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be obtained from the above bureau. Only those 
who can readily distinguish the different kinds 
of birds should undertake to make returns for 
their localities. 
GOOD WORK. 
O F great service to zoological science—though 
to the average man quite unknown—is the 
work being done by Zoological Societies 
everywhere throughout the world, in the study 
of diseases of animals. In the United States each 
year interesting accounts of this work are given 
by the pathologists of the various Zoological So¬ 
cieties, of which the most important are usually 
published in the annual reports of the New York 
and Philadelphia associations. The animals that 
die in the Parks are examined, the cause of death 
sought for and often discovered, and the disease 
studied. Animals in captivity necessarily live 
under highly unnatural conditions, and—no mat¬ 
ter how earnest the efforts to follow nature— 
are subject to a thousand accidents and diseases'. 
The continued study of these diseases cannot 
fail to teach us many things, which, as time goes 
on, will at least enable us to prolong life in cap¬ 
tive animals far beyond anything that we know 
at present, and may have still more important 
results. 
It is well understood that the disease most 
fatal to many tropical animals, and it might al¬ 
most be said to most captive animals, is tubercu¬ 
losis. On the other hand, epidemics, sometimes 
arising from a known cause, and sometimes with¬ 
out any cause that can be detected, occur in Zoo¬ 
logical Gardens, as happened not so very long 
ago when an epidemic destroyed almost the whole 
primate collection of the New York Zoological 
Society. Certain diseases of the digestive organs 
are often very fatal among mammals. During 
the year 1915 in the Philadelphia Zoological So¬ 
ciety there were not' less than three epidemics 
among birds, in which quail, parrots, and water- 
fowl were affected. In two of the cases no cause 
seems to have been detected, but among the par¬ 
rots a bacterium like the bacillus of roup was 
found. On the other hand, the birds that died 
did not present the appearance of birds dying 
of roup. 
Another useful service performed by these Zoo¬ 
logical Societies, and one of particular interest 
to persons who are studying the propagation of 
wild life, is the breeding of wild animals, which 
is constantly going on in these Gardens. There 
is nothing surprising about the breeding of rumi¬ 
nants, for all the deer and many bovines readily 
breed in captivity. So, too, with many birds and 
with many reptiles. On the other hand, the rear¬ 
ing of an emu and a penguin in the New York 
Zoological Park are noteworthy achievements, as 
are also the rearing of a tapir and one or two 
other species at Philadelphia. 
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