Specimens

Four months ago Zoologist Parke Hardy Struthers of Syracuse University led a group of U. S. scientists and one 19-year-old Boy Scout out of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela and into the mountains of Merida. Last week they were back in Manhattan with an assortment of rare or hitherto unknown birds and animals, including eight Andean dogs which bark like a cat's yowling, a little, spotted ocelot, foxes, iguanas, turkeys, macaws, lovebirds and 15 parrots.

Prize find was a silvery ganoid fish, about a foot long, taken from the tumbling waters of a mountain stream. It has two mouths. Instead of scales it has what seem to be plates of silver. When the currents (which at times go 50 m. p. h.) are too fast for the ganoid, it creates a vacuum in its lower jowls, hangs on a rock by the suction and brakes itself with the plates of its silver armor.

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