ZOOLOGICAL 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
Departments : 
Mammals Aquarium 
W.T. Hornapay. C. H. TownsEND. 
Birds Reptiles 
Lex S. CRANDALL. Raymonp L. Dirmars 
WuuiaM Beese. Honorary Curator, Birds 
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. 
ELwin R. Sansorn, Editor 
Vou. XXIV, No. 1 January, 1921 
MR. A. K. HAAGNER, OF PRETORIA 
It is always refreshing to welcome zoologists 
from far-distant countries. As we scan the 
“proceedings” and “transactions” of zoological 
organizations in Tasmania and Perth, Mel- 
bourne, Sarawak, Singapore, Pretoria and Cape 
Town we are, by each one, reminded that the 
brotherhood of science encircles the globe. 
We remember vividly the delightful call at 
New York eight years ago of Mr. W. H. D. 
LeSouet, Director of the Zoological Gardens of 
Melbourne, and the great uplift that he imparted 
to our knowledge of “Wild Life in Australia.” 
His visit certainly tended to put Australia on 
the zoological map. 
With the coming of a great collection from 
South Africa there came to us another far-dis- 
tant zoologist, Mr. A. K. Haagner, Director of 
the National Zoological Gardens of South 
Africa, at Pretoria, Transvaal. To tell the 
whole truth, we were so desirous of meeting 
Mr. Haagner that we urged, and even insisted 
upon, his coming, and his visit was fully as in- 
teresting and agreeable as we had anticipated it 
would be. 
It was in 1916 that Mr. J. A. Loring, who 
went to South Africa as our agent in quest of 
animals, discovered Mr. Haagner—for us,—en- 
joyed the benefits of his good will and practical 
helpfulness, and laid the foundation of the 
Africa-to-America collection of 1920. For three 
long years Mr. Haagner had been collecting and 
keeping the animals that finally culminated in 
the arrival of the steamer “Chinese Prince’ in 
Philadelphia on September 2. 
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Mr. Haagner is a young man, in full vigor, 
tall and muscular, and his energy is boundless. 
He won his spurs as Director by eight years of 
service in the Pretoria Gardens as assistant 
director. Already his zoological work, as repre- 
sented by his books and published papers, has 
given him a place with the leading zoologists of 
South Africa. More than this, we observed that 
he is deeply concerned about the destruction of 
wild life in South Africa, and we confidently ex- 
pect that he will develop into a strong conserva- 
tor of African game. 
Mr. Haagner is the author of “South African 
Bird Life” (1914) and “The Mammals of South 
Africa” (1920), and a large collection of scien- 
tific papers on the fauna of South Africa. 
While here Mr. Haagner shipped back to 
South Africa, for Pretoria and Johannesburg, a 
very large collection of mammals, birds and 
reptiles from the zoological parks of New York, 
Philadelphia and Washington. 
Weediaekte 
A BULL MOOSE AND A RAILROAD. 
The game preserve established by Mr. Wil- 
liam C. Whitney on October Mountain near Len- 
ox, Massachusetts, still shelters a solitary bull 
moose of fine proportions, whose name is record- 
ed as “Old Bill.” It is reported by Mr. William 
Sargood, Game Warden for Berkshire County, 
Mass., that Old Bill occasionally descends from 
the sky pastures and sheltering woods of October 
Mountain to the railroad track of the Pittsfield 
Branch of the N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R., and that, 
with more confidence than good judgment, he oc- 
casionally promenades along the track between 
the rails. 
Fortunately. the engineer and the trainmen of 
the railroad are good and true game preservers 
and whenever Old Bill is seen on the track 
ahead, the train is stopped and the trainmen 
humanely and patiently go out and shoo him off. 
Fortunately, thus far the diversions of the big 
moose on the railway’s right of way seem to 
have been confined to daylight hours. It is to 
be feared, however, that on some moonlight night 
Old Bill will make the tactical error of walking 
along the track without permission from the 
section boss and will come to grief by accident. 
But what an opportunity is there presented 
for wild animal photographers in photographing 
a wild and savage bull moose in his native 
haunts! Surely such a golden opportunity as 
this will not be too long neglected. Our advice 
to the knights of the camera is “Go early and 
avoid the rush!” 
