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Fairbanks? This will not only finish 

 the Kenai country, but it will open up 

 and finish very soon that other won- 

 derful game field round the foot of 

 Mount McKinley, in spite of the new 

 reserve there. 



Already friends in Alaska write 

 that the white sheep, Ball's sheep, a 

 grand game animal, is growing much 

 scarcer. They say it is because of 

 the general practice the inhabitants 

 have of killing it for dog food. And 

 yet but lately we thought Alaska was 

 a long way off and needed civilizing! 

 It would seem that Americanism is 

 pretty generally in sway there right 

 now. 



We are indeed a strange and won- 

 derful people when it comes to the ad- 

 ministration of our own natural 

 wealth? Do you, for instance, know 

 that most of the big game we have 

 left in the United States is packed 

 around a few of the National Parks, 

 Monuments and Forests? As to its 

 preservation, everything seems to be 

 carefully arranged so that the game 

 cannot possibly be preserved. 



There are only two Federal Game 

 Refuges in our National Forests. There 

 are State Game Refuges on National 

 Forests in six different states — get 

 that clearly in mind if you can; and 

 in these refuges state laws prevail as 

 to the game, though the National Gov- 

 ernment controls the timber and graz- 

 ing. 



This means that the United States 

 takes in sheep on the Forest Reserves 

 and that the sheep kill out all the 

 game. It also means that the officials 

 at Washington are left in a perfect 

 position for passing the buck and ex- 

 plaining why they do thus and so. 



In the sixteen National Parks the 

 United States retains the right to pro- 

 tect the wild game in only seven! Do 

 you know that? Of the thirty-four 

 National Monuments, twenty-one are 



run by the National Park Service, 

 eleven by the Forestry Reserve, and 

 two by the War Department. It is 

 too bad the Navy Department hasn't 

 any! — Saturday Evening Post. — W. A. 

 Strong, San Jose, Cal. 



Books Received 



"The Journal of the Museum of 

 Comparative Oology," Vol. 1 Numbers 

 1 and 2 March 26, 1919." This new 

 publication in the field of Oology for- 

 merly occupied exclusively in North 

 America by "The Oologist" is welcome 

 at our desk. The Museum of Com- 

 parative Oology located at Santa Bar- 

 bara, California, is too well known to 

 all oologists to need introduction or 

 comment. The publication of a Jour- 

 nal by this institution, we believe, will 

 result in much good if the standard 

 of excellence shown in the first double 

 number is maintained. It contains 

 many half tones illustrative of the 

 buildings, cases, manner of arrange- 

 ment and preparation of specimens, 

 all of which are of much educational 

 value to the average oologist; besides 

 illustrations of the manner "how to 

 do it" and "how not to do it" in which 

 comparision is made of the right and 

 wrong methods of collecting. A des- 

 cription of the Museum, where it is 

 located, its equipment, purposes and 

 ambitions are likewise set forth, to- 

 gether with lists of its Board of Visi- 

 tors and Patrons. 



It is to be hoped that his publication 

 will continue and The Oologist is glad 

 to divide the field with so worthy an 

 associate. W. Leon Dawson is the 

 editor, and he has our congratulations 

 on his first production. 



The "Audubon Bulletin, Winter 

 1918, 1919, Illinois Audubon Society." 

 This Bulletin, like its predecessors is 

 a well gotten up and splendidly illus- 

 trated exposition of the activities of 

 the Audubon Society in the state of II- 



