ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



HERE IS a quartette of horned toads from Texas. They 

 are poor little orphans and must be very hungry because 

 not know whether to feed them ice cream or stewed tripe. 

 They have wept all day and pleaded to be adopted by some 

 nice keeper who would feed them the proper grub and put them 

 in proper company. 



THEREFORE we are sending them to you asking that you 

 listen to their cries for a fireside and perhaps a wife 

 or two. Please remember that these little guys are regular 

 Texans with a natural dislike for Mexicans. You will there- 

 fore please keep them as far as possible from any gila 

 monsters, chukawallas. peon chihuahua dogs or any other of 

 your boarders that you think they will not warm up to. 



Their names are as follows: Old Col. Bo 

 Winfleld Scott, Esmerelda Hirchberger. 



Sam Hust 



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A GIFT FROM THE ARTISTS OF THE "NEW YORK JOURNAL". AND THE LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



SNAKE HUNTING WITH AN AUTO. 



The Curator of Reptiles has returned from 

 a pathfinding trip to Ulster and Sullivan Coun- 

 ties. The country investigated is rich with 

 ledges that are generously inhabited by rattle- 

 snakes and copperhead snakes. In the past we 

 have found it necessary to drive by horse or 

 go on foot on our collecting trips for local rep- 

 tiles. The new state roads, however, will ren- 

 der collecting a quick and simple process. A 

 fine and quite wide cement state road now ex- 

 tends from Kingston, slopes and encircles the 

 great Ashokan reservoir, thence extends as 

 smooth macadam into the heart of the Catskills. 

 A quite new state road extends from Newburgh, 

 crosses Sullivan County, and ends at Cochecton 

 on the Delaware. These roads lead through a 



country of many conditions, embracing river- 

 valleys, lakes, swamps, foot-hills and mountains. 

 Along them mav be found every species of rep- 

 tile inhabiting the state of New York, and the 

 greater number of amphibians, as well. 



In the prospecting trip to study the course 

 of these roadways, a series of nearly fifty rep- 

 tiles of eight species was collected in two days' 

 time. 



Rattlesnakes are particularly numerous, but 

 despite their generous occurrence in Sullivan 

 County, not a record of a snake bite was re- 

 corded. The result of the Curator's trip will 

 render it possible to maintain our local collec- 

 tion of reptiles and amphibians bj' one or two 

 short trips with an automobile each summer 

 over the area described. R. L. D. 



