Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-23
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
PRIZES THAT SHOWMEN WOULD
PAY BIG SUMS FOR.
Animals and Birds Known to Exist in
Remote Parts, but Not Ex-
hibited in Any Zoo.

From the New York Sun.
''Oh, there are good many animals that
are still to be caught and exhibited in the
menageries, said the old animal man,
reaching into the cage and scratching the
head of a jaguar. II can run off quite a
list without stopping to think.
- All the ZOOS are eager now for an okapi.
That's the strange prehistoric beast that
Sir Henry Johnston found alive in eastern
Africa.
ITS cross between a giraffe and a
horse, apparently. and a mighty big animal
There'l be big money for the circus that
gets the first specimen, and there are some
plucky and smart men in Uganda at this
very moment looking for the brute.
Nobody has been lucky enough or smart
enough to catch a Kadiak bear alive and
carry him to civilization. There's some
tning like beast for you-big as calf, so
that he'd make roaring Rocky mountain
grizzly look like little brown bear along
side of him.
The Biggest Rodent.
Down in South America, somewhere be-
hind the northeastern side of the Andes a
little north of the equator is a beast that
is the biggest rodent In the world. Travel
ers have seen pieces of it's hide and its
bones. and few have glimpsed it as it
sped through the dark primeval forests
1T is true rodent like the rat, but 1t is
as big as Newfoundland dog. That would
be good catch for geological garden
another hne prize is down there in
South America. 1t is a new species of
Jaguar, quite different from any that has
ever been exhibited In the shows in any
part of the world. It's a big black fellow.
and tremendously fierce. Nobody has ever
taken one alive
Then in the forests of the Amazon are
two birds that would make their captor
a famous man among BIOLOGISTS They
are<the bell bird, which has a voice exactly
like clear-ringing bell, and the lost SOUL .
which mas cry that makes the shivers
creep along mans backbone when he
hears 1t in those dark, mysterious, silent.
forbidding woods.
In Burmah somewhere is rhinoceros
that has a black hide and big tufted ears
The hide has been seen by white men lots
of times. but they haven't ever seen a liv-
ing animal.
The Unicorn.
up in the Himalayas a man has been
looking for years for-what do you sup
pose? A unicorn. He may be crazy-he
may be right.
He says that he has heard so many tales
from the native hunters up there of the
existence of one-horned antelope horse
that ne is bound to try and get one.
L.
but then didn't take much stock in the
discovery of a primitive wild horse in CEN
trail Asia, either, and now the geological
gardens of Hamburg and New York have
living specimens of these horses-funny,
ig-headed little brutes that are repre-
sentatives of some type of horse that must
be hundreds of thousands of years old.
Down in New Zealand comparatively
small as the land is, there are many animal
and bird mysteries still. They say that
there is brand new-that Is. new to the
world-type of animal on the order of the
duck bill down there yet. Darwin always
thought that some day veritable lizard
bird mot flying lizard. but a true miss
ing link between the birds and the reptiles)
might be found there
One explorer followed mysterious foot
prints in the snow of the high mountains
of New Zealand, but never came up with
the beast that had made them; but they
were such strange footprints that other
scientists agreed with him that the thing
that made them was quite unknown to
the world and must be wonderful being
SO, you see, there is plenty of work still
for us wild-animal catchers. We haven't
seen everything that there is to be seen, by
long shot,"