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general, to make such rules and regulations and establish such service 
as might be necessary for the management of the game and fish re¬ 
sources of the State. The Act provided for a graduated change of 
personnel, each incoming Governor appointing one Commissioner, to 
insure continuity of policy. In 1925 the appointment of the State Game 
Warden was also placed in the hands of the State Game Commission. 
Shortly after their appointment in 1921 the game commissioners, 
with the assistance of fourteen local associations, having a total of 1,000 
members, proceeded to establish the present system of refuges, receiving 
valuable cooperation from the U. S. Forest Service in the selection and 
operation of the big game refuges within the National Forests. Since 
then, law enforcement, with the backing of the local associations, has 
improved to the extent of trebling the revenues of the Game Depart¬ 
ment. In the Silver City region there has been in successful operation 
for three years a special form of cooperative patrol in which the State, 
the local associations, and the Forest Service all pool their resources in a 
common plan for handling the big-game season. It has worked so 
successfully that it is being extended to the other big-game regions of 
the State. Predatory-animal control conducted by the Biological 
Survey in cooperation with the State and live-stock interests has con¬ 
tributed greatly to the actual improvement of game conditions. 
In general, New Mexico has built solid foundations for a system of 
wild-life management. While a few of the rare or badly depleted 
species like antelope, mountain sheep, and ptarmigan have continued to 
decrease, the principal game species have probably held their own dur¬ 
ing the last decade. With an active, intelligent body of organized 
sportsmen, in spite of many handicaps, it is safe to hope that by the 
continued cooperation of Federal, State, and private agencies the 
State’s wild life may still be fairly well conserved. 
BIRDS FIRST DESCRIBED FROM NEW MEXICO 
It is interesting to know that a number of birds new to North 
America have been discovered and described from New Mexico, mainly 
by the early explorers of the State. 
1. birds described from New Mexico which are recognized in the Third Edition of 
the A. O. U. Check-List of North American Birds, or in other publications 
since 1910. 
Species of Bird 
Anas diazi novimexicana Hu¬ 
ber. 
Buteo borealis calurus Cassin.. 
Numenius americanus occiden¬ 
talis Woodhouse. 
Type Locality Present Location of Type Specimen 1 
Near Las Cruces. Coll. Wharton Huber, Philadelphia, No. 
1928. 
Near Fort Webster, Mim- Originally U. S. N. M., Washington, No. 
bres River. 8527. Withdrawn by Henry in 1859, 
and now A. N. S. Philadelphia, No. 
1516. 
Near Albuquerque. U. S. N. M., Washington, No. 12644. 
Type destroyed in 1888. 
1 A. N. S., Collection Academy Natural Sciences; U. S. N. M., U. S. National Museum. 
