242 A SPORTSMAN'S EDEN. 



wildfowl may only be killed with an honest 

 shoulder-gun ; batteries, swivel-guns, and punt- 

 guns, are abominations to Manitoba. 



In a speech lately reported, it was asserted 

 that pheasants were now very numerous in Van- 

 couver. This is hardly the case. There are 

 pheasants there, and they are doing fairly well, 

 but want a great deal of protection, and it would 

 be well if the clauses of the game-law which 

 make it an offence to kill hens at any season, or 

 purchase pheasants of either sex, were more 

 strictly enforced. 



An immense amount of harm to the interests 

 of true sportsmen in America is being done by 

 the traffic in trophies. I alluded to this in a 

 former book on shooting on the American 

 continent (' Trottings of a Tenderfoot '). That 

 was written four years ago, and I spoke there 

 rather of the States than of Canada. The trade 

 in heads has, I think, increased, and the damage 

 done by the Stony Indians round Calgary, em- 

 ployed, I was told, by a white man who blends 

 the professions ' of Methodist minister and skalla- 

 wag ' (i.e., skin-hunter) in one person, is enormous. 

 Indians, unfortunately, as I before stated, are 

 not, as a rule, bound by the game-laws which 

 bind the white man ; and far from regarding a 

 natural close-time, a favourite dish with them is 



