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taken to prevent a similar occurrence, and for 

 several years the young have been vaccinated 

 for this disease. 



Early in 1919 a number of those that had 

 been vaccinated some months before, died. 

 After a careful investigation by a Veterinarian 

 from the Bureau of Animal Industry, evidence 

 was discovered that indicated the presence of 

 this dreaded disease. It was then decided to 

 vaccinate the entire herd both young and old 

 with a recently developed culture that is believed 

 by the Bureau of Animal Industry to be a 

 certain preventive. 



The herd was rounded-up October 7th and 

 vaccinated on the 8th and gth, and about ten 

 days later were vaccinated the second time. 

 The Bureau of Animal Industry furnished the 

 vaccine and sent two of their Veterinarians — 

 Doctor Plank and Doctor Wallman — from the 

 Helena Montana office to do the work. 



Of the total herd (355) ninety were calves. 



During the progress of vaccination, five 

 calves and one old cow were injured in handling 

 and died later. This was unavoidable and a 

 remarkably small percentage of loss when con- 

 sidering the great difficulty and dangers to be 

 encountered in handling a large herd of semi- 

 wild buffalo. 



During the past year the Society has re- 

 ceived a number of books, photographs and a 

 valuable Indian buffalo lance, donated to the 

 Society by Col. Charles Goodnight of Good- 

 night, Texas. This lance was formerly the 

 property of the noted Comanche Chief Quana 

 Parker, who used it not only for killing buffalo 

 but also in murdering human beings. Colonel 

 Goodnight states that he was well acquainted 

 with Quana Parker, who in 1877 left the Reser- 

 vation near Fort Sill, Indian Territory, and 

 made a break with three hundred of his tribe 

 for their former home in western Texas. They 

 camped in the Palo Duro Canyon, near Colonel 

 Goodnight's ranch, and during this time Chief 

 Quana related the history of the lance to Colonel 

 Goodnight. Among other things, he stated that 

 it was with this lance that he killed the two 

 men who were sleeping in the wagon the morn- 

 ing of the famous fight at Adobe Walls. A 

 good account of this fight, which occurred 

 between the Comanches and a party of white 

 men — buffalo hunters — is found in the " Life of 

 Billy Dixon of Adobe Walls," who was one of 

 the party of buffalo hunters. Dixon is the 

 man who shot Chief Quana Parker in that fight, 



but the bullet was turned by striking the Chief's 

 large buffalo powder horn. 



MARTIN S. GARRETSON, 

 Secretary. 



Report of the Zoological Service, 

 Giza Zoological Gardens, Egypt. 



1. — Zoological Survey of Egypt. 



The most important feature of 1919 was 

 the completion by Mr. M. J. Nicholl of a hand- 

 list of the birds of Egypt, enumerating 437 

 forms. This much needed work was published 

 by the Government Press in February, 1920. 

 Preparations are being made for in the future 

 expanding this hand-list to a book giving a full 

 account of the birds of Egypt. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., of the British 



Museum, kindly examined and identified a small 

 collection of mammals from Egypt and Sinai. 

 Among these he found two new species of 

 Desert Mice which Major Flower had collected 

 near the Sinai-Palastine frontier. Mr. Thomas 

 described these forms as Gerbillus floweri and 

 Gerbillus bonhoteri (" Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History," Series 9, Vol, III, June 1919, 

 pages 559»5M- 



Dr. E. Hartert, of the Tring Museum, 

 described the Egyptian Partridge as a new sub- 

 species, from information and specimens 

 collected by Mr. M. J. Nicoll, under the name of 

 Ammoperdix heyi nicoli (" Bulletin, British 

 Ornithologists' Club." No. CCXLV, Vol. XL, 

 December 1919, pages 3, 4). 



2. — Giza Zoological Gardens, 



The Gardens were open as usual every day 

 throughout '19. Owing to the suspension of the 

 tramway service for three months and seven 

 days and other affairs, visitors from Cario had 

 unusual difficulties in reaching the Gardens ; 

 nevertheless, the visitors numbeied 285,917, a 

 number which has only been surpassed in three 

 previous years. 



No very important additions were made to 

 the menagerie, but the collection was kept up 

 to its usual standard, and the general health of 

 the animals was very good, in spite of continual 

 difficulties in obtaining forage and the necessity 

 of using substitutes for varicus items of food. 



