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from Samuel B. Schieftelin, Esq., of Tarrytown, New York' 
These birds were bred in his extensive aviaries at that 
place. 
Three Hardwick's meLstigxiYes {Uromastix hardwicki) were 
received in the same month from W. A. Conklin, of New 
York, and were added to the collection in the Reptile 
House. 
On December 10th Mr. Howard Eaton, of Medora, North 
Dakota, reached the Gardens, bringing a male mountain 
sheep (Ovis cervina) four years old, and a yearling female of 
the same species. The male was captured near Eed Rock 
Lake, Idaho, early in the past summer, and is a superb 
animal ; the female was caught also during the summer 
in the bad lands of the Little Missouri River. With these 
were also received six trumpeter swans {Cygnus buccinator). 
This fine species being seldom found except in the far 
west is not common in collections, and the present speci- 
mens are the first which we have ever received. 
A third mountain sheep, also a young female, having been 
placed on deposit at the Gardens, with two prong-horned 
antelopes, by Alfred Harrison, Esq., of Philadelphia, this 
splendid species is now well represented in the collection, 
and although the difficulties attending its domestication 
have not heretofore been overcome, the good condition in 
which these specimens arrived leads to the hope that better 
success may result from this attempt to naturalize this species 
in the Eastern States. 
On the 24th of December a slow loris {Nycticebus tardi- 
gradus) from Burmali was purchased. This interesting 
little lemur has not previously been shown in the Gardens. 
Mr. T. Morgan Stewart kindly sent from Cienfuegos, 
Cuba, three capromys {Capromys pilorides), which arrived 
on January 18th. 
The animals bred during the year w^ere as follows : — 
1895. 
March 11. 2 Indian Antelopes {Antilope cervicapra). 
" 16. 1 Hog Deer ( Cervus porcinus). 
April 9. 1 Bactrian Camel (Camelus bactrianus). 
