ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



1069 



The matter of (•oiirse, can only he deternuned l)y 

 the courts. It would seem that the nation has the 

 right, by law, to protect migratory birds which, 

 owing to their habits, are not native of any state or 

 section. In any event it is not a matter for the law 

 officer of any state to determine. If the law officer 

 of a state can, by an opinion, nullify a federal law 

 there is no use passing national laws. — (hieaso /"- 

 ter-Ocean Dece.nber 3, 1913. 



OUR GIFT BISON HERD. 



When Pot-Hunters were killing buffalo for their 

 hides at $:2 a head, and transcontinental trains were 

 often delayed waiting for herds to cross the tracks. 

 the man would have been regarded as crazy who 

 prophesied that within fifty years buffalo born i«i 

 captivity in New York City would be transported 

 in crates to guarded preserves in the West, in an 

 effort to prevent the race from becoming extinct. 

 Yet that is what happened this week. And the move- 

 ment of fourteen individual buffaloes is regarded by 

 animal experts as the biggest thing that has hap- 

 pened in years. 



The men who are trying to keep the one distinct- 

 ive American animal from dying out have been en- 

 couraged in late years to note a slow but certain 

 increase in the various herds — some in caged cap- 

 tivity and some in fenced ranges or preserves. The 

 experts have been worried, however, by the prob- 

 able results of continued inbreeding. They have 

 feared the development of constitutional weakness 

 creating a uniform liability to some special and ac- 

 curate variety of pip, which might, thus, with a 

 fair start, put an entire herd off the map, so to 

 speak. It is to avoid this danger that fourteen of 

 the animals in the Bronx Park Zoo are being shipped 

 to the Wind Cave National Park, near Hot Springs, 

 South Dakota. The shipment includes seven of each 

 sex and the individuals run from frisky calves to 

 morose and hairy bulls. The crates will have to 

 be carried twelve miles from the nearest railroad 

 station to the spot where the animals are to be let 

 loose to find their own three-a-day in a state of 

 nature instead of eating oats from a box or peanuts 

 through a fence. Animals from other herds will 

 also be liberated on this range, and it is believed 

 that a new and vigorous strain of buffalo blood will 

 l)e established after domesticity has followed the 

 scraps of early acquaintance. Anyway, the whole 

 thing is a pretty soft snap for fourteen buffaloes 

 that were bom in Bronx Park, and have been kept 

 in paddocks about as big as a country estate in New 

 Rochelle. — Cincinnati Times-Star, Mn-emher i. 1913. 



Meetings: The Annual Meeting of the Zoo- 

 logical Society will be held in the Grand Ball 

 Room of the Waldorf-Astoria — as in former 

 years — on the evening of January 13. 1913. 



The Annual Meeting of the Board of Man- 

 ager.s will be held at the Down Town Associa- 

 tion at 3 o'clock P. M. of January 20, 1913. 



A. 0. V. Meeting: On November 10, 1913. 

 the American Ornithologists' Union gathered in 

 New York for its thirty-first annual meeting. 

 Morning and afternoon sessions were held at 



the American Museum of Natural Histor}-, 

 luncheon being served daily by the Linnaean 

 Society. On Friday, the members became the 

 guests of the Zoological Society. The Aqua- 

 rium was visited in the morning, the party leav- 

 ing in time to reach the Zoological Park about 

 one o'clock, where the visitors were entertained 

 .it luncheon at the Rocking Stone Restaurant. 

 The remainder of the afternoon was devoted to 

 the inspection of the collections, the birds form- 

 ing the center of attraction. 



Recent Arrivals: Nubian giraffe; great ant- 

 eater ; two snow leopards ; white-handed gib- 

 bon ; two yaks ; tree kangaroo ; hartebeest ; 

 Diana monkey; two squirrel monkeys; green 

 monkey ; vervet monkey ; spider monkey ; coyote 

 fox ; gray fox ; two mink fox ; sharp-nosed opos- 

 sum ; prehensile-tailed porcupine ; six golden 

 agoutis, a number of small rodents and a col- 

 lection of seventy-five reptiles ; many of them 

 rare and interesting. 



NEW MEMBERS. 

 June 21, I9I3, to Jani aby 1, 19U. 



LIFE MEMBERS. 



Blodgett, Wm. Tildon. Maxwell, Robert, 



deHeredia, C, Niles, Mrs. Florence B., 



Harriman, Mrs. E. H. Painter, Kenyon Y., 



McKinney, Glenn Ford, Pierce, Henry Clay, 



Winthrop, Egerton, L. 



CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 



Millward, Russell Hastings 



ANNUAL MEMBERS. 



Adams, John Dunbar, 

 Adler, Dr. I., 

 Baker, Charles D., 

 Baker, Charles H., 

 Bell, I.ouis Y., 

 Bernard, Pierre Arnold, 

 Boese, Quincy W^ard, 

 Bradbury, Harry B., 

 Brady, James Buchanan, 

 Butler, Charles Stewart, 

 Chamberlin, William B., 

 Chisholm, Mrs. H. J., Sr., 

 Christiancy, George A. C, 

 Church, Louis P., 

 Clark, Herbert L., 

 Cochran, G. D., 

 Converse, Miss Mary E., 

 Curie, Charles, 

 Dodge, Francis P., 

 Donaldson, Robert M., 

 Dow, Charles M., 

 Fairchild, Benjamin L., 

 Farrell, James C, 

 Goldmann, Nathan, 

 Goddard, Morrill, 



Graf, William, 

 Hackett, James K., 

 Holzmaister, Louis Y., 

 Hoyt, Miss Yirginia Scott 

 James, Henry, Jr., 

 Jenkins, A. W., 

 Keyes, Mrs. Charles W., 

 Lea, Charles M., 

 Mather, Samuel, 

 Moore, Mrs. Russell W., 

 Nickerson, Hoffman, 

 Xiles, Miss Florilla, 

 Norrie, Miss Mary, 

 Piatti, Dr. Yirgil C., 

 Porter, Alexander J., 

 Potts, Jesse W., 

 Roosevelt, Mrs. J. West, 

 Ruhe, Louis 

 Sliipman, Richard D., 

 Squire, Eben H. P., 

 Steinbrugge, Edw., Jr., 

 Suffern, Robert Adams, 

 vonDreele, W. H., 

 Wessel, Henrv. 



