ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
MOUNTAIN ZEBRA COLT 
devote much of their spare time to the work 
of the Association. Amongst these may be men- 
tioned the hard-working Secretary, Major J. C. 
V. Roos; Dr. A. A. Schoch (the Assistant At- 
torney General of the Transvaal), Messrs. C. 
A. O. Bain, D. F. Gilfillan, Paul Selby and 
F. J. Finech-Smith of Johannesburg, T. N. de 
Villiers, O. Pirow, and A. S. Porter of Pretoria. 
Without the co-operation and assistance of these 
men I do not know how our Association could 
continue its work, but we want more help from 
members, and we want more members as well. 
The Transvaal Provincial Administration recog- 
nizes the Association to a large extent, as its 
recommendations are followed in the great ma- 
jority of cases. It also makes a small grant 
to the funds, for which we are profoundly 
thankful. 
The difficulties in South Africa are: 
(a) Our country dwellers have for genera- 
tions been accustomed to shooting where 
and when they like, and game restric- 
tions and laws are irksome to them. 
Poaching on either Government and pri- 
vate grounds, and contravention of the 
laws are not, apparently, looked upon as 
crimes. 
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(b) The enormous extent of territory still 
unsettled, or but thinly populated, ren- 
ders detection difficult, and policing in- 
sufhcient for the needs of the wild life. 
(ce) The natives, who are born poachers and 
who by traps and 
dogs, destroy an- 
means of snares, 
crowds of mongrel 
nually an enormous number of head of 
game, chiefly young animals. The Na- 
tive Affairs Department has been ap- 
pealed to time and again to try and limit 
the number of these dogs, or at least to 
force the natives to conform to the regu- 
lations, but thus far without any appre- 
ciable result. 
It will thus be seen that our difficulties are 
more than ordinary. Add to the foregoing the 
onward march of civilization and the continual 
inroads made upon the game territories, and the 
reader will begin to realize our discouragement. 
I will now endeavor to give a short account 
of the present status of some of our most 
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