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Published bi-monthly at the Office of the Society, 
111 Broadway, New York City. 
Yearly by Mail, $1.00. 
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Copyright, 1920, by the New York Zoological Society. 
Each author is responsible for the scientific accuracy 
and the proof reading of his contribution. 
Exiwin R. Sansorn, Editor 
Vou. XXIII, No. 3 
May 1920 
the national emblem not to wipe the species from 
the face of the earth? Congress could not do 
better than to come to the rescue of the bird that 
“orasps the crag with hooked hands.” 
HANDLIST OF BIRDS OF EGYPT 
From the Zoological Service of the Egyptian 
Government's Ministry of Public Works we 
have received, as Publication No. 29, Mr. M. J. 
Nicoll’s “Handlist of the Birds of Egypt.” On 
this work its author has been engaged for thir- 
teen years, and it is the first publication of its 
kind since 1872. 
So far as human knowledge extends, it is a 
complete and well annotated list of the birds of 
Egypt, it is illustrated and adorned by twenty- 
five colored figures of birds and many half-tones 
of bird skins, and the volume is highly creditable 
to the Government Press of Cairo. It contains 
a good map, 120 pages of text, and its price is 
15 Turkish piastres. 
WILLIAM DUTCHER 
On Friday, July 2, at his son’s home, Chevy Chase, 
Md., at the seventy-four years, William 
Dutcher, ornithologist and defender of American 
birds, passed over the great divide. Stricken with 
almost complete paralysis ten years ago, his actual 
work ended at that time, but the foundation that he 
laid, and the structure that he erected upon it pre- 
vious to that time, will endure forever. 
The National Association of Audubon Societies 
which he founded in 1902 is a monument to his exec- 
utive ability, his love of birds, his love of fair play, 
his love of mankind, his abhorrence of cruelty and 
waste, and to one-man Albert Wilcox saw 
Mr. Dutcher, approved him and his methods, and 
left his fortune of $822,000 as an endowment fund 
for the National Audubon Association. 
age of 
power. 
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To Mr. Dutcher his years of labor in the cause of 
bird protection represented a great burden of extra 
work, wholly without compensation save in the form 
of satisfaction in having rendered valuable service 
to his country. He lived to see and to enjoy the 
splendid fruits of his labors, of which even disease 
and death could not rob him. 
A brave, clean and gallant spirit has passed away. 
The world is better because he lived. Wherever 
American birds fly between the poles, the name of 
William Dutcher deserves to be known and gratefully 
remembered. 
“IT drink to him, he is not here, 
Yet I would guard his glory. 
A knight without reproach or fear, 
Should live in song and story.” 
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PROTECTING THE PRONG-HORNED 
ANTELOPE 
The occasions wherein the Zoological Society 
has entered into the field of law enforcement 
have been few indeed; but circumstances alter 
cases. 
Last summer while touring through eastern 
Oregon Mr. Madison Grant touched the sphere 
of influence of the last bands of prong-horned 
antelope now remaining in that state. They 
are in Lake County, south by east of the Warner 
Lakes, and their country is crossed by the Ore- 
gon Military Road. They inhabit a region of 
sterile lava, wholly impossible for agriculture, 
and only slightly useful for stock grazing. 
