56 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
PHEASANT MONOGRAPH. 
The manuscript and illustrations are practically complete 
for the entire series of four volumes of the Pheasant Monograph, 
and the printing of the first volume by Witherby & Company 
of London, England, has been authorized and is now under way. 
The delay in the publication of this great work has been due 
entirely to industrial disturbances abroad caused by the war. 
BRONX PARKWAY COMMISSION. 
The Bronx Parkway Commission has proceeded actively 
with the work of acquiring the land necessary by private pur- 
chase, and at the end of the year had obtained more than one- 
half. Condemnation proceedings to acquire the balance will be 
instituted by the Commission during 1916. 
The entire possession of the lands from the Botanical Gar- 
dens to Kensico Dam will be secured by the Commission during 
the year, and work will be begun on the final construction of the 
Parkway. 
GAME PROTECTION. 
Dr. Hornaday was granted a leave of absence for two 
months from August 25, to tour the West in a campaign to en- 
courage the policy of establishing game refuges in our National 
Parks. The expenses of this tour were borne by the accumu- 
lated income in Dr. Hornaday’s Permanent Wild Life Protection 
Fund, and the results are set forth in two Wild Life Protection 
Bulletins, No. 1 and No. 2. 
Your committee are at present actively engaged in the sup- 
port of the Chamberlain-Hayden Bill now before the Congress 
of the United States, looking to the establishment of perpetual 
sanctuaries for animals and birds in areas in the National For- 
ests to be selected by the Secretary of Agriculture from lands 
unsuitable for agriculture or grazing. The policy of establish- 
ing game sanctuaries in National Forests has been approved by 
your committee as well as the members of the Society at the 
Annual Meetings, held in January, 1915 and 1916. If the bill 
mentioned above is adopted it will prove a most wonderful step 
forward in the federal protection and increase of wild life. 
