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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



Z O () L o c; I C A L 

 SOCIETY BULLETIN 



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No. 13. APRIL. (904. 



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iJBEncral Officers : 



Secretary, -M.^niso.N Cmxr, H W.ii.i. Hiheet, 

 Treasurer, Percy R. Pvne, 52 Wall Street, 

 Director, William T. Hhrnadav, Zoological Park, 

 Director of tlic .Aquariiim. Ch.xkles H. Townsexd. 1!a r ti 



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 The .Mayor of the City of .W-.i, York. Ho\. Ckuki,..; I; M, 

 The President of the Dep-t o/ Parks. Ho.\. Jons J. Paij. 



CJa?? of 1905. Claris of i906. (Class 



AMERICANS AS GAME PROTECTORS. 



To-day tile people of the United States may 

 be divided into three camps. The largest con- 

 tains those who know little of wild life, and 

 are indifferent to its welfare. The next larg- 

 est contains the persistent destroyers of wild 

 life — market-hunters and fishers, persons who 

 pose as sportsmen, but are really pot-hunters — 

 and real sportsmen who shoot not wisely but 

 too well. The smallest body consists of the 

 high-class sportsmen and the humane and 

 broad-minded men and women who abhor the 

 wholesale slaughter of harmless creatures, who 

 love wild life, and who are fighting to save 

 the remnant from the annihilation which 

 'threatens it. 



Americans are so busy building cities and 

 states, amassing wealth, and destroying the 



products of Nature wherever found, they 

 have up to this date been the most supine game- 

 protectors to be found in the higher ranks of 

 civilization. 



We purchased Alaska nearly thirty )'ears 

 before the capture of Khartum from the 

 Madhi, but the wild animals of the Egyptian 

 Soudan had gan:e laws to protect them before 

 those of Alaska shared their good fortune. 

 The Egyptian Soudan has a Director of the 

 Department of Game Protecticn, but even yet 

 Alaska has nothing of the kind. 



In America, the game protectors are to-day 

 engaged in a hand-to-hand struggle with the 

 annihilators of wild life. The LTnited States 

 Senate is considering Senator Dillingham's bill 

 No. 4166 for the repeal of the whole Alaskan 

 Game Law. The only measure proposed in 

 its stead is a flimsy and utterly useless license 

 law to regulate the exportation of the hides, 

 horns and flesh of the finest wild animals of 

 .Alaska. And this is solemnlv proposed "to 

 protect deer, moose and caribou in .Alaska !'" 



To-day there is a possibility that, des- 

 pite the earnest protests of this Society, 

 the Boone and Crockett Club, the United States 

 Biological Survey, the Audubon Society, the 

 League of American Sportsmen, the Camp- 

 Fire Club and other organizations, the Senate 

 of the State of New York will pass the Hubbs 

 bill, to repeal an excellent law against the 

 spring shooting of water fowl. That measure 

 h<is already passed the Assembly, and the 

 game annihilators from Long Island, and of 

 Xew York City also, are fighting hard for the 

 repeal of the bill which now prevents them 

 from shooting li'ild ducks during their breed- 

 ing season! 



From Pittsburg to Boston the sparrow-eat- 

 ing Italians of Naples and Sicily are swarm- 

 ing afield on Sundays, killing song-birds for 

 food! These very lawless citizens now con- 

 stitute such a menace to the lives of valu- 

 able insectivorous birds that they require to 

 he specially dealt with. Around Pittsburg, 

 Columbus, and in many portions of Ohio, they 

 have become a dangerous element. On Satur- 

 day. March 20th, two Italians were found kill- 

 ing squirrels in the Zoological Park; and the 



