ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
15 
SABLE ANTELOPE 
Photograph by Elwin R. Sanborn. 
The illustrations consist of twenty-four mag¬ 
nificent, full page color plates, twenty-one beau¬ 
tiful photogravures and four distributional 
maps. L. S. C. 
Reindeer for Michigan. —From a correspond¬ 
ent in Norway we have received the following 
information: “I have now recently learned 
that sixty young animals are being shipped to 
Michigan, the state of Michigan being the pur¬ 
chaser, and further export of such animals be¬ 
ing probable.” 
MR. STEFANSSON’S “FRIENDLY 
ARCTIC” 
M r. vilhjalmur stefansson’s 
new book, “The Friendly Arctic” (Mac¬ 
millan) contains many observations on 
wild animals that will be of keen interest to 
all zoologists who give thought to wild ani¬ 
mal intelligence and habits. In fact, the author 
is a zoological explorer, and he saw and 
recorded much that is new of the musk-ox, 
caribou, bears, wolves, foxes and other species. 
He paid close attention to the comparative 
vision of arctic animals, besides which he pain¬ 
stakingly recorded seemingly everything that 
he saw in the arctic fauna. Some of this is 
quite new, and some of it confirmatory. 
that is the English sparrow. Every autumn 
these birds enter all of the hoofed stock build¬ 
ings, where there is seed from the hay, and 
then in the genial heat among the big rubber 
plants and palms, build nests and rear large 
families, thus eclipsing by several broods the 
outdoor species that must wait for the spring. 
There are several nests immediately over vis¬ 
itors’ heads in the Elephant House, and the 
daring little birds may be observed hopping 
about between the elephant’s feet, or even 
perching on the back of the rhinoceros. They 
bathe at the edge of the hippopotamus pool and 
appear delighted with their surroundings. On 
a very mild day the entire flock may leave the 
building through one of the overhead ventilators, 
but only for an hour or so. During really cold 
weather they never venture out of doors. 
The Pheasant Monograph, Vol. III .—The 
Society’s quota of 350 copies of Volume III of 
“A Monograph of the Pheasants,” by William 
Beebe, arrived on February 23, 1922, and its 
distribution to subscribers was completed during 
the following week. The work is quite up to the 
standard of the two preceding volumes. There 
are 202 pages of text, covering a total of forty- 
four forms of the pheasant family, comprising 
the Koklass (Pucrasia) , Cheer ( Catreus ), True 
Pheasant ( Phasianus ) and Long-tailed (Syr- 
viaticus') groups. 
AMERICAN ELK —VELVET SHED 
Photograph by Elwin R. Sanborn. 
