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A contract has been entered into with Witherby & Com- 

 pany, pubKshers, London, for the publication of this important 

 work. 



This publication will consist of four volumes quarto size, 

 about 130 pages each, with a total of about 170 plates, of which 

 90 will be colored plates. The issue is limited to 600 copies 

 and will be sold by subscription at $250. No expense has been 

 spared in the preparation of the illustrations and the text, and 

 the monograph, when finished, will be worthy of a place beside 

 the finest works that have appeared on the birds of the world. 



FORESTRY DEPARTMENT, AND NEW CONSTRUCTION. 

 The work of this department is continually increasing, and 

 during 1912 the usual care of the grounds, trees, shrubs and 

 other plants, as well as the upkeep of walks, fences, cages, 

 buildings, drainage, water and sewage systems, were taken in 

 charge. In addition to this the regulating of picnic crowds and 

 the policing of the Park has proved an important branch of the 

 work of this department. During the year about 4,000 pic- 

 nickers were taken care of. The usual work was maintained 

 in the prevention of infection of trees, prevention of fire, usual 

 breeding of poultry, the repairing of existing buildings and 

 installations, rearrangement of planting in Bird Valley, small 

 permanent installations, including eight show^ cages and four- 

 teen breeding cages; raising bottom of Sea Lion Pool three 

 feet, to facilitate cleaning and to save water; a great amount 

 of grading and resurfacing of roads and walks with tar- 

 macadam; cleaning and repaving with broken stone of bottom 

 of Beaver Pond ; also a great deal of draining, filling and grad- 

 ing work on the east side of the river in regions which have 

 never been touched before. 



BRONX RIVER PARKWAY. 



One of the most important events in the history of the 

 Society has been the authorization by the Board of Estimate 

 and Apportionment on July 15, 1912, of the Bronx River Park- 

 way. This plan is in charge of a State Commission of which 

 the Chairman of this Committee, Mr. Madison Grant, is presi- 

 dent, and of which Mr. William W. Niles is also a member. 

 The third commissioner is Mr. James G. Cannon, President of 

 the Fourth National Bank. The entire erosion valley of the 

 Bronx River, from the north end of Bronx Park to Kensico 

 Reservoir, is to be turned into a park, and the waters of the 



