FOREST AND STREAM 
215 
— At a recent meeting of the London Zoological Society, 
H. E. Dresser exhibited a hybrid between the black and 
hazel groase 4 
BIRD ARRIVALS ON THE HARLEM. 
West Tabus, N. Y., April fitlfc 1876. 
Editor Forest and Streak:— 
I inclose a list of the arrivals of birds which I observed in this "vicin¬ 
ity dating the spring of 1875. Although across the Harlem Hirer, this 
town is now included in the limits of New York city, My notes were as 
follows:— Mutch SOIL, Pewee (Sayoruis fuscus)\ April 8th, swamp 
sparrow; April 19t.li, yellow red-poll (Diadrceox palmaruit t) ( April 22<1, 
lionso wren; April 2oth f white-bellied swallow; April 27th, brown 
thrasher and chowink; April 3i)th, haru swallow;May 1st, yellow-rumped 
warbler; May 3d, whippoorwill; Miy Oih, solitary vfruo; May fith, least 
pewee, cat-bird and yellow warbler; May 7th, blue yellow-backed war¬ 
bler, honse wren, and redstart: May 9th, yellow-breasted chat; May 10th, 
woodtbrnsh, blue-winged yellow warbler, chestnut sided warbler, chip¬ 
ping sparrow, Baltimore oriole, king-birds and chimney swallows; May 
11th, hamming bird; May 13th, green black-capped, black-poll, Black¬ 
burnian and Capo May warblers; May 14th, hooded warbler; May 15th, 
pralrte warbler; May Kith, scarlet tauager; May 22d, bay-breasted and 
Tennessee warblers. 
I have also observed here a mourning warbler (May 25th, 1872), a Con¬ 
necticut warbler (September 14th, 1874), a Nashville warbler (May J3f.Ii, 
1874), and a worm-eating warbler (May 14th, 187-3). 
Win Timor <L Stevens. 
AnteijOfk in Maine. —M. A. Clark, Esq., of Danville 
Junction, Me., who has a hue piivate collection of ani¬ 
mals, writes us under date of April 22d:— 
“I have .iii8t received from the Colorado plains a pair of anlelopes 
(male and female) two years old this spring, and they sire ns tame as 
a cosset lamb, and to my surprise the buck is in. full horn, as 1 always 
supposed they dropped their horns in winter same as deer. 1 find by 
placing them beside my young door of the same age, that the antelopes 
are a little the largest, but their legs are smaller and more delicate than 
those of the deer. I am also just in receipt of a tsrrne beaver from 
Three Rivers, Province of Quebec, and it is a curious sight to see him 
taking Ids breakfast from a birch club.” 
Recent AuuivAt.3 at the Philadelphia Zoological^auden.— One 
young alligator, (Alligator mississi/fpiensis). Presented by William 
Trimble, Jr. T Philadelphia. One brown thrush, (Harporhynchus rufus). 
Presented by Jos. F. Vogels, Camden, N. J. One brown thrush, (H. rufus); 
one white-throated sparrow r . (Zoru>tric/iia alMcotlis). Presented by 
Louis Snyder, Philadelphia. One black iguana, (Melopocem cornu tus.) 
Purchased. Two pig-tall monkeys (Macacus ncincstvinu .'), Purchased. 
Three inncaqnc; monkeys, (M. cynomolgus). Purchased. One rhesus mon¬ 
key, (Af. mjthmeu $), Purchased. One entcJlus raoDfecy, (Semnojdth-ecus 
entelhis?). Purchased. One young alligator, (Alligator misstmppwms ). 
Presented by Jas. W. M. Cardoza, Philadelphia. One black snake, 
(Bascanion constrictor). Presented by Peter Snyder, Ccntrcbridge, Pa. 
One garter snake, (Eulainicc strtalte)* Presented by Win. T. Wiegand, 
Philadelphia, Three Canada geese, (Oernicict canadensis). Presented by 
Amos R. Little, Philadelphia. Two gray squirrels, (Sciurus cinereus). 
Presented by Mrs. E. M. Wright, Philadelphia. Two brant geese, (Ber- 
nicla bimta); one Canada goose, (B. cunudensis). Presented by D. R. 
Sandy, West Creek, Ocean Co., N. J. 
Regent Arrivals at the Centennial Aquaria.— Five thoasaud 
gallons or sea water. Presented by the Camden and Atlantic Railroad. 
One spotted tortoise* (Etnys guttata ). Presented by Milton P. Peirce, 
Wcnonab, N. J. Pour graylings, (Thymatis tricolor), Michigan. Pre¬ 
sented by J. M. Collection of water-breeding insects of New York. 
Presented by Sarah J. McBride, Mumford, N. Y. Five rock bass, ( Cere- 
to'urchU8 anew). Two sun-fish, (Pomolrs vulgaris). Three suckerB, 
(Catostomus communis ). One black sticker, (C. nigricans). One- 
(?) (Percopsis guttata). Three yellow perch, (Perea Jiavesccns). One 
roach, (Stttbe chrysoleucas ). Three ,cat-fish, (Iimelocluz catUS), habitat 
New York. Presented by W. M, Locke, Honeoye Falls, N. Y. One 
stand of Coste Hatching trays, and pr.e hatching-box. Presented by 
Mrs. J. H. Slack, Bloomsbury, N. J. Fred Mather, Superintendent. 
Recent Arrivals at tub Central Park Menagerie.—O ne 
long-tailed duck, (J/urdda glacialis)^ captured In Hudson River. Pre_ 
sented by Master Lee Clark. One mink, (Pulorious vision). Presented 
by Mr. L. Titus. One Carolina parrot, CConurus cawlimnsu). Re. 
Four prairie wolves, (Canie latrans). Bred in the 
W. A. Conklin, Director. 
<md giver 
IN SEASON IN MAY. 
Trout, Sulmo fmlinalis. Shad, Alosa. 
Salmon, Satmo nature Land-locked Salmon, Batono Closet i. 
Salmon Trout, Salino conjinis. 
For list of seasonable trout Hies for May sec our Issue of April 27tk. 
Fisn in Market.— The supply of fish on the slab 3 dur¬ 
ing the past week has been unusually liberal, and prices 
correspondingly low. A large haul of remarkably fine 
mackerel has been Inade just south of Sandy Hook, and 
the fish retail at from 10c. to 30c. each. Striped bass are 
worth 18c. per pound; smelts, I5e.; fresh Kennebec sal¬ 
mon, 85c.; California, do., 80c.; shad are in fair supply, 
'Southern fish bringing 35c.; North Rivers, 40c., and Con- 
negtieut do. 50c. each; weakfish have appeared at the east 
end of Long Island, and sell for 12e. per pound; white 
perch, 15c.; Spanish mackerel, 50e.; green turtle, 20c,; 
terrapin, $12 per dozen; frost fish, 8c. per pound; halibut, 
15c.; haddock, 8c.; kingfisb, 25c.; codfish, So.; hlackfish, 
15c.; flounders, 10c.; porgies, 10c.; sea bass, 20c.; eels, 
18c.; lobsters, '10c.; sbeepshead, 85c.; scollops, $1 per 
gallon; soft clams EOc. to 00e. per 100; white fish, 18c. per 
pound; brook trout from Canada, 50c., Long Island do., 
$1; hard shell crabs, $3.60 per 100; soft do., $2 per dozen; 
pompano, 25c. per pound. Tbe reduction in tills last 
named delicious fish, from its usual price of $1, is the most 
marked feature in the market. 
—Some striped bass of fair size have beeu taken near 
Kingsliridge. The fish find their way from the Hudson 
through Spuyten Duyvil Creek and Harlem liiver to Long 
Island Sound. 
— Seth Green has been appointed a judge of oysters at 
thp Centennial Exhibition. 
ceived in exchange, 
menagerie. 
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FISH 
By Lake and River: Francis Franeis, Field .Office, 846 
Strand, London. 
No title could be more suggestive or appropriate to the 
contents of the charming volume which has beguiled for us 
so many pleasant hours within the past twelve months. 
For years the essays and memorabilia of the veteran editor of 
the London Field have enriched the Angling Department 
of that valuable journal, to the exclusion of all but its 
favored readers; and therefore when the spirit moved him 
a little better than a year ago, to gather some of his life ex¬ 
periences and publish them in a book, we fain must bless 
the prompting of the impulse. No author has told us half 
so much of what nmybeseeu and done in the streams of 
England and the loeltB and burns of Scotland; and he does 
not imparl, or attempt to impart this information by a stiff 
treatise or disquisition; he simply starts out with his rod 
and creel at the beginning, and goes a-fishing! He travels 
from stream to stream, and from one preserve to an¬ 
other, rambling on over a long stretch of country—from 
Morpeth to the Cheviot Hills and to Solway Firth—chat¬ 
ting as he goes, sometimes to the reader and sometimes to 
himself, telling what he sees on the road, and what by the 
lake and river, just jotting down a few marginal notes, as it 
were, with hints and suggestions, find hits of advice. Noth¬ 
ing escapes his attention or comment, and we have only to 
follow him (as a gillie, if it pleases,) and give heed when 
he soliloquizes, to learu all that need be of the fea¬ 
tures of the country and the peculiarities of the people; 
how they talk and what they wear; of their ruins, legends, 
dialects, and pastimes; of the game to be found on the 
mountains and moors, and the fish that are found in the 
rivers; and the modes of capturing each and all of them. 
And most entertaining it is lo listen I There is no need to 
question; all is told before the asking. The author is volu- 
able and only stops between breaths to toss in a fly, or to 
refresh himself by a pull at the qualified water of the Dee 
or the Tweed, which he carries handy in his waist-coat 
pocket, All who care to know anything of the out-door 
attractions of the United Kingdom, and especially those 
who hope at any future time to test the quality of its heath¬ 
ers and streams, should obtain a copy of this hook. The 
instruction it imparts is beyond estimate and indispensable. 
One cannot hut mark the elasticity of this old angler’s 
step, and the vigor and exhilaration which the freedom of 
vacation and the pure mountain air scorn to impart to both 
body and mind. His buoyancy seems to float in the air; 
he scarcely touches the sward under his feet. There is 
beauty and joy in all he sees and hears, and inspiration in 
the blue sky, the carols of the birds and the whisper of the 
winds. We catch something of his blithesomeness as we 
con over the parentheses between acts. Nothing seems to 
mar his enjoyment; neither bad luck nor stormy weather 
discourage him. The rivers may be loo full, or may be 
clogged with drifl and scum; mishaps may occur; the 
awkardness of his gillie may lose him a heavy fish, or some 
other angler may have precedence on a favorite water; he 
recks not, but passes on to other scenes, whistling as he 
goes, and pencilling his memoranda in his diary. We can¬ 
not but envy the good fortune of the man who chances to 
he his companion. In one instance, after several unfavor¬ 
able days, and disappointed at last with the meagre result 
of ten wee trout that “might, with a penny piece or two, 
weigh three pounds;" we find him en route from Aherfoyle 
to Loch Chon, jaunting along the highway, with the past 
all forgotten, and absorbed by the beauties of the surround¬ 
ing country. 
“What a delicious bit of scenery it is!" he exclaims. 
“Lake upon lake, pool, brawling burn and waterfall, 
mountain and fell, rocks, ferns, heather, fitful cloud ami 
waving wood,—it is just like fairy-laud. One seems to 
want to liefiown in tbe heather with a cigar and gaze on 
it all day without moving; to listen to the waterfall, and to 
skylark and mavis, curlew and grouse cock, and drink in 
all sorts of heavenly and earthly sounds and scenes in ex¬ 
quisite and healthy laziness, ia perfect abandon to the bliss 
of complete rest of miud and body; to re-mstil into one’s 
faculties some of that essence of nature which is gradually 
worn away in the daily friction of the world. Oh! ye toilers 
and moilers among men—oh! ye paterlamillases, whose 
wearying struggle it is to keep up with the world and the 
insane requirements of society, who race with bankruptcy 
and paralysis and get beaten on the post—don’t take your 
families to the seaside, don’t be cheated by hags and de¬ 
voured by bugs, and humbugged by conventionality 
into the belief that you have enjoyed yourselves when 
you know you have beeu miserable and devoured of 
ennui, but if women will go there, send them, and come 
here yourselves for a season. So shall you have rest for 
your souls, and fortify yourselves with powers of endur¬ 
ance against the shocks of business and the agonies of Mis- 
Grundy in the future." 
Contentment and good temper, with a disposition to ac¬ 
cept the adverse with the sweet, are requisites indispensa¬ 
ble to the compieto enjoyment of a summer’s vacation and 
a full recuperation of weakened energies. He who grum¬ 
bles at weather and mischances is not fit to he included in 
tire brotherhood of sportsmen. 
Our veteran augler does not despise worm-fishing, which 
he maintains, “in very low and clear water requires a good 
deal of skill.” He says: 
“It is a kind of fishing I am rather, fond of, rambling 
along amongst the hills from wee poolie lo wee poolto, 
with mimic casaades and streams such as you might almost 
make with a good-sized ewer; Keeping carefully out of 
sight, and castiug the' worm neatly into these spots, and 
pulling out the spotted yellow-jackets from every likely 
hole, and that to an extent astonishing to the uninitiated; 
wandering on, never lied to one place for more than a few 
minutes, calling on nature without notice, and finding her 
most charming when not adorned or interfered with by art. 
It is the dolce far niente of trout-fishing, for there is uo 
bother about fires and tackle; a yard of gut—you can’t 
lose it—and a couple of books is all your stock. There 
runs a little darkling stream under that hole in the over¬ 
hanging bank or rock. You kuow that if you cast your 
worm neatly and properly into that stream, and guide it 
clear of those stones (just where the lady-fern and blech- 
num grow so luxuriantly almost in the stream.) yon will 
catch a trout of half a pound or less to a dead certainty. 
Suppose yon make a bungling cast—no matter—cast again; 
tlie only cast which is useless is that which docs not permit 
him to see the worm, or which does permit him to see you. 
Barring these two contingencies, you may cast for a week; 
and the odds are a hundred to one that he takes your worm 
as soon as he sees it. And then the walking—save the 
brisk walk home with the heavy creel at night—what is it 
but a’delightful lazy saunter from brae to brae, and cast to 
cast! Then, too, you lunch on a hard egg auda biscuit, 
as only a fisherman can, and after that lie down on your 
back in tbe heather, fern, or wild thyme, or all together, 
looking up at the ever-shifting canopy above; aud you 
smoke yout tobacco as though it were worth a guinea an 
ounce, while the laverock sings to you "Lirra la, lirra la, 
ia, la, he hu, lie liu,” higher and liigheT, till you lose him 
in the clouds. The monotonous note of the corncrake, loo, 
comes drowsily up from the lowlands, and the bees hum a 
mid-day lullaby; tbe brooklet murmurs softly peace aud 
fortgetfulness; the very "louping of the trouts” iu the lit¬ 
tle ruby colored pool below the linu yonder makes itself 
heard through all, connecting itself in a wavering, indis¬ 
tinct and dreamy manner somehow with something you 
have in hand—you arc fast forgetting what." 
No doubt, the chief delight of angling is derived from 
its associations. We could not bring ourselves to a full 
day’s work with the Tod without cloying of the sport. 
We wish we possessed the faculty of so epitomizing all 
the information which this delightful hook contains, that 
we might present it to the reader within our limited space, 
or reflect it as by a camera obscura. We can say only, in 
brief, that Hie conditions that apply to angling in Great 
Britain are quite different from those of America. Tlte 
streams are unlike, whilo the fish and the methods of fish¬ 
ing measurably differ. The expense of fishing, too, is 
very considerable, and the restrictions are not always pleas¬ 
ant, as the angler who fishes a preserve is constantly uuder 
the surveillance of the keeper, and exposed to his offici¬ 
ous criticisms and attempted advioe. 
The burns, or mountain trout streams, rise and fall sud¬ 
denly after a rain in the most perplexing manner. Though 
the best fishing is really afforded after a flush of ruin, the 
water changes several times a day. It may be bright and 
low t red and roily by turns, according as the drainings 
sweep down from the hills; and the angler must provide 
himself liberally with an assortment of worms, flies, and 
minnows, to suit the conditions. Quick-sands often sur¬ 
prise the wader, who is moreover constantly perplexed by 
weirs and dams, refuse, scum, and sheep-washings. The 
weather is capricious, even in July, and showers are too 
frequent to he pleasant. Midges, we find, are just as 
troublesome there as here; but we discover no allusion to 
the festive mosquito. Yenomous snakes are scarce, which 
is a comfort to the timid to know. The trout in many lo¬ 
calities are small, averaging not more than seven to the 
pound. 
In the salmon streams one finds a greater variety of fish 
than iu America, a fact which may or may not add to the 
pleasure of his fishing, according to his temperament. 
There arc pike, salmon, grilse, bull trout and brown trout, 
sea trout, bass, etc., and one is as liable to strike one of 
these as the other." We find, therefore, that the rod in 
general use is heavier than here; yet, while Iwo-hauded 
rods are much in vogue, the tackle and flies are of the finest 
description, and to take a good mess of fish is a creditable 
performance. The day after a flood the fish will hardly 
rise at all. Decidedly different patterns are required for 
different waters, both for salmon aud trout. In chapters 9 
and 13 will be found some valuable information in this 
respect. Wading, casting from the bank and from a boat 
is practised, according to the necessities of the case. 
Great use is made of worms aud minnows, the latter both 
live and artificial. Mr. Francis says that when these are 
preserved by salting, they answer fully as well as when 
fresh, if not even better. ' They may he kept for weeks 
until they resemble dried caplins, but fill out almost as 
well as ever, when thoroughly wet. As anglers are often 
put to it concerning the obtaining and carrying of minnows, 
this information is worth acting upon. 
A good deal of information relative to the dog and gun 
and the game of the country is scattered throughout this 
hook, and when one has finished its perusal and closed the 
covers, he feels that the author lias given him more than 
an equivalent for his money, and that he has learned as 
much about many other things as about those to be found 
beside “Lake and River." 
—There was a fly-casting contest recently, in which four 
members of the Lake City, Minnesota, Sportsmans Club 
participated with the following score:—Geo. Lemloy, 58 
feet; Gen. Israel Garrard, 50 feet; Dr. D. C. Estes, 50 
feet; Wm. Morris, 47 feet. The prize was a water-proof 
fishing jacket presented by W. H. Holabird, of Indiana. 
Out. of fifty members of the club only four came to the 
scratch, which indicates that angling is below par among 
them, or that modesty has become epidemic iu their Tanks. 
Mr. Lemly, the victor, is one of the best fly casters known. 
At the next tournament the clubs throughout the State are 
to be invited for a split bamboo rod made by Dr. Estes. 
—William H. James, the manufacturer, at 338 and 340 
Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, has sent ns some beautiful gold 
aud nickel plated trolling spoons of the “kidney" pattern, 
which show great care and nice workmanship in their 
construction. Mr. James is also the inventor and manu¬ 
facturer pf tbp new improved patent revolving blue fish 
