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■ ‘ly vhited by animal dealers. According to members of the expedition, many of their col- 
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Mrs. Malcolm Davis, wife of the keeper of the birdhouse, 
shown waving to her husband—who is quarantined for 15 days 
on the second floor of the reptile house, where he will care 
for the creatures newly come to live at the Zoo. Keeper Davis 
missed out on the excitement of the African journey—so health 
authorities are giving him this little adventure, and he can’t 
get out of it. 
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Morsels to African Natives 
Expedition Docks Here on Norfolk Boat 
With Rare Specimens for Zoo 
r»r. Mann, recovering from an attack of malaria aggravated by his African expedition, is 
>v.ii at, left shaking hands with Dr. Alexander Wetmore, assistant director of the Smithsonian 
dilution, who met him at thq Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Wharf here this morning. 
Mann, sun-tanned and in excellent health after the trip, looks on. 
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By W. H. SIIIPPEN, Jr. 
The voracious appetites of Liberian 
bush natives considerably reduced 
the size of the animal collection 
being placed on display at the Zoo 
today from the Smithsonian Insti¬ 
tution-Firestone expedition to West 
Africft 
Whiie Zoo Director William M. 
Maori and his party arrived with 
several hundred rare birds, beasts 
and reptiles, scores of valuable speci¬ 
mens were sacrificed to the con¬ 
suming hunger for meat of the 
natives who inhabit the wild back 
country of Liberia. 
None of the creatures of the forest 
seemed too unappetizing for their 
taste—lizards, frogs, snakes, porcu¬ 
pines, rates as well as valuable 
antelope, etc. All were seized with 
enthusiasm and eaten with great 
relish, whenever the natives could 
escape detection by members of the 
expedition. 
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Mann in Need of Eesi. 
Dr. Mann, greatly weakened by a 
severe attack of tropical malaria, 
arrived here this morning with Mrs. 
Mann on the boat from Norfolk, 
where the expedition landed yes¬ 
terday from the freighter West 
leave the Reptile House during the 
quarantine period. 
The collection was obtained from 
an area in West Africa infrequently 
visited by anirqal dealers. Many 
small mammals, monkeys and birds 
obtained in Liberia are rare in 
zoos and a few are unknown in the 
United States. 
Part of the collection wa$ re¬ 
turned a few months ago by Roy 
Zennier, one of two Zoo keepers who 
accompanied Dr. and Mrs. Mann 
to Liberia. The other keeper, 
Ralph Norris, returned with the 
party which arrived in Norfolk 
yesterday. 
