THE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN'S JOURNAL. 



[Entered According to Act ol Congress, In the year 1SS1, oy the Forest and Stream PuDUshlng Company, In tue Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.] 



NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1881. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial :— 

 A Growing Interest ; Revision of the Pacific Coast Salmonito; 

 The Refrigerator Again ; Notes 3 



The Sportsman Tourist : — 

 Quail Shooting in "Virginia ; Trouting in the Vale of Arno ; The 

 Log of the Favorite ; Pipes and Smoking 4 



Natural History:— 



Domestication of the Ostrich ; A Homed Doe ; Horns of the 

 Moose and Deer ; Swiftness of Birds on the Wing ; Curious 

 Squirrels ■ A Curious Belief ; Winter Birds 6 



Game Bag and Gtjn :— 

 The Flight of a liille Ball ; Repeaters vs. Single Shooters ; The 

 Proposed Amendments ; The Gun Tax on Long Island ; Shoot- 

 ing in Oregon ; The Michigan Association ; Thoughtlessness in 

 Handling Guns ; Notes ; Meetings of Game Associations. . 7 



Sea and River Fishing : — 

 The St. Clair Cluh ; An Hour on Lake Delaware ; The Automatic 

 Reel ; How to Bait for Bass ; Fish Pestilence in Florida ; Pro- 

 posed Changes in the Fish Law 10 



Fish Culture :— 

 Protection of Fishes in Lake Michigan ; Salmon Eggs in Milt ; 

 Do Quinnat Salmon Die after Spawning? Introduction of the 

 Gill Net in American Codtisheiies ; Notes 13 



The Kennel :— 

 The English Pointer ; Jockeying at Field Trials ; A Clever Field 

 Dog; Retrieving gpaniels ; The Cocker Club ; Notes: Kennel 



Notes ; Kennel Management 13 



Rifle and Trap :— 



Range and Gallery ; Shooting Matches 17 



Yachting and Canoeing :— 

 Registration of Small Canadian Yachts ; Mv First Canoeing 



Cruise ; Flagship of the S. F. Y. C. ; Yacht Stoves 17 



Answers to Correspondents 18 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1881. 



A GROWING INTEREST. 



THE present number of this journal, which is the first of 

 our sixteenth volume, contains more matter than any 

 of the 390 issues which have preceded it. A more 

 compact type has been adopted in several of the de- 

 partments, whereby an additional amount of reading, equiva- 

 lent to two pages, is furnished every week. 



This is substantially an enlargement of the Forest and 

 Stream. 



Such a step has been made imperative because of the 

 broadening of our field and consequent greatly increased dc- 

 niaud upon our space. It has been found impossible to com- 

 press into the space at our command the contributions sent 

 to us each week by our friends, and we have therefore de- 

 termined to increase the amount of matter furnished to our 

 readers. 



In the initial announcement of this journal, seven years 

 ago, it was stated as the aim of its projectors to make it "a 

 medium of useful aod reliable information between gentle- 

 men sportsmen from one end of the country to the other. " 

 That purpose has been accomplished. The columns of the 

 Forest and Stream are to day the recognized repository of 

 all that pertains to legitimate field sports. Its correspond- 

 ents represent every State and Territory in the Union and 

 every Province of Canada. The Fobbst and Stream has 

 gathered its riches from the uttermost parts of the earth. 

 During the past year we have published letters from Alaska 

 and from South Africa, from Russia and Australasia. 



The diversity of professions and occupations represented 

 by those who read the paper and contribute to its columns 

 affords a suggestive commentary upon the very general in- 

 terest taken in the pursuits of the rod and gun. Men of all 

 classes and of all occupations read the paper'and contribute, 

 each one his mite, to add to the general fund of good things 

 which we offer to the great constituency which it reaches. 



The departments of the Forest and Stream are now con- 

 fined strictly to the specialties represented in the table of 

 contents. It is the only paper in the world devoted exclu- 

 sively to these subjects, and presents more reading of a ster- 

 ling character on each one of these topics than has ever been 

 attempted by any other journal of field sports. 



The editorial policy of the Fores 1 !' and Stream is 



guided by the single purpose to advance the interests of 

 its constituents by contending for that which is in accord 

 with genuine sportsmanship. The paper is honest, inde- 

 pendent and fearless. It claims and will always exercise 

 the right of exposing the pretension of a dangerous fraud 

 when it becomes cognizant of it ; and if in the pursuit of 

 such a policy bitter opposition is provoked, there is yet the 

 satisfaction which ever attends the discharge of duty and the 

 knowledge that by a manly course we have gained the in- 

 creased respect of our patrons. 



The paper has no secondary interests to serve. It will not 

 permit its columns to be used fc>r bolsteriug up the sale of in- 

 jurious articles, nor is it paid to advance any one strain of 

 dogs to the front. 



We make here a kindly acknowledgment of the innumer- 

 able and courteous expressions of good will and esteem 

 which come to us in our mails. We try to deserve such ex- 

 pressions, and to have the good will of all men. We strive 

 to treat all alike and all well. We may sometimes, in at- 

 tacking a principle, be unable to separate it from the indi- 

 vidual who represents it, but we have always endeavored to 

 keep the personal element out of our columns. 



In providing these increased facilities the expenses of pub- 

 lishing the Forest and Stream have been largely augmented. 

 The change is our earnest that w T e mean to keep abreast of 

 the times. Whether or not the publishers are justified in as- 

 suming this expense will depend altogether upon how the 

 change is appreciated and substantially indorsed by the fra- 

 ternity of American sport3men. 



REVISION OF THE PACIFIC COAST 



SALMONID.E. 



WE recently had the pleasure of meeting Prof. D. S. 

 Jordan in the basement of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion where he was arranging and labeling his recent valuable 

 collection of Pacific coast fishes, and the conversation natur- 

 ally turned to the vexed question of the number of species of 

 the numerous salmon family of thai region. Many of our 

 readers are aware that some thirty or more species were de- 

 scribed by the earlier workers in this field who gave distinct 

 names to the different sexes and ages, to say nothing of nam- 

 ing skins and specimens which could not readily be placed 

 anywhere in their already full list. Later workers have had 

 the advantage of a great number of specimens, and it is a 

 fact worthy of note that in this last revision Prof. Jordan 

 and Dr. Bean working from different points have arrived at 

 the same conclusions. 



There are five salmons, four trouts and one red-spotted 

 trout on the Pacific coast. Suckley's name Oncorhynchux 

 (hook-jaw) will stand as the generic name of all the salmons. 

 The name Salm-o, of Linnasus, will be the generic name of 

 the four black-spotted trouts, and Salcelmm, Richardson, the 

 generic name of the red-spotted one. 



The salmons are: The "King salmon," Oncorhync7ius 

 ehouyeha (a Russian name pronounced chow r -e-cha), formerly 

 0. quinnat, it having been found that the fish to which the 

 Indian name quinnat was applied is identical with the aliouy- 

 cha formerly described by some Russian naturalist under this 

 name. 



" Silver salmon," 0. kisutch. 



The "Dog salmon," 0. keta. 



The "Hump-backed salmon," 0. gorbusfta. 



The " Red salmon," 0. kmnerlyi. This latter fish is now 

 known to be identical with the famous "Red fish of Idaho," 

 as specimens were received by Prof. Jordan directly from 

 our correspondent, Capt. Bendire, whose articles on the red 

 fish attracted so much attention from our readers. It is also 

 the "red fish" of Alaska, and identical with the 0. nerka of 

 Walbaum, which is merely the grilse form of it. The vastly 

 different appearance of the not uncomely female from her 

 slab-sided, hideous mate is certainly an excuse for the mis- 

 take of former investigators in making two species of them, 

 the female being fat and fair, while none but a dog or a starv- 

 ed Indian would touch the famished, fiendish looking males. 

 The male grilse of this species bears little resemblance to his 

 respected parent, and so he was given a distinct cognomen. 



The black-spotted trouts are: "Mountain trout," Salmo 

 purpuratus ; '• Steel head," 8. gairdnmi; the " Rio Grande 

 trout," S. spUumH; and the "Rainbow," or "California 



trout" 8. irideus. The single red-spotted trout is the 

 " Dolly Varden," Saltelinus malma. 



It will come hard to write chouj/cha instead of quinnat, to 

 which our fishculturists have so long been acdustomed, but if 

 science says that the fishes are the same and that the 

 Russian name was first given, of couse quinnat must be rele- 

 gated to a synonym and we must sneeze out chmc-e-cha — ca- 

 chew I 



THE REFRIGERATOR AGAIN. 



AT the meeting of the Long Island Sportsmen's Associa- 

 tion to-morrow night, the proposed amendments of 

 the New York game law will be brought before the members 

 for their indorsement. 



Among the amendments talked of by the committee, hav^ 

 ing the revision in charge, is one which will allow game 

 killed in season and stored in refrigerators to be sold out of 

 season. 



We have already pointed out the pernicious working of 

 such a law 7 . It is not necessary to rehearse the arguments 

 now. The views expressed by this journal have been in- 

 dorsed by individual sportsmen and game clubs throughout 

 the ^State. The opposition aroused is serious, active and 

 determined. Out of deference to this decided and unequivo- 

 cal disapproval of the vast majority of clubs coiiipos- 

 ing the State Association, and for the sake of reasonable 

 game protection, it is to be hoped that this amendment may 

 not even be brought before the association to-morrow night. 



If it is presented the Long Island Sportsmen's Association 

 will gain for itself credit throughout the State and country by 

 refusing to sanction it. 



Thk American Journal op Science. — With the January 

 number the American Journal of Science begins the twenty- 

 first volume of its third series. As for many years in the 

 past, so now it is the first authority on matters of science in 

 this country, and yields to no periodical in the world in im- 

 portance and value in its own field. 



The Journal was founded in 1818, by Professor Sillirnan, 

 and as the scope of scientific research has since that time 

 been growing wider and wider, the influence wielded by this 

 monthly has been constantly increasing. It ended its first 

 series of fifty volumes as a quarterly in 1815, and its second 

 series of fifty volumes as a two-monthly in 1870, since which 

 it has been issued as a monthly. The twelve numbers of the 

 year make up two volumes of 480 pages each. Among its 

 contributors are numbered all the leading workers in science 

 in this country and many of the best minds among European 

 investigators. 



The January Journal contains an important article by Pro- 

 fessor Loomis, entitled Contributions to Meteorology, illus- 

 trated by three plates; an account of the Albany 

 Granite of New Hampshire and its Contact Phenomena, 

 by G. W. Hawes; Theory of the Constitution of 

 the Sun, by Charles S. Hastings; Review of Pro- 

 fessor Hall's Devonian fossils of New York, by Charles 

 Barrois ; Earthquake at the Philippine Islands of July, 1880, 

 and other papers. The miscellany contains as usual a great 

 amount of new and interesting matter. 



Western Rifle Association. — It is proposed for the en- 

 couragement of long-range shooting in the West to organize 

 a Western Rifle Association, with headquarters either at 

 Chicago or Milwaukee. By all means let us have such that 

 our shooters at Creedmoor may be able at last to find out and 

 meet the long-talked, but rather mythical marksman of the 

 prairies. Nothing would please the Eastern riflemen more 

 than a real East vs. West contest, and even in the Wilwaukee 

 Rifle Club there are a sufficient number of long-range experts 

 to makeup a good team ; but all the time let it be borne in 

 mind that we have a "National Rifle Association of Amer- 

 ica." 



Modestv Would Be Becoming in a young and inexperi- 

 enced editor, but we do not always look for it in older men. 

 "Virginianus," who writes of pipes and smoking, is a vet- 

 eran editor and should therefore have no hesitation about 

 seeing his name in print ; but he forbids our publishing it, 

 even in acknowledgment of the box of curiously carved and 



