ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



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kill, and out to get an equivalent for their an- 

 nual expenditure in guns, ammunition and other 

 expenses?" 



In the chapter entitled "Unfair Firearms and 

 Shooting Ethics." Dr. Hornaday directs atten- 

 tion to the ominous fact that these cohorts are 

 rapidly being armed with repeating shot-guns, 

 which will discharge six shots in six seconds or 

 less, and. worse still, automatic shot-guns, which 

 are reloaded and cocked by their own recoil, and 

 will fire five shots in four seconds, or less. Five 

 large concerns are producing these guns at the 

 rate of about 100.000 a year, and, as a matter 

 of course, the market-hunters and pot-hunters 

 are especially eager to own and use them. All 

 these facts prompt Dr. Hornaday to ask the 

 following pointed question: "Are the American 

 people willing that their wild birds shall be 

 shot by machinery?" 



The scope of the book is very broad. Con- 

 ditions in this country are most thoroughly dis- 

 cussed in such chapters as "Slaughter of Song- 

 birds by Italians." "Destruction of Song-birds 

 by Southern Negroes and Poor Whites," "Ex- 

 termination of Birds for Women's Hats." "The 

 Present and Future of North American Big 

 Game." "The Economic Value of Birds," "How 

 to Make a New Game Law," "New Laws 

 Needed; a Roll-call of the States" (four chap- 

 ters, in which are presented careful analyses 

 of the game laws of the various States, accom- 

 panied by definite recommendations for needed 

 reforms), and "Bringing Back the Vanishing 

 Birds and Game." There are also most inter- 

 esting and instructive chapters on "The Present 

 and Future of African Game," "The Present 

 and Future of Game in Asia," "Destruction of 

 Birds in the Far East" (by Mr. C. William 

 Beebe), "National and State Game Preserves 

 and Bird Refuges," "Game Preserves and 

 Game Laws in Canada," and "British Game 

 Preserves." 



The book contains an enormous mass of facts 

 and statistics, to which are lent interest and 

 verisimilitude by many half-tone illustrations 

 from life, besides drawings, cartoons, maps and 

 charts. 



Col. Theodore Roosevelt, in an extended re- 

 view of the book in The Outlook, has this lo 

 say of it: 



"This book should be studied in every legislature. 

 I commend it to women's clubs just as much as to 

 tanners' associations. It should be read by all intel- 

 ligent, tar-sighted and public-spirited mem and 

 women throughout the Union. Moreover, when they 

 have read it. let them not be content with impotent 

 indignation, but let them do all they can to act 

 on the advice it contains." (i (J. 



THE BIRDS BENEFITED BY THE NEW 

 FEDERAL LAW. 



NATURALLY the number of species, fam- 

 ilies and orders of birds that will now 

 come under the protection of the Federal 

 law becomes a matter of keen interest to the 

 public at large. Mr. Lee S. Crandall, Assist- 

 ant Curator of Birds in the Zoological Park, 

 has made a reasonably careful enumeration of 

 the migratory birds that enter or pass through 

 the United States, and his summary of species 

 is as follows : 



Game Birds 1 18 



Anseres, -16: Mergansers, 3; Ducks, 29; 



Geese, 12 ; Swans, 2. 

 Paludicolae, 13: Cranes, 3; Rails, 7; Galli- 



nules, 2; Coots, 1. 

 Limicolae, 57: Shore-birds. 

 Columbae, 2: Pigeons and Doves. 



Xox-Game Aquatic Biri:s 117 



Pygopodes, 23: Grebes, 6; Loons, 4; Puffins, 



2; Anklets, 3; Murreiets, 2; Guillemots, 



1; Murres, 3; Auks, 2. 

 Longipennes, 36: Skuas, 1; Jaegers, 3; Gulls, 



18; Terns, 13; Skimmers, 1. 

 Tubinares, 40: Fulmars, 4; Shearwaters, 8; 



Petrels, 10; Tropic-birds, 1; Gannets, 2; 



Darters, 1; Cormorants, 10; Pelicans, 3; 



Man-o'-war Birds, 1. 

 Herodiones, 18: Ibises, 3; Herons, 15. 



Hawks and Owls 27 



Rapt ores, 17: Vultures, 1; Hawks and 



Eagles, 16. 

 Striges, 10: Owls. 



Odd Birds 38 



Coccyges, 3: Cuckoos. 



Atcyones, 1: Kingfishers. 



Pici, 11: Woodpeckers. 



Macrochires, 23: Goatsuckers, Swifts, Hum- 

 mingbirds. 

 Passeres or Perchixg Birds 310 



Total Species _ 610 



GARDEN PARTY 



The Annual Garden Party, under the aus- 

 pices of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the New York 

 Zoological Society, will be observed in the Zoo- 

 logical Park, Thursday, May 8. 1913, from 

 three until six o'clock. Should stormy weather 

 prevail, this function will be postponed until 

 the next clear day thereafter. Refreshments 

 will be served. 



MEMBERS' DAY. 

 The Annual Members' Day will be observed 

 at the Administration Building in the Zoo- 

 logical Park, at 2 o'clock, Monday, May 19, 

 1913. upon the invitation of the Board of Man- 

 agers. Refreshments will be served. 



