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shooting; woodcock, partridge, quail and rabbit; last two most abundant: Nov. 

 and Dec. best; livery $3 p. d.; hotels $1.50 to $3 p. d.; no professional guides; 

 country diversified; a few owners object. 



Drakes ville (D. L. & W.) Adjacent land; partridge, quail, rabbit, woodcock 

 and snipe; Nov. best; livery $3 to $5 p. d.; guides, with dogs, obtainable; country 

 wooded and rocky; shooting very fair and owners do not object. 



East Newark (D. L. & W.) Hackensack meadows 2m.; English snipe, duck 

 and reed birds; Sept. to March best; country wooded, some wet and hilly; good 

 shooting; owners do not object. 



Etna (N. Y. L. E. &; W.) There are a few partridge, a number of quail, rabbit 

 and squirrel on grounds 2 m. from station; early part of Nov. best; livery cheap; 

 hotels and guides reasonable, the latter owning bird dogs; country open, wooded 

 and dry; a few owners object and charge for privilege; our correspondent writes: 

 "The last season was good for quail and rabbit; numbers of coon and opossum; 

 but few partridges." 



Pairyiew (N. Y. L. E. <fe W.) Hackensack meadows and river; Englewood Creek 

 and Palisade Mountains; the meadows and river are near station, the Palisades are 

 two miles distant; duck, rail, snipe and reed birds on the meadows, river and creek, 

 and some partridge (ruffed grouse), woodcock, quail and rabbit on the Palisade 

 Mountains; duck and rail are most numerous; Sept., Oct. and Nov. are the best 

 months; no livery needed; boat and pusher $3 p. d.; the charges for guides are $2 

 to $3 p. d.. and some of the guides have trained bird dogs: the grounds are open 

 meadows, mud flats and large tracts of cat-tails and salt grass: toward the Palisades 

 open fields and on them rocks and woods; on grounds away from town the owners 

 of lands do not object to shooting; rail and duck shooting is excellent in season; it 

 would be well to have a selected guide to telegraph when a "flight of birds" is on. 



Franklin Junction (L. & H. R.) Adjacent farm lands; quail, rabbit, partridge, 

 woodcock and squirrel; first two most numerous; Nov. and Dec. best; hotels $1.50 

 to $2.50 p. d.; country hilly and rocky; a few farmers object; shooting good. 



Gloucester City (P. & R.) Newton creek and vicinity; rail and reed bird; first 

 most plentiful; Sept. and 1st Oct. best; hotel $2 p. d. : boatman $2.50; non-resi- 

 dents must have license from West Jersey Game Prot. Ass'n. 



Hackensack (N. Y. O. & W.) Diiring rail season (Sept.) the shooting along the 

 river is very good; no livery needed; boats and pusher $3 p. d.; hotels $2.50 p. d.; 

 a few rabbit, quail and partridge may be found; owners do not object. 



Hamburg^h (L. & H. R.) Skinner ridge of Hamburg h Mountains, and land bor- 

 dering on Walkill river; woodcock, quail, squirrel, partridge and rabbit; last two 

 most plentiful; July for woodcock, Sept. and Oct. for others; livery very reasona- 

 ble; hotels also; guides not needed; dogs can be had in town; country wooded, 

 wet and hilly; owners do not object 011 above named grounds. 



Lakewopd (C. of N. J.) The shooting grounds about 2 m. from station; 

 quail, rabbit, duck and pheasant; first two most plentiful; Nov. best; livery $5 p. 

 d.; guides, with bird dogs and trained hounds, $3 p. d. ; country dry pine woods; 

 good shooting. 



La udis ville (P. & R.) Adjacent lands; deer, fox, rabbit and small game; first 

 plentiful; Oct. 15th to Nov. 15th best; hotel $1 p. d.; country swampy and level; 

 good shooting and but few farmers object. 



Lincoln Park (D. L. & W.) Good shooting reported at Pine swamp and Bagin- 

 fly y z m. each from station; quail, partridge and rabbit; first most abundant; Nov. 

 and Dec. best; hotels $1.50 p. d.; no guides or dogs; country dry and wooded; 

 owners do not object. 



Little Palls (N. Y. L. E. & W. and D. L. & W.) Davenport Mountains 1 m.; 

 lands adjacent to Egypt station 4 m.; the mountains for partridge, Egypt for quail, 

 woodcock and rabbit; July and Oct. for woodcock, Nov. and Dec. for quail, etc.; 

 livery $2.50 to $3 p. d.; hotel $2 p. d.; country hilly and open, generally dry; 

 shooting fair; good snipe shooting in "The Big Piece" 4 m. distant; owners do not 

 object, 



