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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



ELWIN R. S.iNBORN, Edit.ui. 



BrpartmrntB : 



MAMMAL 

 W. T. HORSADAY, SC. D. 



A<iUARinM 

 C. H. TOWNSEND, Sc. D. 



Raymond C. Osbirn, Ph. D. 



BIRD 



C. William Beebe 

 Lee S. Cranpall. 



Raymond L, Ditmar 



Published Bi-Monthly at the Office of the Society, 



n Wall Street, New York City. 



Single Numbers, 10 Cents ; Yearly, by Mail, 70 Cents. 



MAILED FREE TO MEMBERS. 



Copyright, 1911, by the New York Zoological Society. 



M.VKCII. 1!)11 



(§{Rttta of tift &ariPtB. 

 9rr0tiirnt : 



Ejtrnittnr (Summtttrt : 



Madison Grant, Chairman, 



John S Babnks, Samoel Thorne, William White Niles, 



PEHcy R Pyne, Levi P. Morton, Wm. Pierson Hamilton. 



Frank K. Sturois. 



Henry Fairfield Osborn, Ex-Offlcio. 



(Srnrral (Sffitrri: 



Secretary, Madison Grant, 11 Wall Street. 

 Treasurer, Percy R. Pyne, 30 Pine Street. 

 Director, William T. Hornauay, Sc.D., Zoological Park. 

 Director of the Aquarium, Charles H. Tuwnsend, Sc.D., Battery Park. 

 Saarb of IHanagtra : 

 Ex-0. 



The Mayor of the City of New York 



^ Hon. William J. Gaynor 



The President of" the Department of Parks, Hon. Charles B. Stover 



aiU«<afl912. (SliM* of 1913. dHaaa of 1914. 



Levi P. Morton, p. Augustus Schermerhorn, Henry F. Osborn^^ 



Andrew Carnegie, Percy R. Pyne, ""'" 



John L. Cadwalader, George B. Orinnell, 

 John S. Barnes, Jacob H. SchifT, 



Madison Grant, George C. Clark, 



William White Niles, Cleveland H. Dodge, 

 Samuel Thorne, C. Ledyard Blair, 



Henry A. C. Taylor, Frederick G. Hour 



William C. Church, 

 Lispenard Stewart, 

 H. Casimir de Rham, 

 Hugh D. Auchincloss, 

 Charles F. Dieterich, 

 James J. Hill, 



»»^... .*. -. .-J...., . George F. Baker, 



Hugh jTchisholm, ' W. Austin Wadsworth, Grant B. Schley, 

 Frank K. Sturgis, Emerson McMillin, Wm. PiersonHamilton, 



George J. Gould, Anthony B. Kuser Robert S. Brewster 



Ogden Mills Edward S. Harkness 



(SSicrra af tl|f Zaolagiral Park : 

 W. T. HoRNADAY, Sc. D., Director. 

 H. R. Mitchell ... - Chief Clerk and Disbursing Officer. 

 RAYMOND L. DlTMARS - ' Curator of Reptiles. 



C. William Beebe - - - Curator of Birds. 



Lee S. Crandall - - ■ Acting Curator of Birds 



W. Reid Blair, D.V.S, - Veterinarian and Pathologist. 



H. W. Merkel . - - . Chief Forester and Constructor. 



ELWIN R. Sanborn - - - Editor and Photographer. 



O. M. Beerbower ■ ■ Civil Engineer. 



W. I. Mitchell . - - - Office Assistant. 



(9ffirrra of tt)> Aquartnm 



Charles H. Townsend, Director. 

 Raymond C. OSBURN, Ph.D. - ■ - Assistant Director. 



Chapman Grant Scientific Assistant 



W. L DeNysk In Charge of Collections. 



SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Seventeenth Annual Meeting — in the 

 Grand Ball Room of the Waldorf-Astoria on the 

 evening of January 10, 1911, was the most suc- 

 cessful one that the Societ_y has held since its 

 inauguration. Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn pre- 

 sided and announced the names of the subscribers 

 to the Endowment Fund — a list of whom is 

 printed in this issue. Mr. Madison Grant report- 

 ed as Chairman of the Executive Committee. The 

 members of the Society were invited to avail 

 themselves of the new Administration Building, 



and its advantages were clearly presented to 

 jirospeetive ones. Mr. Grant spoke at consid- 

 erable length upon the proposed new Aquarium, 

 plans for which the Society is energetically 

 working upon. The business of the evening 

 was concluded by the presentation of a new 

 game jirotection resolution, which was enthusias- 

 tically received and unanimously passed by the 

 Society. Mr. Roy Andrews showed a series of 

 whaling pictures, with an interesting description 

 of modern methods of hunting this large mam- 

 mal. Mr. C. J. (Buffalo) Jones illustrated with an 

 extensive set of moving pictures, his method of 

 lassoing wild animals in Africa ; and a fine series 

 of films of bird life on the islands off the Scot- 

 tish Coast, completed an interesting entertain- 

 ment. The Ball Room, which comfortabl3'^ seats 

 about 1,200 persons, was almost entirely filled. 

 After refreshments were served the meeting ad- 

 journed. Ed. 



GAME PROTECTION RESOLUTION 



I'tixxcd hij tlie A'etc York Zoological Society at 

 the Annual Meeting, Januartj 10, 1911. 



Tlic following action on game protection was taken 

 lit the Annual Meeting of the New York Zoological 

 Society, Tuesday, .Tanuary 10, 1911. Over 1,000 mem- 

 licrs and guests were present, and the action was 

 taken with unanimity and enthusiasm. 



WiiKKKAS, it has been generally asserted in the pub- 

 lie press that certain commercial interests in the City 

 of Xew York will endeavor, at the coming session of 

 the legislature of the State, to repeal Section 98, 

 Chapter 24 of the Laws of the State of New York, 

 restricting the sale of the plumage of wild birds, and 

 Section -Jil, Chapter 34 relating to the possession and 

 sale of game birds during the close season, and 



Whereas, the market hunters of Long Island have 

 declared publicly their intention of securing the re- 

 ])eal of Section "l70. Chapter 2i of the Laws of the 

 State of New York, prohibiting the spring shooting 

 of wild fowl, and 



Whereas, the laws as they now stand are barely 

 sufficient for the protection of our wild birds. 



Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved, that the New 

 York Zoological Society does hereby condemn any at- 

 tempt to modify the existing statutes in tlie afore- 

 said manner, and be it 



Further Resolved, that the officers of the Zoolog- 

 ical Society be instructed to take such steps as may, 

 in their judgment, be most effective to provide for 

 the maintenance of the existing provisions of law for 

 the protection of the birds of this State. 



Whereas, the widely diversified statutes of the vari- 

 ous states of tlie Union relative to the protection of 

 wild fowl are entirely inadequate for the preservation 

 of game birds, and 



Whereas, many species of birds in their annual 

 migrations traverse the entire length of the United 

 States, and pass through many distinct jurisdictions 

 wherein the laws vary greatly, with the result that the 



