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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 



From a paintins 



WARY GAME, 

 by Mr. Carl Rungius; gift of Mr. Emerson McMillin. 



high rank as works of art, and because they 

 vividly portray two important species of the 

 large game-animals of North America. Mr. 

 Rungius has studied both species in their haunts, 

 and these pictures represent the animals as he 

 actally saw them in the country portrayed. 



"Wary Game" is a large painting of a band 

 of six white mountain sheep rams, (Ovis dalli), 

 standing on rugged slide-rock at the foot of a 

 precipice in the McMillin Mountains, Yukon 

 Territory. Through a very dark and stormy 

 atmosphere, a patch of light descends for a mo- 

 ment, and illumines the most conspicuous mem- 

 bers of the band. 



The new painting entitled, "An Old Pros- 

 pector," represents a grizzly bear searching for 

 ground squirrels in a rocky valley of the moun- 

 tains around the source of the Athabasca River. 

 It is of interest to note here that the bear was 

 shot by Mr. Rungius in 1910. 



Most persons usually think of the grizzly 

 bear as an inhabitant of timber, and this strik- 

 ing picture conveys a valuable lesson on the 

 haunts of the animal as frequently found in the 

 northern Rockies. Photography has done this 

 fine painting rather scant j ustice, and the picture 

 must be seen to be fully appreciated. 



The paintings presented by Mr. McMillin, 

 and an elk picture, also by Rungius, hang in the 



main reception room of 

 Building. 



the 



Administration 

 W. T. H. 



OUR PROTECTED QUAILS. 



ON Sunday, December 17, Mr. Madison 

 Grant, Chairman of the Executive Com- 

 mittee, sat with the Director of the Park, 

 in the office of the latter, in the new Adminis- 

 tration Building. One window of the office 

 opens toward the beech and maple forest of 

 Beaver Valley, and the edge of the jungle is 

 only forty feet away. 



The Secretary and Director were discussing 

 plans for securing a five-year close season for 

 nuail, woodcock, snipe and other birds, when 

 suddenly Mr. Grant sprang up and called to 

 the Director to look toward the edge of the 

 forest. 



The Director quickly looked, and saw several 

 small gray forms moving about on the sunny 

 side of a red cedar stump, — only forty feet 

 away. "Qauil. A whole covey of quail. They 

 have been seen twice before in the Park. There 

 are eleven of them." "That shows the effect of 

 bird protection !" said Mr. Grant. The strange 

 coincidence was accepted as a good omen for the 

 cause of the quail. 



