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when needed to complete a collection of American game animals. 

 The marketing of game heads cannot be too strongly condemned 

 by genuine hunters and by those interested in the protection of 

 wild animal life. 



INTRODUCTION OF FOREIGN ANIMALS. 



In this connection a word should be said about a proposition 

 to establish chamois in the Rocky Mountains. Efforts to intro- 

 duce European game, instead of protecting the native Ameri- 

 can animals, are constantly cropping out. Why anyone should 

 prefer a chamois to the far finer native animal is somewhat of a 

 mystery. Nature has provided for every portion of our country, 

 mammals, birds and fish well adapted to the needs of the locality, 

 and the introduction of . foreign animals simply means, in case 

 they survive, the crowding out of some native form. 



In the East the mountain goat never can be more than an object 

 of temporary curiosity, as he cannot long survive the rigors of 

 our Atlantic summer. A number of .young goat have been cap- 

 tured in British Columbia for exhibition in the New York Zoo- 

 logical Park, but while very docile, and taking readily to the 

 milk of domestic ewes, they all died before shipment except the 

 four now on exhibition at the Park. The proper place for the 

 exhibition and breeding of mountain goat is in the Canadian 

 National Park at Banff, Alberta, where there is an unsurpassed 

 opportunity to secure and breed not only goat, but also mountain 

 sheep, bison and even moose in their native environment. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 



The writer desires to acknowledge his indebtedness for as- 

 sistance in the preparation of the above article to Mr. Charles 

 Arthur Moore, Jr., to Mr. Andrew J. Stone, to Dr. J. A. Allen, 

 to Mr. Charles H. Townsend, to Mr. Wilfrid H. Osgood, and to 

 members of the Geological Survey, notably Mr. A. H. Sylvester. 



