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flashed by and a Fish Hawk ojlided down, 

 and snatching one of the largest fish, flap- 

 ped quickly away. The Hawk must cer- 

 tainly have seen us, as we were standing 

 upon tlie edge of the pond not more than 

 ten rods distant, but being in all probabili- 

 ty pressed for food, it had ignored alike the 

 character of the fish and our presence. Mis- 

 takiug the bird at the distance we saw it 

 was quite impossible, and, though it re- 

 quired some time to convince ourselves that 

 so sti-iking a fact had actually occurred, it 

 appeared to us that such a thing could and 

 did sometimes take place. This was an ex- 

 treme case, and one which doubtless, never 

 has before occurred in the presence of an ob- 

 server, else we should have some record of 

 it. It is well known that the Eagle often 

 carries with him when hungry the charac- 

 teristics of the Vulture, but such is not an 

 exceptional case. Had it been one of these 

 birds in the instance mentioned above, no 

 curiosity would have been a^-oused. Per- 

 haps the above incident will call up others 

 that have been witnessed by observers in 

 other sections. 



Sporti7ig. 



Capt. Bogardus and His New 

 Trap. 



'T^HE new glass balltrap invented by tlie 

 -*: champion of tlie shot-gun, Captain Bo- 

 gardus, as a substitute for the ordinary Pig- 

 eon trap, was put to a severe test of efficien- 

 cy on the evening of March 15, in the Hip- 

 podrome, New York. The remarkable feat 

 of breaking 1000 glass balls (the substitute 

 for birds) was accomplished in about an 

 hour and forty-three minutes. The follow- 

 ing extract of the shoot is taken from the 

 Forest and ttream: " At the upper end 

 of the arena a wooden screen had been' 

 erected and covered with white muslin. 

 Some ten or fifteen yards in front the six 

 traps were arranged, with strings leading 

 to the shooter's stand, eighteen yards fur- 



ther in the rear. Capt. Bogardus used Ditt- 

 mar powder and No. 8 shot, shooting 3| 

 drachms measurement of black powder, of 

 the former and li ozs. of the latter. Many 

 of the balls were hit but not broken, which 

 we think would not have been the case had 

 the captain used Childs shot. He had set 

 his task to be done in two hours and forty 

 minutes, but it was evident after the first 

 hundred balls that he would be even aside 

 of that time. The first five-hundred were 

 shot at in 45 min. 50 sec, when an inter- 

 mission of 18 minutes was taken, the sec- 

 ond five-hundred were shot at in just 43 

 min., and the 1 3 C, necessary to make up 

 the misses occupied 15 minutes. When the 

 sliooting was over, time had been beaten 57 

 min. and 10 sec." 



On the 29th of March Capt. Bbgardus 

 gave another exhibition in the Hippodrome. 

 ■Fhis time he liad backed himself to break 

 1(300 glass balls in 100 minutes. The re- 

 markable endurance required to perform 

 this feat was even surpassed, as it required 

 only a little over an hour and seventeen 

 minutes. He made the score of 155 shpts 

 without a miss, and in all, the misses a- 

 mounted to but 28. 



Captain Bogardus is now giving exhibi- 

 tions and matches throughout the country 

 with his glass ball trap. 



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