PREFACE. 



gun for sport, and the constant opening of new lines of 

 communication to all parts of the country, make it certain 

 that all accessible places will be brought to speedy notice ; 

 while, as for remote and difficult localities — well, if any 

 sportsman has the pluck and energy to seek them out he 

 deserves to enjoy the fruits of his perseverance. I regard 

 concealment a virtue no longer ; although I may whisper it 

 privately that with some latent consideration of the vested 

 or pre-empted rights and prerogatives of old-time sports- 

 men, I have purposely refrained from indicating many 

 places where the woodcock, the snipe, the trout, and the 

 salmon, have their sequestered haunts. These shall be 

 held as sacred from intrusion as the penetralia of the 

 Vestals. 



I have only to add that I have been materially assisted 

 in the preparation of this work by Dr. H. C. Yarrow, of the 

 Smithsonian, Dr. D. C. Estes, of Minnesota, Dr. G. A. 

 Stockwell, of Port Huron, Michigan, and Geo. Bird Grin- 

 nell, of the Peabody Museum at Yale College. Mr. J. H. 

 Batty prepared the chapter on Taxidermy, and Messrs. 

 Joseph Woodward and Chas. B. Reynolds have given 

 valuable service in compiling the Guide. 

 Fraternally yours, 



Charles Hallock. 

 New York, June ist, 1877. 



