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BROOK TROUT FRY 



AND EGGS 



MC bHVC XOX sale in their season Brook Trout Eggs and Young Fry, also 

 yearlings and half-pound trout for stocking streams and ponds. We have 

 been unable to fill all our orders for yearlings this season, but having now increased 

 our facilities we expect to be able to furnish yearlings in quantities to suit customers. 

 XimC QUatantCe out e^OS ^^ ^^ ^est quality, full count and properly packed. 

 We also guarantee safe delivery of yearlings. We make special prices on eggs and 

 fry to Fish Commissioners. Correspondence solicited. Address, 



J. W. HOXIE & CO. 



Carolina, Washington Co., R. I. 



Persons ordering Eggs should do 

 so early, as we begin shipping In 

 December. 



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THE FISHES OF NORTH AMERICA, 

 COLORED AS IN LIFE. 



By ■William C Harris, Editor of THE AMERICAN ANGLER. 



ii rpHE FISHES OF NORTH AMERICA" is 

 I issued in forty monthly parts, each part con- 

 -*- taining two fish portraits on heavy plate pa- 

 ner, size 12x19 inches. This publication, which may 

 je said to be the life-work of Mr. Harris, who has 

 spent many years in its preparation, occupies a field 

 entirely its own in ichthyic literature. In fact, no 

 previous publication has appeared that attempts to 

 cover so large a field, or present so great a number of 

 portraits of American fishes, eighty or more of which, 

 colored as in life, will be given in the book, which 

 will also contain about 1,000 drawings in ink of differ- 

 ent species of fish. 



The portraits of fishes are first painted in oil, at the 

 moment they are taken from the water, before their 

 color tints have faded, then lithographed on stone in 

 colors, of which as many as fifteen (15) different tints 

 have been required to reproduce the exact tone and 

 mellow transfusion of color so frequently seen in 

 manv species of fish when alive. So closely has the 

 oil efifect been followed that an expert cannot distin- 

 guish the painting from its copy at a distance of ten 

 feet. This accuracy in reproduction of the canvas 

 renders the lithograph still more attractive when 

 framed. A full set of these portraits forms an art col- 

 lection, which as works of reference, will become in- 

 valuable. 



The cost of this work, when completed, will be at 

 least fifty-five thousand dollars ($55,000). The paper, 

 press-work, type and general mechanical execution is 

 the best that can be obtained, and neither labor nor 

 money will be economized in the effort to make the 

 publication unequalled in angling or ichthyological 

 literature. 



This work, while educational to the student of 



Natural History, appealing directly to the tastes and 

 intelligence of every one interested in the literature 

 of animated nature, is issued primarily, for the craft 

 of anglers, of which the author has been a member for 

 more than a third of a century. In this connection 

 the -Neiv York Herald^ in an ex'tended review of Mr. 

 Harris' work, states : 



"The fisherman who sees any part of this superb 

 work will resolve to own it all, even though he has to 

 sell part of his outfit to get the money." 



Of its standard value as a text book on the natural 

 history of fishes. Professor S. Garman, of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., writes 

 the author : 



"I am much pleased with the appearance of your 

 new book. There is no reason why your splendid 

 venture should not prove a most gratifying success. 

 Finished in thestyle m which it is started, it will be a 

 work of permanent value, one that will not go out of 

 date with the time that brings it to light. 



Dr. David S. Jordan, of the Stanford Universit , 

 California, also writes : 



"lam delighted with the first instalment of yo • 

 book. The Rocky Mountain trout is as natural as lii : 

 — a thoroughly admirable painting." 



Subscribers can pay for a single number as issued, 

 or for such numbers in advance as they may desire ; 

 the latter method being adopted by manv to avoid the 

 trouble of small monthly remittances. Payments can 

 be made by drafts on New York, post office or express 

 orders, or by registered letter. Price of complete work 

 (40 parts, 80 portraits) when paid at time of subscrip- 

 tion, iso.oo. Price per part, as issued, $1.50, postage 

 paid. Ten (10) parts now ready for delivery. 

 Address 



THE HARRIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, 29-33 W. 42d St., New York, 



