AUTHOE'S PKEPACE TO THE REVISED 

 EDITION. 



Brother Sportsmen' : 



A prefatory word of explanation is proper in con- 

 -^-^ neetion with this re-issue of the Sportsman's 

 Gazetteer. 



When I wrote the preface to the First Edition, in 1877, 

 I little thought that I was placing a stepping-stone to 

 bridge the six-years' interval from that to this. I had 

 sold the copyright to the present publishers, and aban- 

 doned literary labor for other pursuits ; and, although 

 often feeling that the book needed a thorough revision, 

 in order to bring it up to the advanced requirements of 

 present needs, it is only by persistent persuasion, that 

 I have been induced to undertake my part in placing the 

 improved book before the public. In assuming the 

 pleasant task, I am like one who returns to the threshold 

 to repeat ' ' farewell." And now, more than at the begin- 

 ning, I am convinced that just such a compendium is in- 

 dispensable to the cultivated sportsman. The best proof 

 of its usefulness and popularity is the steady demand for 

 the Gazetteer. It stands to-day the only Cyclopedia 

 of American sport. 



I trust the Sportsman's Gazetteer, as revised, will 

 meet with increased favor. It has been prepared with 

 every possible care. Professor Theodore Gill, the fore- 

 most of American ichthyologists, Dr. H. C. Yarrow, of 



