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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
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OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY 
*JA PUBLIC ZOOLOGICAL PARK. *1 A PUBLIC AQUA¬ 
RIUM. THE PRESERVATION OF OUR NATIVE 
ANIMALS, q THE PROMOTION OF ZOOLOGY. 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
Published bi-monthly at the Office of the Society. 
Ill Broadway, New York City. 
Copy, 25 Cents Yearly, $1.50 
MAILED FREE TO MEMBERS 
Subscription and Editorial Offices 
ZOOLOGICAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY 
Elwin R. Sanborn, Editor 
Copyright, 1923, by the New York Zoological Society. 
0ppartmpntB : 
Mammals Aquarium 
William T. Hornaday Charles H. Townsend 
Birds Reptiles 
Lke S. Crandall. Raymond L. Ditmars 
William Beebe. 
Director of Tropical Research and Honorary Curator, Birds 
Each author is responsible for the scientific accuracy and 
the proof reading: of his contribution. 
Vol. XXVI November, 1923 No- 6 
W. H. D. LE SOUEF 
The many American zoologists who became 
personally acquainted with Mr. W. H. Dudley 
Le Souef, Director of the Zoological Gardens at 
Melbourne, on his visit to America in 1907, will 
learn with regret of his death at Melbourne on 
September 6, 1923. His untimely passing was 
largely due to an attack that was made upon 
him by two bandits actually within the pre¬ 
cincts of his zoological garden, in the course of 
which he was severely and permanently injured. 
Mr. Le Souef was one of the most noted of 
the Australian zoologists. His book entitled 
“Wild Life in Australia” is a valuable contribu¬ 
tion to zoology, and is to be prized both on 
account of the wide variety of the subjects that 
it touches and the extent of the author’s per¬ 
sonal observations. Members of the Zoological 
Society will recall the admirable paper on 
“Mammals of Australia in the Zoological Park” 
which Mr. Le Souef contributed to “Zoologica” 
in January, 1919. 
Mr. Le Souef was a prominent member of the 
Australian Arnithologists Union and enjoyed 
the acquaintance and esteem of zoologists all 
around the world. 
WILD LIFE EXTERMINATION NOTES 
A New Campaign .—The Permanent Wild 
Life Protection Fund, charged with the cam¬ 
paign work of the Zoological Society, will soon 
complete an acid test of the sentiments of the 
sportsmen of America toward its campaign to 
reduce by one-half the annual killings of game 
in the United States. Already it Is evident that 
only a small percentage of sportsmen favor such 
a measure, or regard it as necessary. In Octo¬ 
ber a long-contemplated campaign for a univer¬ 
sal “reform game law” was inaugurated by the 
issue of an illustrated poster entitled “OUR 
VANISHING GAME.” One side is devoted to 
pictorial exhibits of actual bag limits with ex¬ 
planatory text, the other to “THE ENEMIES 
AND DESTROYERS OF OUR GAME.” 
Fifty prominent conservationists are being in¬ 
vited to become leaders in this campaign. 
Copies of the poster will be supplied to mem¬ 
bers of the Society on application to Dr. W. 
Reid Blair, Zoological Park. 
The Automobile as a Game-Destroyer .—The 
showing in Nature Magazine for September 
of the automobile as a game-destroyer seems to 
have jarred the public considerably. The re¬ 
action of the newspapers, magazines and re¬ 
views was rather unexpected. It was the 
photographs of cars in many lands loaded down 
with slaughtered game that conveyed a real im¬ 
pression of the work of the new Car of Jug¬ 
gernaut. The estimate that the use of the auto¬ 
mobile in hunting has increased the perils of 
game by 50 per cent, has not yet been chal¬ 
lenged. 
That “Gulf Coast Club.”— Mr. Edward A. 
Mcllhenny, until now supposed to be a bird 
“conservationist,” In spite of his long record 
as a duck-shooter, has astonished (but not dis¬ 
mayed) all bird defenders by suddenly launch¬ 
ing a gigantic scheme for locating a 4,000-mem¬ 
ber shooting club in Louisiana in the space of 
coastal swamp between the two Louisiana State 
Game Refuges. It will be remembered that 
those great sanctuaries originally were pur¬ 
chased by Mrs. Russell Sage and the Rocke¬ 
feller Foundation, in 1912 and 1914, at a total 
outlay of $383,500. The area of land to be 
