THE XIDIOLOGIST 



hurry, to boil water for tea or coffee, or to cook 

 an egg or two. 



There are other things besides provisions and 

 a fire necessary to good cooking — a broiler, 

 stewpan. and a pot of some sort are a few of 

 them ; and after the food is cooked, plates, 

 knives and forks, spoons and cups are required 

 if the food is to be eaten in comfort. Now these 

 things are somewhat bulky and not particularly 

 light, and tlierefore study is required to so ar- 

 range matters that all the comforts are retained 

 and the bulk and weight reduced down to their 

 lowest terms. Tin is thin 

 and light, and there- 

 fore largely used for 

 camping pails, cups, 

 pans, plates, and dip- 

 pers. The granite fry- 

 ing pan is best, as it is 

 easiest to keep clean, 

 and cleanliness is next 

 to godliness in camp as 

 elsewhere. (ilass and 

 earthenware are much 

 too heavy to be used. 

 Ciraniteware plates are 

 better than tin. The 

 handle of a frying pan 

 or stewpan is always in 

 the way when close 

 packing must be done, 

 and it is well therefore 

 to have it detachable. 



The camping baskets 

 that are now sold by 

 some of the sporting 

 goods dealers and con- 

 tain nesting plates, cups, 

 spoons, flasks, etc., are 

 very good for picnic 

 parties and the like, but 

 hardly comjjlete or 

 small enough for canoe- 

 ing, skiff cruising, or for any kind of practical 

 camping out. 



A very complete outfit has been ])roduced by 

 a Brooklyn canoeist, Mr. Ward, known as the 

 Alligator Kit. Everything in it goes in one tin 

 pail, and a canvas bag envelops that. This kit 

 can be made up for parties of three, four, or 

 six. The illustration shows an outfit for six, 

 with the various things it contains spread 

 around, and to the right of the cut is the bag in 

 which everything goes on the nesting principle — 

 one thing inside of another, and so on down. 



A most practical camp kit for three, all in a 

 good-sized tin pail, is also made. It contains a 

 coffee i>ot, frying pan, stewpan, deep ]jail for 

 boiling vegetables, etc., a deep pan, and three 

 shallow pans. Besides these it contains knives. 



forks, and spoons, which fit in by the side of 

 the coffee pot, together with the frying-pan 

 handle, and three plates, which are placed on 

 the top of the pans and under the cover of the 

 all-inclosing pail. The coffee pot will hold 

 three small cups. There is still a little room to 

 spare even after all these things are in. — C. 

 BovER Vaux, in Gam el and. 



WARD DISGUSTED WITH EACiLES 



The Western Collector. 



Here he is, in the half-tone illustration (photo 

 by C. Barlow). A typ- 

 ical specimen is "Buck" 

 (H. C.) Ward, as he sits 

 rather picturesquely on 

 the trunk of the tree, 

 with a " let 'er go " ex- 

 pression adorning that 

 pipe! He looks, to be 

 sure, like a character 

 "from the " Bowery," 

 but it must be under- 

 stood that he has just 

 climbed to a Golden 

 Eagle's nest in a red- 

 wood tree one hundred 

 feet high in California. 

 As the said nest con- 

 tained no eggs, his 

 expressions thereafter 

 would not gain him ad- 

 mission to the upper 

 ten of Mil])itas; but. try 

 as he may, the camera 

 artist has been able to 

 preserve but one ex- 

 pression, and that one 

 is — " Buck's." 



The typical egg col- 

 lector of the West is a 

 good-natured, generous 

 fellow, with plenty of 

 " nerve," who will, on occasion, climb down to 

 a rope's end after anything in sight, or ascend 

 the tallest, biggest tree outside of the " Sucker 

 State." It must not be understood that the 

 Western collector is careless or unscientific, 

 for the West can claim some eminent investi- 

 gators in the science of Ornithology and 

 Oology. 



A CORRKCTION. — Mr. Wm. C. Blake informs us that 

 the sale of a California Vulture's skin, mentioned in 

 March number, was made by a friend instead of him- 

 self, and the price was ;,^40 instead of ;^45. 



Fkauus like Dr. (?) J. C. Smith, whom we exposed, 

 should be wary of plying their trade through the mails. 

 It's a slate's prison offense. 



