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tM* play took place within a few hnndred yards of myself «Dd frfend> 
and we were watching it with opera glasses, so that we had a perfect 
View of the performance. I think the seal's efforts at thus decoying the 
galls lasted about two hours; aud although we did not see him succeed 
in capturing liia game, we did see him catch one old gull by its tail 
feathers, bat they pulled oat and the gull escaped. The whole scene 
was intensely Interesting to me. At first it looked like play,.but before 
It progressed far it was evident that it was not that alone, and the skill¬ 
ful way in which the seal managed hia “toiler” was deserving of better 
success. I have orter heard oar shore gunners assert that seals would 
take down wounded and dead ducks, but had always Telt disposed to 
take their statements cum grano nails, although I have often seen seals 
flWittt up anti gaze curiously at both my (lead aud wounded ducks. The 
aeul ranks high in the brute creation, but this exhibition places him fur¬ 
ther up In the social order than I have been in t he habit of considering 
bim. Have aay of your leaders seen a similar exhibition of this 
penalty for decoying, or was this instance a sporadic or accidental 
of taking on the attributes (and wiles) of human kind? M 
Recent Arrivals at the Philadelphia Zoological Garden.— One 
mocking-bird, Mimas polygloltus; presented by Mrs. L. Giiietwlute, 
Philadelphia. One lamprey eel, Petmmyson marinus; presented by H. 
R, Allen, Brides burg, Pa, One garter snake, Eutaima sirtalis; pre¬ 
sented by R. H. Lee, Jr., Philadelphia. One banded rattlesnake, Oro- 
Lalus durissus; Presented by Wm. Bowron, Philadelphia. One long- 
tailed »lcer, OH’VUS leucunts; presented by Hugh Mc.Uvaitie, Philadel¬ 
phia. One garter snake, Eutaima sir tads; two speckled tortoises, EniyS 
guttata; one mud tortpise, Einosler/wn pennsylvamcum; one musk tor¬ 
toise, lSUmothcp,rus odmatus; one salt water terrapin, Ehnys terrapin; 
presented by Joseph M. Wilson, Washington, D- C. One Fournier's 
capromys, Capromyspilorides; presented. Two spider monkeys. AMes,' 
purchased. One oppossmn J)idelphys virginiana; presented by E. T, 
FentoD, Philadelphia. One adjutant, ZtploptUus argala; purchased. 
One salt water terrapin, Emys terrapin, prescuted. One woodchuck, 
Arciomys m nox, presented by 8. F. Platt, .Norristown, Pa. One honud 
toad, Pkrynorosoma cornnta, presen led by J. KanTman, Philadelphia. 
One pine snake, Pituophis melaiwlsucfjs, presented by Geo. Crunuier. 
West Creek, N. J. One bald eagle, Halmlm Imeocephalu*, presented, 
Thirteen horned toad, Phynosoma cornuta, presented by F. R Brown, 
Philadelphia. Two great horned owls, Bubo virginianus, presented by 
Thos. JBerotler, Doehuu, Pa. One great horned owl, B. mrginianvs; 
two screech owls, Scops asio, presented. Two crow-blackbirds, Qtrfs- 
-calus purpureas, presented. One Fremont's black snake, Bascauion 
Fmnonlii, presented. Two black snakes, B. constrictor, presented by 
Master H, L, Verts, Philadelphia. One Patas monkey, csrcopUhecus 
ruber; one green monkey, C. cnllitrichus; one squirrel monkey, Saima- 
ris sciureu; two weeper capuchins, Cebus capucinus; two brown mpu- 
tjhiue, G\ fatudtus; one guinea baboon, Cynocephalus sphinx; one spotted 
ckvy, Ccdognys pacu; one ocelot, Eelis partialis; three coatis, Nama 
nasica; two collared peccaries, Ikcotgtes tujac-u, purchased. 
Arthur E. Brown, General Superintendent. 
Khobnt Arrivals at the Centennial Aquaria.— Five thousand 
gallons seawater, by J. J. Gardner, Mayor Atlantic City, N. J. Two 
loggerhead turtles, C/ulone caouana; fifteen green turtlos, G. midas; 
Six spotted torioises, Emys gutatia; seventy-nine salt water terrapin, 
E. patastris; one snapping turtle. Ghelonura serpentina; one king 
crab, JAmulus poj/gphtetnus. By Eugene G. Blackford, Fulton Market, 
New York. Three paddle fish, Polyodon spatula; two blue cafe, Prme- 
lodus caruUmns; two lake sheeptiead, Haploidotutus grunniens; by 
Thomas W. Joy, Diamond Market, Pittsburgh, Pa. One spotted ray, 
Paid ocellata; one spider crab, Libinia canaliculala; one toad fish, 
Batrachm tau; mussels, sbelte, etc. By Camden & Atlantic Railroad, 
Fred Mather, Superintendent. 
leu nttd 
FISH IN SEASON IN JUNE. 
Trout. Salma fonlinalU. Shad. Alosa. 
Salmon, Sahno salur, Land-locked Salmon, (Salmo Gtovcri. 
Salmon Trout, Sulmo confinU. Grayling, Thymallue tricolor. 
Black Bass, Micropttrje nigricans. 
ELIES IN REASON FOB JUNE. 
I/mcthorn, No. 11—Body, t Lining black; feet and bead, black; wings, 
bright hyaline. 
Shoemaker, No. 10.—Body, ringed alternately with light-gray and sal¬ 
mon; Teet, dark ginger; wings, the mottled gray of the mallard, aod llic 
mottled of the woodcock mixed; setae, mottled woodcock. 
Mack June, No. 10.—Body, peacock’s herl; feet arid wingB, black. 
Dark Stone, No. 8 and 9.—Body, dark brown; feet, yellow brown; 
wings, luteons. 
Governor, No. 10.—Body, peacock,s herl; feet, dark red hackle; wings, 
made of the darkest part of the bittern's wing, or brown lieu. 
Green Drake, No. 7.—Body, while posterior, hair ribbed with black, 
green-yellow, mottled with brown; seise, dark biown. 
Brown Drake, So. 7.—Body, feet, aud wings, a golden yellow brown; 
setae, dark brown. 
Haven, No. M,—Body, feet, and wings, black. 
Wren Fly. No . 9.—Body, clay-yellpw; feet, made from the scapnlary 
feathers of the English Wien or quail; witigB and setm, mulled widgeon. 
sojourn in Maine, to tlie Androscoggin -waters, where he 
will cast his fly. 
—Gaspereaux are quite plentiful on the north shore of 
New Brunswick this season. 
—Accounts from Chatham, N, B., indicate that salmon 
will be plentiful in the Miramichi this season. Two 
boxes were shipped from Miramichi Station on Monday 
29lh May, for Boston. Our correspondent says they were 
the first of the season, Eleven-pound fish were seiliDg for 
$1.25 on Chatham street on the Saturday beffiro, and at 
present date sell for $1. 
i pro- it New York — The AtlironddCjls, May 30 fit, — Season behind 
case hand. Trolling for lake trout with fly, spoon, etc., has 
not been as good as formerly, owing to the cold weather 
and excessive high water, although in the Upper Saranac 
trout have been taken, weighing from 6 to 16 pounds. I 
find registered at Martin’s Messrs. Tilestou and Mudge, of 
Boston, S. Arnold, Keeseville, N. Y., E. B. and II. Smith, 
Buffalo; at Bartlett’s, Dr. W. W. Ely, Rochester, C. K. 
Jenkins, Salem, Mass., Dr. J. K. Ronyn, Keeseville, Col. 
T. J. Hoyt, New York. Very few sportsmen in the woods 
yet, but a few days will undoubtedly find the number in¬ 
creased. O. P. Q. 
New Jersey. — K,tushy's Ashley Mouse, Barncyat Inlet, 
Juno 1st —The following is the score of catches of blue- 
fish as far as your correspondent could learn this week; 
27th— W. H. Lippencott, Philadelphia, 32; Rev. John 
Street. Beverly, 165, 28th and 29th—Wm. Southard, N. 
Y-, 144; E. F. Byrne, N Y., 40; J. H. Cost, N. V., 40; 
Capt. Jessie Birdsdall, 10; jpa.pt. L. Malcrom and party, 
78. Some seven or eight other parties fmm New York and 
Philadelphia were out during the week and averaged 60 
per boat. J. M. Atwater'and II. E. Atwater look 65 blue- 
flsh averaging three pounds in less than two hours. The fish 
are small* about three pouuds. Only one school has en¬ 
tered the inlet. At time of writing the gulls are seen 
outside the beach iu large numbers, which indicates the 
presence of fish, and as some of our coasters passed large 
schools of blue-fish, eight to ten-pouurters, off Cape May 
tut the 28th inaf., are preparing for them on next flood tide. 
Black-fish and sea bass are plenty and running large 
size. B- 
^ Pennsylvania— Hairisburg, June 5/7t.—No shad caught 
here yet. Up the Juuiata, at Newport, forty miles above 
Honesburg, Susquehanna shad have been caught in small 
numbers. The black bass anglers are waiting impatiently 
for the opening of this sport. Bass are plenty, and some 
of them very fine. Audubon. 
Philadelphia., June 5th.— After many days the anglers 
have a chance to try to catch the black bass iu the Schuylkill. 
From the great number I see jumping, and the small num¬ 
ber caught the stock is not likely to be soon exhausted. 
Two rotls look nine on Decoration Day, which is no recom 
mendatiou to law abiding anglers. Two other rods got 
nine on Thursday. That seems sO far to he about the 
average catch. Sculls. 
Canada— Chatham, N. B., June 2d.—I had a party made 
up for a raid on the sea trout on the Queen’s birthday, hut 
it rained on the 23d, and that, added to the snow water 
made by the very warm Sunday previous, caused a heavy 
fresbet. Fishing is out cf tbe question until the river 
lowers about five feet. A few trout have been taken, but 
1 do not expect there will be good fishing until, say 5th 
June. In three weeks from that time there will be 
rare sport. D. G. S. 
Newfoundland — Harbor Grace, May 18th. —The ice still 
fills our harbor and bay, but by all accounts the coast is 
pretty clear. It is probable that I shall visit Green Bay iu 
July, and I will gather all the information I can about 
birds, animals, fish,-&c., for Forest and Stream. We 
have large trout in many of our ponds, some of them 
weighing three pounds; also, our sea trout are very large, 
some as large as small codfish. They make a strong but 
hearty meal. • O. 
Movements of the Fishing Fleet.— The number of 
fishing arrivals reported at this port the past week has been 
62, 12 from the Banks, 44 from Georges, 4 from maekerel- 
ing trips South, and 2 from shore fishing trips. The re¬ 
ceipts of Georges and Bank cod-fish are light for the sea¬ 
son, the latter being taken promptly for export, and the 
stock of Georges remaining small. The mackerel fleet 
have commenced to arrive, with small fares, the receipts 
to dale being about 500 bills,, which found ready sale at 
$4 75 and $6.75 per bbl,. as to quality, unpaoked. Fresh 
halibut has beeu in goed receipt, aud piices rule low.— 
Cape Ann Advertiser, May ‘Nlth. 
Fish in Market.— Fish are very abundant, and prices 
low. We quote:—Striped bass, 20c, per pound; bluefish, 
12c.; salmon, Kennebec, 45c,, California, 25c,; mackerel, 
8c. to 15c. each; shad, 50c.; weakfisli, 10c. per pound; 
white perch, 15c.; Spanish mackerel from Norfolk, 30c.; 
green turtle, 15c.; terrapin, $12 per dozen; halibut, 15e. 
per pound; haddock, 8c.; kingfish, 20c.; codfish, 8e.; 
hiackfish, 12c.; flounders, 10c.; porgies,8e.; sea bass, 15c.; 
eels, 18c.; lobsters, 8c., sheepshead, 15c.; scollops, $1 per 
gallon; soft clams,40c. to 60c. per 100; brook trout, $1 per 
pound; hard shell crabs, $3 per 100; soft do.; 50c. to $1 
per dozen; red snappers, 15c. per pound. 
Salt Water.— Weakfisli are being taken iu numbers 
in the Great South Bay, just inside of Fire Island Inlet. 
The bait used is a No. 2 squid, kept just off the bottom. 
The fish run about six pounds in weight, and very uniform 
in size. Bluefish are also being taken just inside the bar, 
with the squid. The fish, however, are small. Chumming 
has not yet commenced, as the fish are not fairly in the 
hay. 
—We learn that the ice left Rangely Lake, Maine, on the < 
27th of May last, and that a day or two after a Six and a 
half pound speckled trout was caught iu the stream in 
front of the Oquossoc club house. Also, a two pound land 
locked salmon was caught about tbe same time from 
Rangely stream, the first stranger of any size that has been 
caught from the recent importations into those waters. 
—Dr. J. P. |Ordway, President of the Massachusetts 
Anglers’ Association, left Boston last week for a month's 
A Angling for Shad.— Mr. John P. Motley, of Warren 
county, New Jersey, gives the State Grmlle some facts rela¬ 
tive to angling for shad tiial will be new to most of our 
tenders. The theatre of Ids experiments was the Delaware 
River. But Mr. Motley did not catch the shad with flies, 
but with bait, with which he had remarkable success. He 
says this success was owing to his adapting the bait to the 
habits of the fish, the young shad, from the time they are 
hatched until they pass dowu into the bays or oceau, where 
they remain until old enough to return for spawning, feed¬ 
ing on small inseols occasionally, when these insects fly 
near, and almost touch the surface of the water. We often 
see them leaping above the surface when the weather is 
favorable, and catching guals that are within their short 
reach. But when they get to deep water, where they re¬ 
main until next seasou, their food is infusoria—animalcules 
that constitute the greater part of the slimy growths that 
cover almost all submerged substances. Mr. Motley goes 
on to say.— 
“The shud has a small, tender, delicately formed mouth, 
and a very flexible tongue, fit to receive and appropriate 
such matters as are suitable, and to reject others that are 
not of a kind to enter into the stomach. The selected 
matter is highly nitrogenous, and always present in the 
water. It makes the shad independent of the accidents 
that must at times cause a scarcity of food with fish that 
prey upon a frequently scarce and more uncertain kind oi 
food. [This thought commands attention.—E d ] 
“The shad is not intended to leap iroru the water, or 
rush after any bail, when lie has attaiued a size beyond 
feeding on gnats that are flitting oyer the shallow margins 
he has to travel in going down tbe river to the sea. This 
much I write to account for my failure altogether with 
flies. T prepared a bait adapted, as I thought, to what the 
fish required. I still had doubt whether the shad would 
take it, as he was on his way up the river, not to eat, hut 
Tor the purpose of propagation. He had started from his 
Ocean home fat and vigorous, with accumulated force 
enough to carry him through, with the little addition he 
might perhaps receive from the fresh water infusoria that 
he might imbibe by the way. This idea was strengthened 
by the fact that shad are latter caught below Philadelphia 
than farther up the river. They are not as firm in fibre 
and delicately lasted as at Trenton or Easton. Exercise in 
fresh water absorbs fat, hardens the muscle, and heightens 
the flavor. I prepared a glutinous mass of Irish moss 
iOhondrus crispvx), gluten from wheat flower, oyster juice, 
iibrino from hullocks’ blood, and powdered sulphate of 
barytes. The last article being tasteless, insoluble, and 
heavy, was added to give weight to the compound. All 
these articles were well mixed and ground together, suffi¬ 
cient oyster juice being added to Boften and discolor the 
Irish moss. I rolled tbe mass into sticks, like maccaroni, 
dried with a gentle heat, and ground up into fragments as 
coarge as Dupont’s ducking powder. My hooks—No. 6 
Kirby’s—were whipped on brownish-green linen snoods of 
ten inches length; the snoods were fastened at intervals of 
a tool.on a line of the same color. The three hooks at¬ 
tached to the line were covered thickly nearly to their 
points with the preparation in its moist state, and then 
dried until the coating became hard, so that in dissolving 
slowly it might adhere for a long time. Thus prepared, I 
tried my first experiment in deep water below the first 
island down stream, from the mouth of the Pohatcong, 
near the Belvidern Railroad. The night previously, as a 
luft, 1 had sifted a pint or more of the powdered prepara¬ 
tion into the water at the head of the eddy, and anchored 
a coarse strainer, cloth bag, containing about the same 
quantity at the same place. Owing to the barytes, the 
powder thrown into the water sank down and remained on 
the bollom to dissolve slowly. In the morning I drifted 
gemly down the river, and anchored my boat noiselessly 
about twenty yards above the pool. With a small gourd 
for a float, giving five feel for the depth of the lowest hook, 
1 paid oul line until the float was about four yards below 
the cloth bag. 1 had not long to wait. The float began to 
hob, and was soon uuder water. 1 tightened the line, and 
found a flsli of peculiar action was hooked. His whole 
ellort was to sound, to run to Uie bottom, from which the 
slightest pull would bring him back, i thought it must be 
a very shy fish, with a tender mouth, and a small caudal 
flu iu proportion to his size, for he seemed to have but little 
propelling force. After some careful handling I was en¬ 
abled to bring the fish up to the side of the boat and laud 
it with a uet. To my great satisfaction, it proved to be a 
four pound shad, a me!tor, as fine a fish as one need wish 
to see. That morning, in less than an hour, 1 caught, six 
others iu Uiu same way—two melters and four roe shad; 
two of the last weighed five and a half pounds each. During 
this hour’s fishing the preparation hail hardly all dissolved 
from tlic IiooIib. 1 have been out twice Bince in the early 
morning and have had equal success.” 
i( New Hirst), Ot., May SG, 1878. 
Editob Forest and Stream:— 
In Forest and Stream of last week, E, S, F., inquires in regard to 
the above subject. Possibly a tew remarks other than those which yon 
aave him may be of some interest. Shad commence to take the tiy as 
soon as the water beguis to grow warm and continne to take It, I think, 
as long as they remain in the river, having myself caucht them after the 
1st of July. A most excellent cast of this is composed of the following: 
White miller for loader, with red ibis, snipe, aud aDy drab fly with 
lighter body, arranged as you please. All of these Qies must be quite 
small, as the shad bites rather delicately, so tUat a large fly is not taken 
sufficiently far into the mouth and the book fails to penetrate the hard 
bony suustmice which it meets there. Fish from a boat anchored to a 
current about fifty or seventy five feet aboveadeep eddy, an ibe flies 
float down stream the current keeps them on top, and after they have 
reached tbe eddy the pole should be evased gently back and forih 
to keep them in motion. Imagine a little incident in such a position. 
As your flies flout slowly over a deep eddy, with flakes of loam and little 
whirlpools wheeling, Slid everywhere dotting the surface, suddenly a tow 
splash Is heard, and thenaxt moment a vigorous tug, tug, bends your 
pole gracefully, and yon have “hooked a fish,” land yet are the rightful 
owner of it); a quick rush up-stream, and the next moment with a sud¬ 
den leap, Ills broad silvery sides glisten magnificently as the spray flies 
on eilher side. What music of the reel as he swiftly reiraces his course! 
Aud soon another leap; and another. And now he struggles less and 
less nntil .it Iasi, he draws near the boat, with mouth wide open and flus 
set lying on one side. Eat a six pounder, Burely. The lauding net is 
reached towards h,m eagerly. Your pole bends in a circle as w ilh a las 
effort, he dartB under the boat and catching the leader, or the anchor linr, 
breaks loose and floats slowly try J tala little to deep, to reach with tlitt 
net; his body bending slowly with a quivering motion, showing him to 
be almost dead. Then may 1 remark: What music with the tongne! 
The best time to fish for. shftd is early in the morning, tmd from five 
until eight o'clock in the evening. As soon as it commences to grow 
dark thev may he taken in still, and shallower w ater by casting, in the 
same manner as Tor trout or bass, and may be taken in this manner nntil 
long after dark. Only the very lightest trout tackle should be used for 
shad aa the fish will almost always break loose If the rod he strong 
enough to allow him any purchase whatever. Purchase, however, Is 
sometimes desirable if yon have had prior luck and most a fellow with 
shad to sen. Roberts. Morris. 
Keel vs. Centreboard Yachts.—A correspondent 
.rites from Boston as follows:— 
“There are two yachts here—one Reel ami one centre- 
oartl—that have had several trials of speed together In 
todo- winds the keel boat has proved herself the ablest 
ml fastest, and she is a little the smallest. The keel boat 
iso draws live reef, of water, tbe centre-board boat draws 
tree feel • they are both ten feet beam, and pretty high 
ided In smooth water the centre-board will go to wind¬ 
mill of llic keel and sail a little faster, yet when the 
[reels are started the keel boat shows her speed to be fast- 
si although sire labors at a disadvantage drawing so much 
[Willi two boats equally'well modeled, the keel boat 
would probably prove I he ablest in heavy weather, her 
greater depth giving her a better hold on the water. In 
smooth water, which generally means light winds, the 
centre-board would have the advantage, and with sheets 
started should beat thu keel boat. In ibis instance, prob¬ 
ably, the latter has the advantage in model.—E d.] 
