ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



1493 



BOY SCOUTS' BUGLE CORPS 



Twenty-eight trumpeters sounded the call to the 



colors as the flag was raised. 



Gleason, 1st Sergeant; John J. Rose, 2nd Ser- 

 geant. The Company will be drilled in use and 

 care of the rifle by the Director of the Park. 



The first duty of the Guards will consist in 

 establishing a night patrol of the entire Zoologi- 

 cal Park. A squad of armed men is on duty 

 continuously from sunset to sunrise, and the 

 public is warned by fifty printed notices to leave 

 the Park before sunset in order to avoid danger. 



The northeastern room of the Primate House 

 has been taken as the Guard's Armory, and in 

 every respect the Park is now on a war footing. 



In order to provide against the calamitous ef- 

 fects of higher and yet higher prices for the 

 vegetable food necessary to the maintenance of 

 our hoofed animals, every acre of tillable land 

 in the Park that can be spared is now going 

 under cultivation. We are planting the crops 

 that will yield the most food per acre. 



All the members of the Zoological Park force, 

 152 in number, have signed the pledge of loy- 

 alty to the President and the flag, and have vol- 

 untarily offered to contribute one hour per day 

 of extra service, in the general preparedness 

 cause. Leaves of absence must be reduced one- 

 half, but it is hoped that no further reduction 

 than that will be necessary. 



The great majority of the men of the Zoolog- 

 ical Park are married men, with families of chil- 

 dren ; but in case married men are called to the 

 colors, they will not be found among the slack- 

 ers. The great majority of the Zoological Park 

 men are earnest advocates of universal and com- 

 pulsory military service. 



HUNTING REPTILES IN THE SOUTH* 



By Raymond L. Ditmars. 



There is a marked difference in the fauna and 

 flora of the coastal and inland regions of our 

 southern Atlantic states. In the northern states 

 there is little indication of different physi- 

 cal conditions beyond the superficial strip of 

 salt marsh near the sea. Our northern rivers 

 traverse practically similar country from 

 source to outlet, while in the South, it is along 

 the course of the great rivers which flow into 

 the Atlantic that the physical conditions form 

 a veritable antithesis from source to the sea. 

 The Savannah River is typical of these con- 

 ditions — and relates to the observations to fol- 

 low. Rising in hilly and rocky regions, it tra- 

 verses a full one hundred miles of country that 

 at a glance appears much like New England. 

 About forty miles from the sea, the deciduous 

 foliage gives way to lofty and vast stretches of 

 pine, and shortly the coffee-colored river enters 

 an avenue of wooded swamp of varying width. 

 This swamp continues to the sea. In parts it 



*This article is the third of a series covering the 

 observations made during an extensive collecting 

 trip in the low grounds of Georgia and South Caro- 

 lina. 



