as large a measure of success as seems possible in the 
limited space which can be allotted to any one species in 
the Gardens. This is notably the case with the American 
buffalo, whose future existence seems now to depend wholly 
upon private effort. Those in the Gardens now number 16, 
of which 9 are females, all having been bred there with 
the exception of 2, procured by exchange for those of our 
own breeding, to infuse a new strain into the herd. In 
October last a four-year-old bull was received in return for 
