GAME AND FISH RESORTS. 



Wilcox Connti/— 



Take the Alabama River steamers to Black's Bluff or Clifton, or the Selma 

 and Gulf Railroad to Allenton, or Pine Apple. Deer, turkey and quail shooting, 

 will be found along the river bottoms, and other varieties of large and small game 

 in the v»roods. 



ALASKA. 



Alaska has an area of 580,107 square miles. The southern 

 and western portions are mountainous and near the coast covered 

 with forests of spruce, cedar and fir. The Northern and Arctic 

 Ocean coast regions are level and, for the most part, barren. The 

 climate is not so severe as that of the corresponding latitude on 

 the Atlantic coast. The mean annual temperature at Sitka is 42°. 

 The zoology of the country embraces, elk, deer, polar bear, barren- 

 ground bear, grizzly bear, black bear, seal, fox, beaver, marten, 

 otter, mink, lynx and wolverine. Alaska is the nesting place of 

 many migratory birds ; geese, ducks, the canvas-back and others, 

 swans, ospreys, etc. The ptarmigan is found here. The fish are 

 of many varieties and of inexhaustible quantities, constituting the 

 chief wealth of the country. 



At the head of the salt water species stands the salmon, found 

 from Behring Straits to the most southerly point of Vancouver's 

 Island. In the spawning season the straits, bays, sounds and 

 inlets of the coast are thronged with it. From the first of June to 

 the middle of August the Stikine and Yukon Rivers are fairly alive 

 with the countless numbers hastening to the headwaters, among 

 the mountain gorges. The first salmon to visit Alaska is the chief 

 or king salmon, the onchorliynchits orieittalis of Pallas. Two 

 other species are also found in these waters, the O. lagocephaliis 

 and O. proteits, of Pallas, and the noot-glag-hoo and noog-lag-uh, 

 respectively, of the Yukons or Tinnehs. The salmon or mountain 

 trout is very abundant in the northern portion of Alaska, and is 

 apparently a constant resident, as it is found in the streams at all 

 seasons. 



The 0. saiigidnolentus, or red-fish, the O. lycaodon, or dog 

 salmon, and the sal/no purpuratiis or black salmon, of Pallas, 

 arrive in the rivers between August and October, and run for a 

 month or more. 



A sucker found here, which is called craskee by the Russians, 

 {catostoiniis teres), is quite common, and for its northern habitat, 

 quite large, averaging from four to seven pounds. A species of 

 the cottids, called ipidiik by the Tinnehs, frequents the shallow 

 streams and ponds, and is caught in large numbers by the abori- 

 gines, who scoop them out with their hands, paddles and grass 

 baskets. A small dace, also found with this, bites readily at a 



