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THE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN'S JOURNAL. 



[.Entered According to Act. of Congress, in tiie year issi, by toe Forest and Stream Publishing Company, In the Offloe of toe Librarian of ;congress, at Washington.; 



NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1881. 



, .Yew York. 



CONTENTS. 



Bditoeul :— 



When the Ichthyophague Dines : Notoa 288 



THE SPORTSMAN TOURIST :— 



On the Larriweep ; The Gateway to the Plains 284 



Natural Hibtom: — 



Wallace's Island Life ; Migratory Birds at Quebec. ; Care of 

 Monkevs in Confinement ; Curious Habitu of a Wood- 

 pecker! - 285 



Game Bag- and Gun :— 



How Hateli Won His Bifle ; Hounding vs. Still-Hunting ; A 

 Texas Game Country ; Shore and Inland Notes ; Our De- 

 troit Letter ; Game Exportation 286 



Camp-Pike Flickekings , 288 



Sea and River Fishing :— 



Ducks, Black Bass and Maskinonge : Kindred Spirits ; Spear- 

 ing Fish in Maryland Waters : The Berlin Medals ; Bass 

 Fishing in the Potomac ; The Taylor ; Notes 290 



Fish Culture : — 



The Carp and Its Culture ; Packing Eggs for Long Journeys, 

 English Fishery Exhibition 290 



The Kennel : — 



Eastern Field Trials Club ; Sayings About Dogs ; The Ameri- 

 can Cocker Spaniel Club ; A Bulldog Bobinson Crusoe ; 

 Oapt. McMurdo's Kennel ; Fast and Slow Dogs. ." 292 



Bifle and Trap Shooting : — 



Bange and Gallery ; The Trap 293 



Yachting and Canoeing : — 



Steam Yachts j Yaohtiug News ; Cruise of the Sunshine 297 



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FOREST AND STREAM. 



Thursday, May 13. 



Spring Duck Shooting, and its effects upon the game 

 supply, is a subject which is attracting the attention of 

 sportsmen at various well-known ducking-grounds. 



"To Correspondents." — The note with this heading be- 

 low the table of contents on the fourtk page is published 

 every week for the information of all concerned, Read It. 



It Is Stated that since May 1 there have been a good 

 many snipe killed in New Jersey. The birds came on late, 

 and lingered longer than usual. It is hardly necessary to say 

 that the shooting of snipe at this date is scarcely less repre- 

 hensible than would be the shooting of quail or woodcock, 

 and is something that should by no means be permitted. 



The Prospectus of the Kittyhawk Bay Sportsman's Club 

 has been received at this office, and a few copies can be had 

 on application to us.' We learn from this document that 

 $12,000 is required to complete the purchase of the property, 

 which is already secured, and which includes some of the 

 finest shooting-ground on the North Carolina coast. We 

 shall report from time to time the progress toward final or- 

 ganization of this club. 



The Tatham Watch.— We have been shown the watch 

 given by Messrs. Tathem & Bro. as one of the prizes at the 

 coming tournament. The watch is of gold, with engravings 

 of hunting scenes on the front case. It is an elegant and 

 costly piece of work, in the best style of Theodore B. Starr, 

 the well-known jeweler of this city, and its fortunate winner 

 at the coming contest may well be regarded with envy. The 

 watph will be a most valuable and handsome souvenir of its 

 possessor's skill and luck at Coney Island. 



WHEN THE ICHTHYOPHAGOUS DINES. 



THE articlein our last issue giving the date and place of the 

 coming dinner of the Ir-hthophagi has sounded the needs 

 of the club far and wide, and friends are offering their ser- 

 vices to procure several of the required articles of diet. The 

 hellbenders are secured, the water snakes are promised, and 

 the lake proteus or "lizard," Menobrancluis, is being sought. 

 No one has yet promised soft shelled turtles, or beaver tails, 

 but they may come. 



A caterer has been found in Mr. Murray, who enters into 

 the spirit of the feast with his whole heart. He has longed 

 for such a chance to display his ability, and has experimented 

 with all sorts of strange viand". The Club welcomes him, 

 and he hails the Club as the progressive gastronomical cham- 

 pions of the century. 



Sitting on (he editorial tripod, late the other night, the 

 uncanny odors of the comi g fesst were wafted to us, and 

 wrought up by the fumes, like the Delphic priestess of old, 

 the spirit of prophecy came upon us, and we beheld the 

 gathering of the Ichthyophagi. The rhyme ran thus ; 

 When the Ichthyophagous dines 

 There'll be many a curious dish 

 Of things ne'er caught with lines, 

 And not at all like fish— 

 Steaks of porpoise and ribs of whales, 

 Salmi of muskrat and beaver tails, 

 Aspic of jellyfish, octopus £tew, 

 Shark-fin soup and gurry-gur-roo, 

 When the Ichthyophagous dines. 

 For the Ichthyophagous eats 



All things that live In the sea- 

 Slimy crawlers instead of meats, 

 Unusual to you and me. 

 Menubranchus from out the lakes. 

 Mud puppies, turtles and water snakes, 

 Devilled hell-bender with sauce hellgramlte, 

 Garfish older than trlboltte, 

 When the Ichthyophagous dfnes. 



There will come to this Ichthylc feast, 



Things that crawl or swim or squirm ; 

 The fish, the scaphlopus beast, 

 And the arenarlous worm. 

 The garrulous frog and the frisky skate, 

 The batrachlan toad-fish with flattened pate, 

 The llylng-flsh with hyaline wing, 

 Will come with sea nettles, which prick and sting, 

 When the Ichthyophagous dines. 

 The eel and the sturgeon will come, 



And the lamprey with his nine eyes, 

 The swordfish and croaking drum, 

 And the sculpln with look of surprise. 

 The gurnard will walk arm-in-arm with the dab. 

 The horsefoot will waltz with the great spider crab, 

 The sullen-eyed angler will ogle the sprat, 

 And the devil fish twine the shrimps round his hat 

 When the Ichthyophagous dine?. 

 The fiddler crabs will fiddle 



To the crowd so strange and weird, 

 And the prawn? dance down the middle ' 

 While the mussel strokes his beard. 

 The oysters win swim in cuttlefish Ink, 

 The starfish will tip the soft clam a wink ; 

 Periwinkles served m skllly-go-lee, 

 A sight worth footing It miles to see, 

 When the Ichthyophagous dines. 



When the Ichthyophagous dines 



There'll be queer prog to eat ; 

 The usual thing In the way of wines 

 And a single course of meat 

 The lobster will come In his coat of mail ; 

 Weak stomachs will shrink from eating the snail, 

 But the brave ODes will sample every dish, 

 Whether water-snake, muskrat, snail or fish, 

 When the Ichthyophagous dines. 



The date of the Coney Island tournament has been fixed. 

 The convention will be called for June 20. The Long Is- 

 land Association reports an ample prize list. The preliminary 

 preparations are rapidly being disposed of, and the Island 

 itself is assuming its festive garb. In addition to the usual 

 attractions of the State shoot, those which are peculiar to 

 Coney Island will this year offer special inducements for a 

 large representation of the interior clubs. If a delegation 

 does not even win one of the many suberb prizes, the novelty 

 of I he scene at New York's great watering-place will fully 

 repay the visitors. 



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An Extended Review of Mr. W. W. Greener's new book 

 on the gun is in type, and will be published next week. 



Provision Against Accident. — Special attention is in- 

 vited to the card elsewhere of the Travelers Insurance Com- 

 pany of Hartford. Conn. We are not disposed to rate the 

 sportsman as subject to special risk from the use of firearms : 

 but the frequency of accidents in every pursuit and avoca- 

 tion, and amid the accustomed surroundings of daily life, 

 is so great, that it is certainly the part of wisdom to make 

 some provision against the possible losses incurred. With 

 the present admirable system of the company, the failure to 

 secure a policy may present itself as a most serious neglect of 

 duty. We have no hesitation in indorsing the Travelers 

 and its methods, and commending it to the readers of Forest 

 and Stream. We have had personal knowledge of the New 

 York management of the company for more than sixteen 

 yeais, and believe it to be above reproach; the company is 

 trustworthy, and has a name for prompt and fair dealing 

 with its policy-holders. During the past year it paid out 

 11,774 claims, or an average per month of nearly 1,000. There 

 was about onepayment to every eight risks assumed, a strong 

 evidence both of the frequency of accidents and of the bene- 

 ficial working of the system, which is still further shown by 

 the fact that the total number of claims paid by the Travelers 

 is over 56,000. In conclusion, without further suggesting 

 the worth of this system of insurance, we commend our 

 readers to communicate with the New York agent, and hav- 

 ing secured the information which he is ready to furnish, to 

 judge for themselves of the merits of the Travelers Life and 

 Accident Insurance Company. 



Nebbaska Bench Show. — This show, which is to be held 

 at Lincoln, Neb., on May 17, 18, 19 and 20, under the 

 auspices of the Lincoln Sportsmen's Club, will take place in 

 connection with the seventh annual Nebraska State Sports- 

 men's Tournament. The official catalogue announces that the 

 exhibition will be for hunting-dogs only, and that the entries 

 will close, May 17, at 9 o'clock a. m. Thirty cla ses have 

 been opened, and the premium list gives $5 prizes to first 

 prize winners, and $3 for seconds. There are champion 

 classes for pointers, English setters, Irish setters, and Gordon 

 setters, one for dogs and one for bitches ; and open c'asses 

 for dogs and bitches of the same breeds. The same breeds 

 also receive recognition in dog and bitch puppy classes, and 

 in addition, there are classes, one each for Chesapeake Bay 

 dogs, Irish water spaniels, cocker spaniels, other spaniels, 

 greyhounds and deerhounds. The show will be conducted 

 under the rules of the National American Kennel *. lub, with 

 slight modifications. The awarding committee will consist 

 of Messrs. Samuel M. Chapman, J. T. McCartney and F. E. 

 Brown, who are empowered to award a V. H. C. and a C. once 

 in each class on merit. Isaac T. Webster, D. S. A., has been 

 selected as superintendent. The show promises to be a 

 success. 



The Cheap Gun Philanthropist is out again with his 

 glaring advertisements of $20 guns, which he is eager to fur- 

 nish to bumpkins and greeuies for $7 each. The President 

 (with a capital P) of a Ducking (with a capit.nl D) Club has 

 bought one of these $20 guns for $7, and thinks it fully 

 equal to a $90 arm at the most ridiculous calculation. 

 Numerous other equally cogent proofs of the excellence of 

 these arms are set forth for the edification of the Cheap Gun 

 Philanthropist's pocket. We advise those in search of a gun 

 to give the $7 arms a wide berth. 



Quaoks and Anglers. — This is an age of " magnetic," 

 "galvanic " and " electric " frauds. There are suits of mag- 

 netic clothing, which ward off disease ; electric hair-brushes, 

 tocure all the ills of modern society ; magnetic breast-plates, 

 to be worn as shields against contagion ; electric female gar- 

 ters, to develop the limbs; and now, last of all, comes the 

 electric wristlet, to strengthen the grip of the fisherman, that 

 he may handle his rod without fatigue. We have endured 

 without complaint the pretentions of the clothing, shield, 

 brush and garter quacks, but the "wristlet " wrinkle awrousos 

 owrindignation. 



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We have been shown some of the artist's proofs of the il- 

 lustrations of Mr. Thos. Sedgwick Steele's forthcoming 

 book, "Paddle and Portage," and we find them perfect 

 gems. The book, we may safely premise, will be one of the 

 most elaborate things of the kind ever published. 



