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and New Jersey. There has also been an 

 increase in the numbers of small cod in 

 the shore waters north of Cape Cod. 



The downward trend of the lobster 

 fishery had, up to a year or two ago, 

 been apparently uninfluenced by the an- 

 nual planting of large numbers of lobster 

 fr}' ; but there is now considerable evi- 

 dence that the increasing output of the 

 hatcheries is bearing fruit. Fishermen 

 are reporting more under-sized lobsters 

 than they have seen in many years, and 

 in various places where fishing had been 

 abandoned because it did not pay, the 



fishermen are now making good catches. 

 It is difficult to understand how the an- 

 nual planting of the progeny of 20,000 

 to 30,000 lobsters can fail to influence 

 the available supply for the market, even 

 if only one lobster fry in each hundred 

 planted reaches maturity ; and the Bureau 

 has occasion to feel gratified that the de- 

 cline has now been positively arrested in 

 localities where large numbers of fry 

 have been deposited for a series of years, 

 and where there was absolutely no reason 

 to look for any betterment, if nature had 

 remained unaided. 



HUNTING BIG GAME IN PORTUGUESE 

 EAST AFRICA* 



THE big animals of Portuguese 

 East Africa are admirably de- 

 scribed in a recent work by Mr 

 R. C. F. Maugham, who was for a num- 

 ber of years British consul to that coun- 

 try. This section of the continent 

 abounds in game, but curious and un- 

 accountable gaps are sometimes observ- 

 able in families common to neighboring 

 regions. For instance, no ostriches are 

 found, although numerous in parts of 

 the neighboring British protectorate. The 

 crested eagle is likewise absent. 



"Of pigs, we have at least two — the 

 grotesque wart-hog, with his large, curl- 

 ing tushes, and a smaller red hog, prob- 

 ably the Potamochosrus chceropotanms or 

 P. africanus. The former (Phacocharus 

 crtliiopicus) is very numerous throughout 

 the drier, sandier districts, and in the 

 mountains of both Cheringoma and 

 Gorongoza I have seen them in large 

 numbers. Their unsightly warts, two on 

 each cheek, are much larger in the boar 

 than in the sow, as are also the tushes, 

 which in the former animal sometimes 

 grow to such a size as to end their points 

 up to a line with the eyes. They are 

 verv fierce when cornered, and I remem- 



ber on one occasion a large boar I had 

 wounded suddenly charged down upon 

 a gun-bearer with a perfect cyclone of 

 shrill grunts, and would assuredly have 

 reached and injured him had not one of 

 his comrades, who stood by, hurled a 

 spear with great skill ; this checked the 

 animal's onset and enabled me to plant 

 a fatal bullet behind his shoulder. The 

 other variety is much smaller and, with 

 a rather vivid red collar round the neck, 

 possesses a long, thin white mane and a 

 curious beard-like growth of white bris- 

 tles under the jaw, which turn upward 

 as though they were sedulously brushed. 

 The body is of dark reddish brown, and 

 this animal is, I may add, an exceedingly 

 welcome addition to the sportman's 

 larder. 



"That enormous bald, hideous offal- 

 eater, the formidable beaked marabou 

 (Lcptolipiis) , abounds in the interior, 

 consorting with vultures, turkey buz- 

 zards, fishing eagles, and the profanum 

 vnlgjis of the scavengers. Nobody who 

 has not witnessed the spectacle could 

 imagine the astounding rapidity with 

 which all these birds, and many more, as- 

 semble from nowhere in particular when 



* Portugese East Africa: The History, Scenery, and Great Game of A'lanica and Sofala. By 

 R. C. F. Maugham. With Map and illustrations. Pp. 340, 6x9 inches. New York : Imported by 

 E. P. Dutton. 



