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who, under date of March 16, writes as follows: 
“I inclose a pathological report on the bird 
received from your messenger this afternoon. 
I fear that this parasitic disease, especially 
among the Mexican and California valley quail, 
is not at all uncommon. Personally, I have 
known of several private collections that have 
been entirely wiped out by these parasites. The 
symptoms in the affected birds are diminution 
of appetite, drooping, emaciation and diarrhoea. 
“W. Reid Blair.” 
AUTOPSY SUMMARY. 
Animal—Quail. 
Source— Forest and Stream. 
Date of Death—March 10. 
Date of Autopsy—March 16. 
ANATOMICAL DIAGNOSIS. 
External Lesions—Bird shows considerable 
emaciation. 
Brain and Spinal Cord—Negative. 
Heart—Normal. 
Lungs—Right and left, congested and pneu¬ 
monic. 
Liver—Normal. 
Kidneys—Right and left, congested. 
Spleen and Lymph Nodes—Normal. 
Stomach—N egative. 
Small Intestine—No food, mucous membrane 
extremely pale. 
Large Intestine—Marked necrotic inflammation. 
Great numbers of nematode worms are 
present throughout the entire large in¬ 
testine. 
Species of Parasite —Heterakio diffcrens. Male, 
7 m.m. long; female, 11 m.m. to 13 m.m. 
long. 
Cause of Death—Parasitic inflammation of large 
intestine. Pneumonia as a secondary con¬ 
dition, brought about by the parasitic 
weakening. 
THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY’S RECORD ELEPHANT TUSKS. 
[March 30, 1907 
_ I 
World’s Record Elephant Tusks. 
The New York Zoological Society has 
cently received from London the longest tmj 
ever known to have come from a living spec; 
of elephant. Until their arrival at the Z< • 
logical Park, their reported length seemed • 
most unbelievable. The longest tusk has 1; 
astonishing length of II feet 5^2 inches, wli 
the other measures exactly 11 feet. One me 
ures 18 inches in circumference; the other ii 
inches, and the combined weight of the two; 
293 pounds. The next largest tusk on record! 
only 10 feet 4 inches in length, or more tl ■ 
one foot shorter. These tusks are from ;; 
African elephant, evidently of enormous size j; 
This giant pair was purchased by cable of N 
Rowland Ward, the well-known naturalist j: 
. London, and they are recorded in the fi 
edition of his “Records of Big Game,” wh 
was issued last December. They were purchai 
by him at the last ivory sale in London. Tl 
come to the Zoological Society as a gift fn 
Mr. Charles T. Barney, chairman of the < 
ecutive committee. The price paid in Loncl 
was $2,500. and they were secured by the pron 
action of Mr. Barney, who, the moment 1 
opportunity was made known to him, authori; 
the purchase. 
It has been stated that these huge tusks w< 
formerly owned by King Menelik, of Abyssir 
and by him were presented to an official of 1 
French government. The Zoological Sock 
knows nothing definite on these points. It 
known, howeyer, that the longest tusks gro 
by African elephants are produced immediati 
south of Abyssinia. 
. Both these tusks are quite perfect in ev< 
respect. They originally set into the skull ab< 
26 inches. It is evident from their shape tl 
after leaving the skull they curved inw; 
slightly, then outward and upward in very gra< 
ful and pleasing lines. 
These tusks are not only the longest e< 
known, but the chances are as ten thousand 
one that they never will be equalled by i 
tusks of any living elephant. They will be < 
hibited for a short time in the alcove of 1 
Lion House, and eventually will be placed 
the national collection of heads, horns al 
game records which the sportsmen of Amer 
will shortly form for the society, for permam 
exhibition in the Zoological Park. 
A Find in a. Marble Yard. 
A block of marble was recently sawed ii 
slabs at the Fisher Marble Yard, at Pi 
Morris, N. Y., to decorate the new house o 
Mr. Kane in New York. An irregular shaf 
piece of refuse marble left, Mr. W. C. Kentz 
the foreman, ordered thrown out. It was t 
heavy for the man to handle, so* he took 
maul and cracked it in two. In an expos 
surface Mr. Kentzer noticed something curv 
like a ram’s horn. He examined it and carefti 
picked the marble away from the object, 
was white, just the color of the marble, 1 
seemed to lie in the marble yet separate from 
One side of the block of stone came aw 
in a large slab showing a perfect imprint of i: 
object in it. The other side required picki 
at to remove the marble which was broken aw 
in smaller pieces. 
Where cleared of all adhering marble the c 
ject looked like a coiled up snake cast 
marble, the ribs (?) showing in ridges will 
at first gave Mr. Kentzer the ram’s horn i 
pression. 
The cast—if such it be—is 13 inches in dj 
meter, 3 inches thick and 2 >Ya inches wide ba: 
of the head, which measures 5 inches in lengj 
With a celluloid foot rule the body measurj 
around its middle measures about 5 feet 6 inch , 
a iittle longer by an inch or so if anything, I 
it was hard to follow around the small cent j 
coils. 
A short distance back from the head appeal 
a short leg, looking more like an arm wil 
three fingers or toes. 
On the head are faint indications of an ei 
nose and mouth as shown in the accompany! C 
sketch. 
