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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



Elw IN R. Sanborn, Editor. 

 firpartmrtitB : 



Mammal Reptile 



W. T. HORNADAY. RAVmOND L. DiTMARS. 



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MnC. OsBURN, Ph. D. 



Lee S. Grand 



Published Bi-Monthly at the Office of the Society, 



11 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. 



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(Sffitrra of tiit Sortrto- 



yrrsibrnt : 



Henry Faireield Osborn. 

 Exrcutlnr CDammtttrr: 



Madison Grant, Chairman, 



John S. Barnes, Samuel Thorne, William White Niles, 



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



Frank K. Sturcis, 



Henry Faireield Osborn, Ex-Offtcio, 



(Srnrtal Sfficrri: 



Secretary 



Madison Grant, 1 1 Wall Street. 



Treasurer 



Percy R. Pyne, 30 Pine Street. 



Director 



William T. Hornaday, Zoological Park. 



Director of the Aquarium 

 Charles H. Townsend, Battery Park. 



Soarb of Ulaiiagrre : 



Ex-Officio 



The Mayor of the City of New York 



Hon. William J. Gaynor. 



Levi P. Morton, 

 Andrew Carnegie, 

 John L. Cadwalader, 

 John S. Barnes, 

 Madison Grant, 

 William White Niles, 



F. Augustus Scher^ 

 Percy R. Pyne, 

 George B. Grinnell 



Henry F. Osborn, 

 William C. Church, 

 Lispenard Stewart, 

 H. Casimir de Rham, 

 Hugh D. Auchincloss, 

 Chari.es F. Dieterich, 



Olliaa of 1912. 



Samuel Thorne, 

 Henry A. C Taylor, 

 Hugh J. Chisholm, 

 Frank K. Sturgis. 

 George J. Gould, 

 Ogden Mills. 



(UtM» of 1913. 



rhorn, Frederick G. Bourne, 

 W. Austin Wadsworth, 

 Emerson McMillin. 

 Anthony R. Kuser. 

 Watson B. Dickerman, 

 Mortimer L. Schief. 



(Slaae of 1914. 



James J. Hill, 

 George F. Baker, 

 Grant B. Schley, 

 Wm. Pierson Hamilton, 

 Robert S. Brewster, 



Edward S. Ha 



(^Sierra afti\t Zaalngital 9artt : 



W. T. HOUNADAY, Sc. D., Director. 

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

 Raymond L. Ditmars - - Curator of Reptiles. 



C. William Beebe • - - Curator of Birds. 



Lee S. Crandall • - - Assistant 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. 



G. M. Bekrbower - - - Civil Engineer. 



W. I. Mitchell . - - - office Assistant. 



tS&itttB of tt^r Aquartum 



Charles H. Townsend, Director. 

 Raymond C. OsBURN, Ph.D. - - - Assistant Director. 

 Chapman Grant -.-... Scientific Assistant 

 W. I. DeNyse In Charge of Collections. 



BAYNE-BLAUVELT BILL. 



NEW YORK PROHIBIT.S THE SALE OF WILD GAME. 



One of the most notable achievements of this 

 session of the Legislature has been the passage 

 of the Bayne-Blauvelt Bill for the prohibiting 

 of the sale of wild game. This measure marks 

 the most important step in the movement for the 

 protection and conservation of wild life on this 

 continent. Game laws are never popular, and 

 It is a source of constant wonder to those who 

 realize the fierce independence of the average 

 American citizen, to realize how he has, more 

 or less quietly, acquiesced in certain restrictive 

 measures. Each step in the campaign has been 

 marked by protests and sometimes bj^ set-backs, 

 but it will be a surprise to all lovers of nature 

 to realize that the destruction of the wild life 

 has now gone so far, that the prohibition of 

 public sale has become imperative. 



In the past, the citizen was at libertj' to enter 

 into state forests and cut such timber as he 

 liked for sale or for his own use; so up to this 

 date it has been one of tlie privileges of the 

 hunter and trapper to kill and catch as many 

 birds and fur bearing animals as he could, and 

 to sell them for his own individual profit. This 

 could be permitted so long as the hunters were 

 few and the game abundant. That time passed 

 away in the middle of the last century. 



First, skin hunting for deer was prohibited; 

 next, close seasons were provided ; then fol- 

 lowed limitation of the bag and shorter open 

 seasons ; then the entire jirohibition of the kill- 

 ing of certain kinds of game threatened with 

 extinction ; then came limitations on the mode 

 of killing, such as hounding, water hunting, 

 jacking, the use of snares and swivel guns and 

 tiie like. All these measures, excellent as they 

 were, checked the slaughter, but the game con- 

 tinued to decrease. 



During the last few 3'ears it became evident 

 that further restrictions were necessary if we 

 were to have left in this state, enough animals 

 and birds to breed any further supplj' whatever. 

 The price of game, especially ducks and grouse, 

 rose to prohibitive prices, and when the restau- 

 rants in Xew York charged from .'f.'J.OO to •$.'5. 00 

 apiece for grouse, it was evident that the end 

 was close at hand. 



The Director of the Zoological Park, Dr. 

 Hornaday. was one of the first to realize that 

 a new princi])lc of game jirotection must be in- 

 augurated in this state, and with the assistance 

 of a number of very energetic workers, and the 

 endorsement of practically every organization 

 in the state interested in the subject of the pro- 

 tection of wild life, he caused to be prepared 



