14 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
Departments : 
Mammals Aquarium 
W. T. Horvapay. C. H. Townsenp. 
Birds Reptiles 
Lee S. CRANDALL. Raymonp L. Ditmars 
WittiaM Breese. Honorary Curator, Birds 
Published bi-monthly at the Office of the Society, 
111 Broadway, New York City. 
Yearly by Mail, $1.00. 
MAILED FREE TO MEMBERS. 
Copyright, 1920, by the New York Zoological Society. 
Each author is responsible for the scientific accuracy 
and the proof reading of his contribution. 
Etwin R. Sansorn, Editor 
Vou. XXIII, No. 1 
JANUARY 1920 
THE WILD-ANIMAL FAMINE 
When an Asker of Foolish Questions saw the 
Wild Man of Borneo, he promptly inquired, 
“What makes you wild?” 
“The fool questions that people ask me,” was 
the answer. 
If the same man should put the same question 
The famine in wild 
to us, we would answer 
animals. 
Daily, weekly, monthly, the situation steadily 
is growing more serious. Until recently, Eng- 
land and Canada had been open to us for hoofed 
animals, but in December 1919, when we applied 
for a permit to import a rare African antelope 
from England, we found that even that country 
now is under the grand taboo. It is because of 
foot-and-mouth disease. 
Really, unless the Bureau of Animal Industry 
will loosen up, and place some real reliance 
upon the quarantine conditions of every well- 
kept zoological garden, ALL collections of 
foreign antelopes, goats, markhors, ibexes, sheep, 
wild cattle, deer, giraffes and wild swine very 
soon will be obliterated. The remnants of the 
stocks on hand in 1914 rapidly are dying of 
old age and leaving empty cages behind them. 
We think that in many cases the regulations 
are too sweeping, and unnecessarily severe on 
wild animals that never have the diseases of 
domestic species. 
INVALID SOLDIERS AT PARK 
Surely it will give all members of the Zoolog- 
ical Society a thrill of pleasure to learn from 
the reading of the accompanying letter how the 
Zoological Park has been enjoyed by wounded 
soldiers in New York hospitals. The gratitude 
so generously expressed is in no sense due to 
the director of the Park, but to those who have 
made the Park what it is. ie fhe 186) 
127 West 58th Street, New York, 
December 11, 1919. 
Dear Dr. Hornaday: 
As the member of the American Red Cross Motor 
Corps who has taken a large number of wounded 
soldiers to visit the Zoological Park, I want to thank 
you on behalf of the boys for the great privileges 
which you have extended to them. 
I was attached last winter to Debarkation Hos- 
pital No. 3, known to us as “Greenhut’s” on special 
duty to take out badly wounded soldiers, and our 
visits to the Park were of the greatest benefit and 
the greatest pleasure. Our Ward Surgeon stated it 
helped materially in their recovery and morale. This 
outing was always so popular and so much discussed 
that there were more boys ready to go than there 
were automobiles available. 
The kindness and courtesy of Mr. Toomey, Mr. 
Spicer and Mr. Schwartz were unfailing, but the chief 
thanks are due to you, under whose instructions they 
acted. 
The woodland beauty and interest of the animals 
was much appreciated by the fine out-door Western- 
ers and Southerners. It was the rule not to take local 
boys. 
I know the fame of the Park is carried all over the 
United States. This winter these outings are still 
eentinuing from the Polyclinic Hospital, now under 
the War Risk Insurance. Many of the cases of these 
discharged men are very sad, but they eagerly look 
forward to the visits to the Park. I wish you could 
see the enthusiasm when a “Zoo party” is planned. 
I feel it my duty to express to you my appreciation 
of your kindness, and beg to remain, 
Yours very sincerely, 
IsapeL VICKERS. 
ZOOLOGICAL PARK FOR ILLINOIS 
A New Zooxroaicat Park Unir 1x Coox 
County, ApsgacentT To CutcaGco 
The Chicago Daily Tribune of the issue Jan- 
uary 1, 1920, printed the following information: 
“The plan committee of the Forest Preserve 
voted unanimously yesterday to accept Mrs. 
Harold F. McCormick’s gift of a $300,000 site 
for a huge country zoological garden. The site 
is a tract of about 200 acres on the west bank 
of the Desplaines River, near Riverside, and 
will be added to the Forest Preserve’s 1,500 
acres. 
“Mrs. McCormick has intimated through H. 
O. Stone, her agent, that she has no preference 
for a name for the new zoo, but it was tenta- 
tively agreed by the committee to name it the 
“McCormick Zoological Gardens.’ 
