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ZOOLOGICAL SOCLETY BULLETIN 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



Mammals 



W. T. HORNADAY. 



Birds 

 William Beebe. 

 Lee S. Crandall. 



jirpartrnfttta : 



Aquarium, 



C. H. TOWNSEND. 



Reptiles 

 Raymond L. Ditmars. 



Published bi-monthly at the Office of the Society, 

 111 Broadway, New York City. 



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MAILED FREE TO MEMBERS. 



Copyright, 1916, by the New York Zoological Society. 



Each author is responsible for the scientific accuracy 



and the proof reading of his contribution. 



Elwin R. Sanborn, 



Editor and Official Photographer 



Vol. XIX, No. 5 



SEPTEMBER, 1916 



THE GREATEST VICTORY FOR THE 

 BIRDS. 



With record-breaking celerity the interna- 

 tional treaty between Canada and the United 

 States for the federal protection of all the mi- 

 gratory birds of North America, north of Mex- 

 ico, has been ratified by Congress, and is now 

 a law. It was initiated, over two years ago, by 

 Senator George P. McLean of Connecticut, in 

 a Senate resolution. At that time President 

 Wilson wrote a letter to Secretary Bryan, ap- 

 proving the idea, and requesting its advance- 

 ment. 



After a great amount of labor in Canada, in 

 which Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, of the Canadian 

 Department of Agriculture, played a very im- 

 portant part, the treaty was finally sent down 

 from Ottawa early in August, for ratificatibn by 

 this country. On August 16, it was signed by 

 Secretary Lansing and Sir Cecil Arthur Spring- 

 Rice, British Ambassador. 



By the President it was transmitted to the 

 Senate on August 22 . It went to and through 

 the Committe on Foreign Relations in a few 

 hours; and Senator James A. O'Gorman, fully 

 resolved to secure action at this session, was 

 designated to take charge of it on the floor of 

 the Senate. For several months past Senator 

 McLean has been hard at work paving a broad 

 and smooth road for its passage. 



On August 29 it was brought before the Sen- 

 ate, and quickly ratified by a two-thirds ma- 

 jority. The swiftness with which Congress did 

 its part in the matter amazed and delighted the 

 defenders of the birds. That quick action is 

 the Senate's answer to the very bitter and abus- 

 ive attacks that have been made on the federal 



migratory bird law and its defenders by Sena- 

 tor James A. Reed of Missouri, and a few of 

 his duck shooting constituents who vehemently 

 demand duck shooting in spring as a special 

 privilege. 



Once more the United States Senate has add- 

 ed to its fine and quite unbroken record in the 

 enactment of sane and reasonable wild life pro- 

 tection laws. The ratification of that treaty is 

 the most important and far-reaching step in the 

 protection and increase of birds that ever yet 

 has yet been taken, in any country ! It extends 

 the strong arm of federal j^rotection over about 

 1,022 species and sub-species of the most valu- 

 able and interesting birds of North America. 



The news, of the event of August 29, will be 

 read with thrills of pleasure by the millions of 

 farmers, forest owners, bird lovers and sports- 

 men who are interested in the increase and per- 

 petuation of the birds of North America. 



Except to Senator Reed, the people of the 

 United States owe to the President, the entire 

 Senate, and above all to Senator McLean a 

 profound and lasting gratitude. 



W^. T. HoRNADAY. 



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