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White-Fronted Antbird, a fourtli individual. 
Wedge-Billed Woodhewer ( Glyphorhynchus cuneatus) 
creeping up trunk of tree. 
Yellow Chai.cid Wasp resting on leaf. 
Antbirds, flock of about a dozen in tall tree, unidentified. 
Ameiva Lizard, rushing into hole as I approached. 
Long-Legged Dolichopodid Fly on leaf. 
Giant Metallic Blue Bee flying past. 
Tryxalid Grasshopper motionless on leaf. 
Azteca Ants in nest suspended over trail. 
Reached Gully at 8:15 and observed the fol¬ 
lowing Organisms within Fifteen Minutes: 
Red-Fronted Woodpecker ( Tripsurus rubrifrons) seen and 
heard hammering almost overhead. 
Olive-Backed Ovenbird ( Automolus ) seen picking up food 
from bottom of gully. 
Amazon Parrots calling, not seen. 
Mouse-Colored Bushbird ( Hypolophus murinus ) calling. 
Small Ichneumon Fly alighting on my hand. 
Two Muscid Flies hovering over flower. 
Minute Grey Moth flying near hy. 
Brown Cricket Calling a few feet away. 
Palm Tanagers (Thraupis palmarum) heard and seen in tree. 
Guiana Squirrel ( Guerlinguetus aestuans) scolding me a 
minute or more from the center of a bush across the 
gully. 
Red Howling Monkeys making a great uproar to the north. 
probably a new band. 
Two Small Flies in mid air. 
Minute Gnat flying about my eyes. 
Macaws again, probably the same pair. 
Reddish Robber Fly resting on leaf. 
Ring-Tailed Monkeys (Cebits apclla apclla) swinging by 
within fifty feet, passing close to the ground. 
Large Ant with the tip of the abdomen jet black. 
Trypetid Dancing-Wing Fly. 
Long-Tailed Hummingbird, probably Phacthoniis, flying 
swiftly. 
Minute Yellow Ants, twenty in small flower. 
Deer Fly buzzing close to my face. 
Small Yellow Caterpillar under nearest leaf. 
Small Ithomiid Butterfly flying slowly past. 
Variegated Tinamou ( Crypturus variegatus ) calling to the 
south. 
Papilic Butterfly alighting near by' and walking over leaf. 
8:30 A. M. 
RESEARCH STATION NOTES 
At the present moment, there are in the com¬ 
pound of the Research Station eight living Hoat- 
zins, just brought from Berbice by Gilbert 
Broking, a member of the Station staff. They 
are awaiting the earliest possible moment for 
shipping to the Zoological Park. 
The live stock at present in cages or on chains 
about the bungalow under the charge of Miss 
Rose, includes a sloth, a great anteater seven 
feet long, a twelve-foot boa constrictor, a ring¬ 
tailed monkey, squirrel monkey, iguanas, turtles, 
oppossums, tanagers, jungle rats, electric eels, 
land crabs, crocodile, Devonian catfish, burrow¬ 
ing legless lizards, and numerous lesser forms 
such as frogs, lizards, fish and large insects. 
* * * 
As a sequel to the article in the May Bulletin 
concerning Little Tobago and the birds of para¬ 
dise established there, news has come of its pur¬ 
chase for ten thousand dollars by Mr. A. Luban 
of Newark, New Jersey. It is reported that he 
is attempting to trap and cage some of the birds, 
with the idea of breeding them in Florida for 
commercial purposes. 
ITEMS OF INTEREST 
Birds 
Summary of Organisms Observed 
Within an hour’s time I made two hundred 
and forty-six observations and recorded five 
hundred and thirty-six living creatures. This 
included all five phyla of vertebrates, of which 
one hundred and twenty-eight individuals were 
birds. The details of this summary are as fol¬ 
lows : 
Observations I ndivuluats 
Mammals . 
. 8 
12 
Birds . 
. 71 
128 
Reptiles . 
4 
Amphibians . .. 
. 1 
2 
Fishes . 
Insects: 
2 
Lepidoptera, 
Imagos .... 13 
16 
Lepidoptera, 
Caterpillars. 11 
11 
Hymenoptera 
. 3!) 
95+ 
Diptera . 
139+ 
Orthoptera 
. 20 
25 
Hemiptera . . 
. 13 
43 
Coleoptera .. 
9 
Odonata .... 
2 
2 
Isoptera . . .. 
30+ 
Spiders . 
13 
Phalangida .... 
. i 
3 
Millipedes . 
. i 
1 
Crabs . 
. i 
1 
246 
536 
By L. S. Crandall 
New Penguins .—Of all the strange birds in 
the world, none makes a stronger appeal to the 
popular imagination than the penguin. Its gro¬ 
tesquely human appearance, its upright attitude 
on land and its dignified walk, instantly arouse 
a flood of comparisons. No bird is less bird¬ 
like than the penguin and it is not strange that 
tired parents often are heard to assure their 
off-spring that the occupants of the penguins’ 
pool are young seals. 
Just before the war, five specimens of the 
black-footed penguin (Spheniscus demersus) , of 
South America, came to the Zoological Park. 
Seldom have we been so fortunate as with these 
birds. Accepting the then vacant walrus pool 
as their native land, they divided themselves 
into pairs and settled down to housekeeping. 
Many eggs were laid, several young were 
hatched and one was fully reared. Gradually, 
however, the flock dwindled, and in June, 1920, 
after six years of yeoman service, the last of 
the penguins succumbed to an attack of pto¬ 
maine poisoning. 
No shipments of penguins reached America 
between 1914 and 1922, in spite of our efforts 
to secure them. In 1920, the Zoological Society 
