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. 



