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vation of Mr. J. M. Danziger, Los An- merit Company near Monterey. The 



geles,'six elk. environment, it is believed, will prove 



This reservation is in the Santa Mon- favorable, 



ica Mountains, near Los Angeles. The Recent reports received from the vari- 



environment, it is believed, will prove ous parties to whom the elk were sent 



very favorable. state that the animals are doing well in 



2. To a six hundred acre private reser- all cases. 



vation of Mr. E. L. Doheny, Los An- The Academy has orders, which it has 



geles, ten elk. not yet been able to fill, for about 100 



This reservation also is in the Santa additional head. An effort will be made 



Monica Mountains, only a short distance to fill these orders next year, 



from the Danziger ranch, and is under It should be stated that all matters 



elk-proof fence. pertaining to the capture and delivery of 



3. To a seven hundred acre park of the elk on board the cars were in the 

 Mr. S. C. Evans, Riverside, four elk. hands of Messrs. Miller and Lux. The 



This park adjoins the city limits of actual shipping of the animals was at- 



Riverside and furnishes ideal conditions, tended to by Mr. A. L. Bolton, assistant 



4. To the San Diego City Park, curator of mammals, who performed the 

 twelve elk. rather trying duties with good judgment, 



The conditions here are not entirely as skill and entire success. Not an animal 



favorable as one would desire, but it is was lost or injured after being placed in 



believed the elk will do well. This park the cars and all reached their respective 



was regarded as a favorable location in destinations apparently in excellent con- 



which to try the experiment of keeping dition. Mr. John Rowley, curator, de- 



the elk in relatively small enclosures. partment of mammals, and Mr. Herring, 



5. To the Modesto City Park, two elk. taxidermist were on hand at Buttonwil- 



6. To the California Redwood Park low during the entire time and saved 

 Association, ten elk. for the museum of the California Acad- 



This association is the governing body emy of Sciences all the an : mals that got 



for the Big Basin reservation, which killed or fatally injured. On the whole, 



comprises some 55,000 acres. It is be- the experiment of distributing the elk 



lieved the conditions obtaining there will to various parts of the state is regarded 



prove favorable. as having been a success, and it is be- 



7. To the Del Monte Park, ten elk. lieved it will do much toward the con- 

 These elk were turned loose in the servation of this interesting species of 



large reservation of the Pacific Improve- big game. 



THE BLACK SIBERIAN HARE, IN CANADA. 



By R. H. Cowan. 



The Black Siberian Hare is the last can be produced at a very low cost and 



addition to the various varieties of rab- careful breeding will bring it to a high 



bits or hares. state of perfection. Sufficient proof for 



All admirers of this newly found this statement is found in the colors and 



breed, claim that it is going to take the shapes to which pigeons, fowl and other 



place of the wild furbearing animals, animals have been bred, 



which are fast becoming extinct, and The advantage of breeding to perfec- 



that its fur will fill a gap between the tion in this animal is greater than in al- 



very expensive Black Fox Skin, and the most any other, as two generations can 



cheaper furs, such as those of the com- be produced in a single year, because 



mon rabbit, the muskrat, etc. they breed very young. Thus, by breed- 



The fur of the Black Siberian Hare ing only from animals selected for the 



