. Zoological Society bulletin . d Boa;4 Ringhals; Puff Adder; 2 South American Rattle-snakes; Horned Rattlesnake; 2 South AmericanStriped Snakes; Green Tree Snake; Egyptian Cobra;3 Horned Vipers; 2 Sharp-nosed Snakes; Fer-de-lance; 2 Golden Tree Snakes; Butler Garter Snake;158 Snakes collected in Sullivan County by R. 5 Surinam Toads; 13 Marine Toads; 4 Indian BullFrogs; 2 White Axolotls; 4 Hellbenders. A GIFT OF ANIMAL PAINTINGS. IN due process of development, the ZoologicalSociety will eventually possess a collection ofanimal paintings and sculptures, for whichaccommodations alrea
. Zoological Society bulletin . d Boa;4 Ringhals; Puff Adder; 2 South American Rattle-snakes; Horned Rattlesnake; 2 South AmericanStriped Snakes; Green Tree Snake; Egyptian Cobra;3 Horned Vipers; 2 Sharp-nosed Snakes; Fer-de-lance; 2 Golden Tree Snakes; Butler Garter Snake;158 Snakes collected in Sullivan County by R. 5 Surinam Toads; 13 Marine Toads; 4 Indian BullFrogs; 2 White Axolotls; 4 Hellbenders. A GIFT OF ANIMAL PAINTINGS. IN due process of development, the ZoologicalSociety will eventually possess a collection ofanimal paintings and sculptures, for whichaccommodations already exist in the two gal-leries of the Administration Building that noware occupied temporarily by the Heads andHorns Collection. As a suitable beginning for the picture col-lection. Mr. Emerson McMiHin3 a founder ofthe Society, has recently presented two largeoil paintings by Carl Rungius. which make anexcellent beginning for the proposed art collec-tion. They were selected first because of their 838 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. From a paintins WARY GAME,by Mr. Carl Rungius; gift of Mr. Emerson McMillin. high rank as works of art, and because theyvividly portray two important species of thelarge game-animals of North America. has studied both species in their haunts,and these pictures represent the animals as heactally saw them in the country portrayed. Wary Game is a large painting of a bandof six white mountain sheep rams, (Ovis dalli),standing on rugged slide-rock at the foot of aprecipice in the McMillin Mountains, YukonTerritory. Through a very dark and stormyatmosphere, a patch of light descends for a mo-ment, and illumines the most conspicuous mem-bers of the band. The new painting entitled, An Old Pros-pector, represents a grizzly bear searching forground squirrels in a rocky valley of the moun-tains around the source of the Athabasca is of interest to note here that the bear wasshot by Mr. Rungius in 1910. Most persons usually think of the grizzlybe
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