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float and sinker, and shedder crabs for bait. A wire snell is requisite, to prevent 

 the fish from snapping off the line. 



Oak Island^ opposite Babylon, is a favorite resort for gunners ; Rube Ander- 

 son is a good guide and boatman. Babylon is thirty-six miles from New York, 

 on the South Side Railroad. 



Bellsfiort^ a pleasant village on Bellsport Bay, is a good point for bay bird 

 shooting. Quail afford good sport in the vicmity. Fish abound in the bay. 

 There are good boarding houses, I7 to $10 per week. Reached by Long Island 

 Railroad to Bellsport station, thence stage three miles. 



East Moriches. Quail and partridge shooting in the vicinity, affords excellent 

 sport. The shooting and fishing on Moriches Bay is good, the East Moriches 

 Hotel is a comfortable house. Dogs, boats, traps, and decoys are furnished by 

 H. L. Rogers. Reached via Long Island Railroad. 



Centre Moriches is a much frequented resort for anglers and gunners. Great 

 numbers of fish and wild fowl are annually sent from here to New York. The 

 Ocean, Moriches, Long Island, Baldwin, and other houses afford good accommo- 

 dations. Yachts regularly sail across the bay to the outer beach, where the 

 Havens House is much visited for its surf bathing. 



Fisher s Island, four miles from New London, is good headquarters forfishing, 

 and snipe and duck shooting. There is a hotel there with boats and other con- 

 veniences for sport. The route is via the Shore Line Railroad, and steamboat 

 from New London or Stonington. " - 



Good Ground is one of the best points on tt& Island for shooting ducks, geese, 

 brant, yellow legs, dowitchers, ring-tailed marlins, quail, rabbits, foxes, and other 

 game. Good hotel accommodations at the Bay View House, guides, boats, 

 decoys and ever^-thing necessary furnished. William Lane or Orville Wilcox 

 will give the sportsman the best of treatment and may be addressed lor infor- 

 mation. 



Great Shinnecock Bay. Ducks are plenty in season, such as black ducks, 

 broadbills, grey ducks, pintails, coots, etc. Most all varieties of birds are to be 

 found here on the 20th October except geese and brant: their time to make their 

 appearance is from the ist to the loth of November, when they are quite abun- 

 dant. Experienced gunners at this place, men that have followed shooting for 

 thirty years. They are prepared with live stools for geese and brant, also bat- 

 teries for shore and point shooting. There is also good quail, and rabbit, and 

 grouse shooting. The Bay and Ocean View House is situated within two hun- 

 dred feet of the Great Shinnecock Bay and overlooks it. All birds passing over 

 the bay can be seen from the veranda of the hotel. This is large and affords the 

 best of accommodations for sporting men. Ammunition furnisned at the house 

 for all those that wish to save the labor of bringing it with them. Gentlemen vis- 

 iting the Bay View House will buy tickets at James Slip or Thirty-fourth street 

 Ferry, New York, for Good Ground Station, Sag Harbor Branch Long Island 

 Railroad, where a stage will convey them to the house. 



Atlanticvillc., situated at the head of Shinnecock Bay, is headquarters for goose, 

 duck and bay bird shooting. The gunners, Washington Howell and John and 

 Tuttle Carter, have a capital rig, and will be found able and obliging by all 

 sportsmen. 



Great South Bay. Noted for its fish of all descriptions, and also for its geese, 

 ducks, and snipe. Take South Side road to Babylon or Islip. Pon Ouogue and 

 Good Ground are much frequented resorts, reached by same railroad. Good 

 board and all necessary outfit of boats, stools, etc., at William Lane's, and Orville 

 Wilcox's. Board alone $1.50 per day or $8 per week. Gunning outfit, including 

 bayman. boat, board, etc., $10 per day. There is good quail shooting, also a few 

 rulfed grouse and deer in the barrens anywhere within ten miles east or west of 

 \A\\^. Deer can be shot only during the first fifteen days of November. 



Islip. Near by are the fronting ponds and club-house of the Sportsmen's 

 Club. The village is frequented in summer for its fishing and shooting. Good 

 hotel accommodations will be found here. 



North [slip is a good starting point for scrub shooting for quail. 



Merrick Bay., near Smithville, is an excellent place for shooting the great 

 head duck, geese, and brant, Jim Baldwin is an excellent guide. Charges for 

 boat, stools, and all told, $4 per day. A tavern called the Sportsman House, kept 

 by B. F. Sammis, at Smithville, is a clean, small house ; the landlord has every 

 appliance for quail, snipe and duck shooting, such as boats, stools, etc. In this 

 section the quail shooting is fairly middling, with good cover, easy walking and 

 the brush not above the middle of the body. 



Montauk Point. Excellent bay bird shooting and weak fishing. Ducks, geese 



