Aw.n 91, 1381.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



225 



•wilh antelope li.'iir and devoid 

 wanting HO mi-Ii Uoafji-lrups to 

 Scon the horses were .Jriv-.n in, 

 1 Ijiii ill- woman saddle il. ' 

 Pc-nuk-wl inn to hi« women. 



1m Pc t , ■ i )■: - \v > - 1 ] 1 1 1 , l)C ia grtSti -• 

 markr.l. At litis there waaaj! 

 um is so heavy thai tin- best ii< 

 him and run ahunditd yards, 

 am onlygoing io the top of the 

 cim-nv Shoot Uu- while tow." 

 were ready, 

 I. Some three 



of siirrnps— a buffalo runner 



ClltjlDglC him ill I USC l-f a fall. 



and singling out mv favorite 

 •Saddle a horse for inc." pM 

 fvs, widrlle :i. buffalo Y 



e.l all 



(he test 



toward 



the ho- 



d:iV. m 



me oi Ih 



myself 



\\ !.■■: 



"Are j 





plied. 



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nies Hi 





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hund« 



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the hra 



se.«. datel 



rush a! 



them 



dinns 



laving " 



frig in 



it lite Ol 



head o 



iho Dai 



two hi 



mired oil 



to lly 



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to kill i he win 

 ;enei',d htOJ 



"No. no, 

 hill where 

 By Hie tin 



. ' 1 re 

 Po mik -wi- 

 ld not carry 

 ■cplicd. »i 

 i see Ap-wo- 

 wore mount, 

 started out 

 re to run that 



only going to Iho) ..... IV- 

 laughed, andqei.tly remarked 

 uilh me. 



■ we came in sight of the l.ur- 

 ecdgeol ii high level prairie. 



of the 

 • and s 



led ii 

 An 



tar, sbarp- 



fell, tl.t 



wt ba 



id. 



Un 



id i 



ids. 



no to 

 nthin threi 



heavy rttwh'u 



:k lo see 

 mired va 

 , and hi! 

 "quilt, 1 ' 



the 



a hurt. We i 

 of the while row. Il Was time 

 ; my horse several times with a 

 soon left, all my competitors he- 

 hind." But I found that the white cow was no easy animal 

 to caieii. it seemed to know that I \ias close in pursuit, 

 and left the hand in order to run faster. For a time I de- 

 spaired of gelling Close enough io shoot ; but my horse, per- 

 - 'oubled his energies, and before 

 e. Bang ! The cow dropped, 

 a. Bang! Site dropped again 

 >od still. Baiig againl 'she 

 ■g, rattling gasp, expired. Dis- 

 lorse to roli and rest. Then 1 

 I found to be like any other buf- 

 ion of light, dirty cream-colored hair; 

 w, and I bad added another fea' her to 

 my cap. After a time re-nuk-wi-um's women came up, and 

 giving them charge of the animal, I resaddled my horse, and 

 slowly rode back" to camp. The news had already arrived 

 there, and 1 found the lodge full of men, waiting to hear the 

 details of the run. Pe-nuk-wi-um was holding forth, talking 

 excitedly. "Last night," he said, "we made medicine. 1 

 asked the sun to give Ap-we-cun-ny the wh.te cow. I gave 

 him a buffalo rock, aud he wore it in his shirt. Is it not so, 

 Ap-we-cun-ny?" 



"Ah," I answered : "it is the truth. I knew I was 

 going to kill the white cow. I heard a voice right over the 

 lodse before I got up. It said, 'The white cow is Ap-we- 

 ctHMiy'a— the white cow is Ap-we cun-ny's.'" 

 "Ah," said Ph-mik-wi-uui, " I heard it too." 

 " Hi, hi, U-i-i .'" muttered the listeners. " Skoomi-taps 

 Hat-o-yi, Ap-we cun-uy "- Strong sun power Ap-we-cuu- 



jiy'S. Al'-WB-OON-NY. 



Upper Marias Uiver, M. T. 



eeiving What 1 was afti 

 long twos within easj 



ami as quickly arose n 

 and arose, hut this tii 

 dropped, and with a qi 

 mounting, 1 unsaddled 

 inspected the cow, whi 

 falo, wilh the except it 

 but it was a w'" 

 After 



THE NORTH SHORE OP THE BAY OP CHALEUR. 



A PEW lines about the fishiug ia the above locality, and 

 how to get to it. may be of some interest, to yinr 

 readers. TilB point to make for first is Campbcilton, N. B ., 

 a station on the Intercolonial K. ft. and the head of naviga- 

 tion on the bay. Within a day's drive of here are the Nou- 

 ve'le and Escuminac rivers, both famed for the number and 

 size of their sea trout, permits to lish them being obtainable 

 from Mr. John Mowat, fishery overseer a 1 : Campbcilton. 

 The best place to make headquarters at Campbellton is at the 



and the 



1 



Koya! Hot 

 capital team 

 attempt has 

 but so far, I 

 propensities 

 streams further dow 

 steamer City of St 



of the 



host, Mr. Sproule, keeps a 

 istic sportsman himself. An 

 ule to stock the Nouvclle with salmon, 

 .vithotu success, owing to the poaching 

 ople living on its banks. To reach the 

 the bay ii will be necessary to take the 

 John, which leaves Campbellton for 

 Gaspi Basin" every Wednesday aud Saturday during naviga- 

 tion. The trip between these points occupies about seven- 

 teen hours. 



After leaving Campbellton the first stopping-place is New 

 Richmond at the mouth of the Grand Cascapediac River, 

 grand indeed as u salmon river, but which, also, is reserved 

 exclusively for the us I of the Governor-General. A mile or 

 two farther on the. Little Cascapediac enters the hay. This 

 is only a fair salmon river, but full of very large sea trout. 

 It is not leased at present. 



The scenery, which so far has been very beautiful, com- 

 paring very favorably with the Firth of Clyde in general ap- 

 pearance, now becomes rather uninteresting, and about din- 

 ner time the steamer stops at Grand Bonaventure, at the 

 mouth of the river of the same name. This isa large slream, 

 leased by Mr. Domville, M. P., of St. John, N. B , but for 

 some cause or other the catch of salmon has never been very 

 large. After leaving the nexL calling places are New Car- 

 lisle, the county town of Bonaventure, and Paspebiae, Hie 

 " large fishing firms of C. Robin & Co. 

 fi., thegenial hospitality of whose agents 

 -;ahnon fishers who frequent tins coast. 

 hit Macquereau the steamer turns into 

 ;h settlement situated at the head of a 

 Odd and safe anchorage. Here are two 

 hich arc not leased, and no permits are 

 ii. Ye.y comfortable accommodations 

 ig farm-houses at reasonable ra'es. 

 Steamer passes the Grand Rabos 

 River, a beautiful slream, hut, as far as salmon fishing goes, 

 a failure, owing to the extreme clearness of the water and the 



of the 

 ier Br< 



headquarters 

 and Le Bouti 

 is welt known to all £ 

 After rounding Po: 

 Port Daniel, a Scott 

 small bay affording g 

 good trout streams w 

 necessary' tc fish thai 

 can be had at neigh 1 

 Sixteen miles further tin 



slillnr.s-s of the pools. It is, however, like all the rivers on 

 Ibis coast, asplendid trout stream. This river is leased lo a 

 Montreal ten! len. an. The Lillle P.ibos comes wtsl about six 

 miles furtlier. In this rlv. r a.e A few salmon and plenty of 

 trout, It is ..'■■'. Je.i-cd and permits ilia} be obtained from 



Twenty-six roUosfrom Port Daniel the steamei 

 C.;i..d River, a considerable fishing village at the moulh or 

 I he river of that name. TlliSis a capital S'lllncn slream, as 

 it has been well preserved for some lilleen years. It is leased 

 by two gentlemen from London, (hit. Turning Cape Des- 

 pair i he -name; next, reaches Perce with its famous rock. 

 This is (he couuty town of the comity of Uaspe, and is one 

 of the most picturesque spots on the coast, A twelve-mile 

 ride from here brings yon to the Mnlbaie or Baroehois River, 

 a tine trout stream, in which there are also salmon, l bough 

 not until late in the season. It is not leased and permi's can 

 be had from Mr. Viberl, fishery overseer at Uaspe. Leaving 

 Perce 1 lie steamer readies Uaspe Basin about, midnight. The 

 rivers running into Guspe Bay— Ihe Dartmouth, St. John 

 and Y.uk aie all leased lo American gentlemen. Le.-uing 

 tin. question of sport out of I he matter, the trip from (iasoe 

 to Cauq.liellion is well worth taking, the otllcer of the City 

 of St. John most obliging, being quite willing to land you on 

 any part, of the coast you may wish, and there is a very com- 

 fort ahle boarding house iu G as pe Basin where a visitor in 

 search of health' can live almost in luxury and recruit his 

 strength in as pretty a spot as can be found iuNorlh America. 



YlATOIi. 



YVIiERE SHALL WE GFQ ? 



"]\ yTANY thousands of hard-worked, over-worked men are 

 1VX at this time asking the above question. Merchants, 

 lawyers, editors, clerks, mechanics, a ! l are looking forward 

 to a holiday next summer., and all want to make the most of 

 it. To got away from the heated streets of the city for a 

 few days or weeks only to come back with a sense of lost 

 time ami money, not to say of being swindled out of both, 

 leaves a msery on the mind where there should be only a 

 pleasant memory. 



I am led to these remarks by a letter published in Foiiest 

 an'h Stream under date of Jan. 27, requesting "Kessmuk" 

 to indicate a pleasant and available route for a three weeks' 

 excursion in the woods. The letter is from a Ulica gentle- 

 man, who signs himself " H." 



He was at Wilmurst Lake last season, and seems to have 

 had excellent luck wi'hlhe rod, but complaiusof land sharks, 

 and did not find his excursion satisfactory. 



"II." took iu too much civilization. Wilmurst Lake is 

 private fishing, ground, and you pay for your fishing, or 

 leave your fish at the "House." Don't do it ! I would as 

 soou go hunting tame deer as fishing in private waters. 1 

 want 'to go where the wa'ers, woods, forest ireesand moun- 

 tains are free as the air I breathe; where I may fish, hunt, 

 camp, paddle and cut timber, with none to molest or present 

 me a bill. 



I think I can lay out. a route that will answer and will not 

 be too expensive, while including as much solitude, with en- 

 tire freedom aud fair tis.h 'ng, as a, reaso.mlilemaii can expect. 

 I suggest Ihe Brown's Track, Moose waters. Go in by 

 Booneville, backboard 1 no, to Moose River; from there to 

 the Forge House by buckboard, or foot it to Jones' Camp at 

 foot of f he Stillwater, and boat up the Stillwater. If you 

 bring your own boat, and it is light, the latter route may be 

 best, but it includes a heavy carry of over seven miles from 

 the Tannery to Jones' Camp. The rest is easy, 1 1 is twelve 

 miles up the Slillwater from Jones' ; by the road it is thir- 

 teen and one-half miles to Forge House, foot of Fulton 

 Chain. The first two miles, from the Tannery to the Herki- 

 mer County line, is the most execrable road I was ever On— 

 or in— for it was between wading and swimming last sum- 

 mer, although $200 would have made a decern road of it ; 

 hut the Pecksniffs who had charge of road matters refused 

 to lay out a dollar. They said there were no Lewis County 

 settlers beyond the Taunery, and they were not going to 

 spend the county Binds to accommodate pleasure seekers. 

 ignoring the fact that there was a constant influx of visitors, 

 who all left money at Booneville and Moisc River; that 

 these visitois kept up the Buckboard line, and consumed the 

 supplies that were constantly going over the road to Brown's 

 Tract via the Forge House, the money nil finding its way to 

 Lewis County, and that the guides, landlords and others who 

 operated in the Moose River country belonged for the most 

 part in Lewis County. 



Plucky little Charley Phelps who ran the buckboard line 

 worked like a beaver to get his parties through comfortably. 

 This he could not do, but he did get them through safely 

 with their multifarious traps, with no other mishap than an 

 unavoidable coating of Browns Tract mud, which was soon 

 cleaned off. 



The road from the Herkimer County line was better. 

 Men were at work on it all summer, and eleven and one-half 

 miles of the road might be called quite passable. The other 

 two miles will be very different the coming season. Jolly, 

 energetic Tom Nightingale, of the Moose River House, has 

 taken the matter iu hand, and he assured me last September 

 that tourists coming that way in the summer of '81 should 

 find a respectable road to the lakes. 



If you go to the foot of the chain by wheels you can hire a 

 boat of Jim Barrett, landlord of the Forge House. If by the 

 way of Jones' Camp hire a boat of Jones. Once at the foot 

 of the lakes with a boat the route is all before ; 

 choose. I should stop a few clays on Third Lak 

 pleasautest camp and the most desirable lake of the chain to 



my taste. It is a salmon lake, aud there i.-. D J speckled 



trout fishingwithin ten minutes' pull of the landing. Also it 

 is wit hi u a hundred rods of Fourth Lake, which is the largest of 

 the chain (1,970 acres), and is reputedthebest for salmon trout, 

 while there are many spring-holes along the shores that give 

 fine fly fishiug. "Within a mile of Third I ,ake camp, and on the 

 north side of Fourth, is the carry to the North Branch lakes. 

 These are lonely enough, and afford line fishing with excel- 

 lent camping ground^. A week in this region would be little 

 enough. Opposite Ed. Arnold's camp on Fourth Lake is the 

 cany to Big Moose. One may spend weeks on and around 

 this lake without overdoing it. But it includes four miles 

 of carries to reach it from Fourth Lake passing two of the 

 Branch lakes, on which there is good floating as well as fish- 

 iug. 



Having done Big Moose and the intervening waters come 

 back to Fourth, row up to Fifth, which is a pug-bole of ten 

 acres, carry from Fifth to Sixth, three-four! lis of a mile, and if 

 you are late enoughfor floating stop for a night or two on Sixl h. 

 ft is an excellent lake for deer, but is sometimes overdone by 

 floaters. From Sixth to Seventh, by boat, and you will find 

 solitude enough on the latter lake to content a reasonable man. 



where to 

 It was the 



If not lake the carry on the North (two miles) for Little 

 Kaglo .Hid Bay Lakes. There you may fish from the ro.ks 

 in titty feet of clear, cold water,, and, by laying bait over 

 night and U3i«g c luleai. ualch speckled trout ot three pounds 

 or niore.w ilh bi i 1 only. The bail utURf be bronglil front Sex entb 

 I ake, as there an Do nlinilOWB in liugor Lillle Eagle. Three 

 or even six weeks miel. I '■.:;. o\- ,. euly passed on the 

 ... ule. judical.''!, with sueh digressions as in fonnati id 



on the way miglil suggest. Theie an- inanv oilier lakes easi- 

 ly accessible by this route. I have mentioned those I 

 thought- best and gamiest. Supplies may be had at the Forge 

 House, al Third Lake Camp, or at lid. Arnold's on Fourth 

 Lake. 



Third Lake Camp is being renovalcd and enlarged for next 

 summer, am) will be kept, by Robert Penil of Boouvillc, Ky., 

 fly maker and dealer in fishing tackle. 



Ed. Arnold will probably keep the Jack Shepard camp 

 on Fourth Lake Mis charges are very rea-onab!e, hispeople 

 kindly and attentive, and he Bold supplies' at lower rates 

 than common. He also is a -ruble, and one of the oldest 

 ami best. 



Sam. Dunakin is another of the older guides and knows as 

 many of the Adirondack routes as any guide I found there. 

 Nearly all the Forge House guideB are competent ami faith- 

 ful to their parties. Although I never took aguide and could 

 not well do it, having a canoe with me that weighed only 

 eighteen pounds, and that I would not leave behind, I found 

 the guides intelligent, friendly and willing to give any 

 information they possessed to one going through alone for 

 the first time] 



Last season there was a rush of tourists to the east side of 

 the wilderness, and I found every camp and woodland hotel 

 overcrowded. Also the Louisville route on the west side was 

 well stocked with tourists, twenty being obliged on one night 

 to seek lodgings in the barn at Fenton's (No. 4), on the 

 Beaver. The Only quiet section I found was on Ihe waters 

 of the Moose. I do not expect to find it so quiet next sum- 

 mer, but I can easily find all the solitude I want and all the 

 trout I can use in the much decried Brown's Tract. 



Nessjiiik. 



dmnl Siptorg. 



OUR UNIQUE SPOON-BILLED SANDPIPER. 



[ Euri)i'jfji!/nn/ius pmjmiFiis (Li>rs).] 



THE U. S. Coast Survey party on board the schooner 

 "Yukon," commanded by Mr. W. II. Dall, iu whose 

 compauy the writer made a voyage on the coasls of Alaska 

 and Siberia last summer, was so fortunate as to obtain what 

 is now the only specimen in any American museum of the 

 curious little spoon-billed sandpiper. The skin is one of llie 

 treasures of the National Museum colleeiion. Most of the 

 great museums of the world are without it. 



Up to the lime of Nordeuskjold's voyage around the north 

 coast of Siberia but twenty-four of these birds in all were re- 

 corded as killed; how many of them arc preserved is un- 

 known. He found great flocks of them, but unfortunately 

 the bird was not recognized, and only a few skins were se- 

 cured, the great bulk of the birds having been served on toast 

 without regard to their distinguished identity. 



The form of the bill resembles that of the common spoon- 

 bill so closely r that Linnaais referred his type specimen to Ihe 

 genus flalaka-, yet the bird is related structurally to the 

 Triaijass, aud appears like any common little sandpiper wilh 

 the exception of its bill. 



I copy the habitat from ,: lbis," vol. v, 18G9, in which is 

 given a colored plate of the species : "Mouths of the Ganges, 

 aud east coast of Bay of Begal; Edmonstone's Id., Sau- 

 gur Sand, Saugur Id., Chittagong, Arracan, Amherst 

 in Teuasserim, Arooy, Behring's Straits, N. E. Asia 

 (Barrow U-de Scbdrr)." The species, therefore, is known 

 from the extremities of the Asiatic coast. The exact 

 locality of Barrow's si ccimen is not known. It is, 

 therefore, interesting to have the bird from a well au- 

 thenticated place. Ours was shot on the end of a sand 

 ■spit on which is the Eskimo village of Port Providence, 

 Plover Bay eastern Siberia ; it was secured for us by one of 

 thonatives du ing the interval between our first and second 

 visits to the Bay. On the same sand and gravel beach I shot 

 Actvrfivm'is minufill'i (. ? ), Pelidua aljntia arncricana, Hlrtp- 

 sihi-i intirpvc-x, Sqitatnroht hdveika and HeUruseelux incatius. 

 During the months of August and September it is said that 

 the spoon-billed sandpipers are occasionally seen on this spit 

 and always about the same place. 



While in Plover Bay on the return from the Arctic our ' 

 bird was shown to I'apt. L. C. Owcu, commanding thesteam 

 whaler Mary and Helen. Capt. Owcu at once said that the 

 same bird was brought aboard his vessel by Eskimo at Point 

 Barrow. As the bird is unmistakable, there can be no doubt 

 that the species is a member of our Alaskan fauna, and Mr. 

 Rhlgway has so recorded it in his recent catalogue of North 

 American birds on the strength of the Statement made to us 

 by Capt. Owen. 



It is to be hoped that some of the parties who are to be 

 sent to Point Barrow may collect additional skins of this cu- 

 rious bird as well as information about its habits. It is only 

 ncccssriy to remember it as resembling some of our common 

 lit! le beach snipe, but with a bill shaped like that of a spoon- 

 bill. Takletox H. Bean. 



{/'. S. National Jhrnam, April 15. 



— ,©^_ 



WrreiiR tub Birds Winteeed— New Y'ork, April 15. — 

 Y/our correspondent, John Neilson, Esq., of Quebec, one of 

 the best informed ornithologists of Canada, in a late issue o£ 

 your paper calls attention to the marked absence in all parts 

 of Lower Canada of its customary winter feathered residents. 

 As the weather there was not severer than in former seasons 

 he fails to account for their abscenee. 



Through the valuable reports of your many correspondents 

 iu the Now England and Middle States I believe I can offer 

 a satisfactory theory that will remove all cause for further 

 speculation and set the matter at rest. 



As we arc all aware, the past winter in the States above 

 mentioned has been the severest experienced for many years 

 and the snow fall unprecedented. Attracted by this favora- 

 ble condition of things Ihe more Northern species of birds 

 have been led to ired.u a xs» ■; e Southern journey and resi- 

 dence during these congenial months of colJ aud snow-. "The 

 numbers of these different species observed aud their wide 

 distribution through the sections before spoken of irresistibly 

 lead me to this conclusion. 



I myself in nry snow-shoe journeys through the forests of 

 northern New Jersey noted several species'" supposed to be 



