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so the wings are left free to dangle at their full length, 

 making it almost impossible to put them in their proper 

 place on the bird's sides or back. When the skin has been 

 returned, smooth down the plumage, prick out the eye 

 holes in their proper shape with the point of a needle or 

 small tweezers. Close the bill together by passing a needle 

 and thread through the nostril and base of lower mandable, 

 and tying them together. Fill the skin out lightly and do 

 not crowd it out of natural size by using too much stuffing. 

 If the bird be a large one, a little cotton or tow should be 

 wound around the leg bones. When the skin is filled, sew 

 up the open space where the body has been taken out, 

 cross the legs, and tie them loosely together with thread, 

 put the skin in a paper ferule (pinned together) to keep the 

 wings in position, and put it away to dry. When dry, 

 dust the skin with the wing of some bird, and the specimen 

 is. ready for the cabinet. 



For small birds cotton is best for stuffing material, but 

 with the larger birds, such as ducks, gulls, hawks, &c. , &c. , 

 T would recommend sea grass or excelsior. 



An ordinary penknife and tweezers will answer for mak- 

 ing small skins, but the following tools will greatly facili- 

 tate making skins : 1 pair dissecting scissors ; 1 pair forceps ; 

 1 pair small tweezers, and 1 scalpel. A brain spoon can 

 be made by flattening one end of a piece of wire, (brass 

 wire is best,) and putting the other end in a handle. The 

 next article will be on mounting birds. J. H. Batty. 



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THE NEW YORK ASSOCIATION FOR THE 

 PROTECTION OF GAME. 



On Monday evening last a meeting of this most useful 

 Association for the Protection of Game was held at the res- 

 idence of Koyal Phelps, Esq., in this city. The attendance 

 was a good one, comprising many of our leading sports- 

 men. The counsel for the club gave an interesting account 

 of the prosecutions entered into by the Association since 

 the commencement of this season. Some twenty-seven 

 suits had been brought into court for infringements of the 

 State game laws, all of which, with the exception of three, 

 had been decided in favor of the Association. It is most 

 gratifying to learn that, at least in the city, the game laws 

 are pretty w r ell observed, and that all first-class .hotels and 

 restaurants have given aid to the society. A very just com- 

 plaint was made by the president in regard to the inaction 

 of other associations in the State and throughout the coun- 

 try for the preservation of game, who allowed the most 

 flagrant cases of killing and marketing game to occur every 

 day without taking proper notice of the same. The indif- 

 ference of sportsmen in Connecticut, New Jersey and Long 

 Island was particularly commented on. Sportsmen should 

 remember that the following rules are now in force :— 



jr^r— Shall only be pursued and killed in the county 

 of Suffolk, between the 10th day of October and the 1 0th 

 day of November, in each year, under a penalty of $50, 

 or imprisonment not exceeding three months. 



Woodcock— Can only be killed or had in possession, be- 

 tween the 3d day of July and the 1st day of January, nnder 

 a penalty of $50 for each bird. 



Quail— Can onlv be killed, or had in possession, between 

 the 20th day of October and the 1st day of January, under 

 a penalty of $25. 



Trespass.— Any person who shall knowingly trespass 

 upon lands for the purpose of shooting, hunting, or fishing 

 thereon, after public notice by the owner or occupant 

 thereof, as provided in the following section, shall be liable 

 to such owner or occupant in exemplary damages to an 

 amount not exceeding $100, and shall also be liable to such 

 owner or occupant for the value of the game killed or taken. 

 The possesion of implements of shooting or fishing shall be 

 presumptive evidence of the purpose of the trespass. 



Sign-boards— The notice referred to in the preceding 

 section shall be given by erecting and mainlining sign-boards, 

 at least one foot square, in at least two conspicuous places 

 on the premises; such notices to have appended thereto the 

 name of the owner or occupant; and any person who shall 

 tear down or in any way deface or injure any such sign- 

 board shall be liable ' o a penalty of $100. 



GatcJiing Trout— No person shall, at any time, catch any 

 speckled trout with any device save a hook and line except 

 for the purpose of propagation, as hereinafter provided, or 

 place any net-lines in waters inhabited by them, under a 

 penalty of $50 for each offence. 



No person shall kill or expose for sale, or have in his or her 

 possession after the same has been killed, any speckled trout, 

 save only from the 15th day of March to the 15th clay of 

 September, under a penalty of $25 for each fish. But this 

 section shall not prevent any person from catching trout 

 with nets, in waters owned by them to stock other waters. 



Private Ponds — Every person who shall be convicted of 

 wrongfully and wilfully taking any fish from any private 

 pond, without the consent of the owner thereof, shall be 

 adjudged guilty of malicious trespass, and shall be 

 liable to a penalty of three times the value of the fish taken, 

 and shall also be liable to indictment for a misdemeanor, 

 and on conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in a 

 county jail not exceeding thirty days, or by a fine not ex- 

 ceeding $250, or by both fine and imprisonment. 

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The manatee at Central Park is dead. We doubt if his 

 demise will have much effect upon men at ease in general, 

 however much it may affect our men of science in par£ 



ticular. 



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—We are so overwhelmed by the tidal wave of green- 

 backs which comes careering in upon us in these hard times, 

 that we begin to think it a great "bore." Dwellers on the 

 riparian precincts of the Bay of Fundy will appreciate the 

 under-current of wit and humor which flows silently though 



deeply beneath this ultramarine quidity. 

 ^ ' 4*4*. 



—The article entitled " Narrow Escapes " and printed in 

 last number of Forest and Stream should have been 

 credited to Charles Lanman, Esq. 



MpwtittB M ewH ff rom MM 0H ^ 

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SHALL it be the light or dark blue, from Cambridge or 

 ^Oxford, Balliol or Jesus, who will be the future cham- 

 pions of the oar? Just now the English university men are 

 hard at work, (a spell of bad weather has kept them back 

 for a while,) but thews and muscles are at it again, and oars 

 bend until they snap, and coxswains scold, and "coaches" 

 howl anathemas at the crews. "How the picked men settle 

 to their work, and who shall be "bow" or w T ho "stroke" is 

 definitely determined. On the 18th of this month the Colqu- 

 houn race will take place. When the great event does come 

 off, time, speed and endurance will we feel sure be quite 

 satisfactory. Undoubtedly these English University men 

 are the best oarsmen of the day, and it behoves us to accept 

 this fact with the best possible grace, though we must con- 

 sider the tone of assumption of such prowess, as we find 

 used in some of our English contemporaries, as rather em- 

 anating from the journalistic writer, than representing the 

 expression of the University oarsmen. That the}'' can 

 beat our rowing in the United States is certain; that at least 

 for the present we all accepted such defeat without a mur- 

 mur is very su/e, but we think all bluster on the part of 

 the victors as out of place. It is bad policy on the part of the 

 English journalists to swagger about such matters, and su- 

 percilious references to the ' 'polishing off of Yankee crews, " 

 are as untimely as they are out of place. We shall be per- 

 fectly resigned for a score of years to take second place, 

 and be their pupils, hoping that if not in this generation at 

 least in the next we may equal them. Can there be any 

 good reason why an University crew cannot come over 

 here? If a picked eleven of the best cricketing gentlemen 

 with Grace at their head, paid us a visit and trounced us 

 badly, would it be the least "infra dig," for the University 

 gentlemen to honor us with their presence? We promise 

 them a most cordial reception. They need have no fear of 

 newspaper inquisitions, or interviewing pests, for they 

 would be the welcomed guests of every boat club in the 

 United States. Returning to our English boatmen, the 

 Forest and Stream reviewer, must for the thousandth 

 time, call attention to the fact, that the training of the 

 English oarsman is first commenced in his school days. 

 Then he plays cricket, foot ball, and gets himself into con- 

 dition. In looking over the columns of our contemporaries 

 we see that just now, all the boys at the public schools, 

 from such famed cradles of learning as Charterhouse and 

 Westminster, and from a hundred others of minor repute, 

 are all at work at foot-ball. 



— Like Alexander the great, who sighed because he had 

 no other world to conquer, so W. G. Grace having subdued 

 all the realms of cricket, has been forced to find other shores 

 where he could reap fresh laurels, always providing this 

 much prized tree grows in the anomalous country where 

 he has gone to. Last month the cricket Leviathan, with a 

 tremendous cricketing eleven left for Melbourne. The 

 cricketers will arrive in Australia sometime next month, in 

 the summer of that strange country. Of course the wickets 

 in Ultima Thule, will go down just as rapidly as they did 

 in our New World, and the casual kangaroo in some Aus- 

 tralian glade, getting in the way of one of Grace's lost balls, 

 hit slashingly with his bat, will get killed as unerringly as 

 if the marsupial had been struck with a native boom- 

 erang. Say what you will, there is something grand in the 

 idea of these Englishmen, stalking the wide world over, 

 like the conquering Goths of old, and becoming the victors 

 in every field of athletics from one Continent to the other. 



— Of shooting we hear little. St. Partridge must be sought 

 for it seems in foreign lands, so we have only meagre ac- 

 counts of some adventurous Englishmen getting occasional 

 birds in France and Belgium. The stags, however, coiLo 

 forward in prominence. Noble fellows they must be, as 

 we hear of some killed weighing over three hundred pounds. 



— Polo has been resumed, and the ponies and riders are 

 again being kept to their mettle, there having been a famous 

 match between Liverpool and Manchester lately, one match 

 having been closely contested for an hour and a half. 

 What kind of ball should be used in polo, has not yet been 

 exactly decided. Willow and box wood are suggested for 

 England. Would it be considered as a presumption on our 

 rjart to ask, w r hether such a thing as game of a polo could be 

 played in New York? Have we no good riders among us? 

 If it was but a second or third rate imitation of the thing, 

 could not a riding school, (there are plenty such in New 

 York, and quite good equestrians attending them) attempt 

 it ? Can our gentlemen do anything else than amble in 

 the park? Cavalry officers might start it, and civilians 

 would follow. 



— There has been quite a long bycicle ride just announced 

 in England, a distance of six hundred and six miles having 

 been accomplished in nine days, with the mo£t easy going. 



— Newmarket has secured the services of the Prince of 



Wales, who at the last meeting of the Jockey Club, took 



for the first time his place in the Legislative chambers. One 



of the questions under his most august deliberation was in 



regard to changing some of the restrictions in regard to 



racing two year old horses. Possibly as the English horse 



increases in leggyness, and according to the development 



theory, can better withstand the hot-bed forcing system, so 



opposite to nature, and when at the same time the English 



turfite will in exact inverse proportion lose his common 



sense, when this happy period arrives, we may expect one 



year old races, or cups established for foals before they are 



fully weaned. 



. _ «*»4v. 



A Sr^cH'i.AR Fact — To-day will be yesterday to-mon-ow. 



\m and Miver 



FISH IN SEASON IN NOVEMBER. 



Coast Fish. Lakes. 



Blueflsh, Skipjack. Horse Mackerel, Black Bass, (Mic> ojAervs nig 

 (Temnodon solicitor.) and arohiqan.) (.two species. 



Weakfish, Squetaug (Trout) Otoli- Pickerel, {Esox reticulars.) 



thw.) 



Bays and Estuaries. 

 Striped Bass, Rockfish. (Labrax lineatus.) 



SOUTHERN WATERS. 



Pompano. Trout, (Black Bass.) Sheepshead. 



Snapper. Brum, (two species.) Tailorfish. 



Grouper. Kingfisu. Sea Bass. 



Kockfish. 



— Our readers are doubtless aware of what is being donTby 

 the United States in regard to the multiplication of salmon 

 in American waters, and especially, at the establishment at 

 Bucksport, Maine, where six hundred salmon have been 

 kept penned up during the summer for the purpose of 

 securing their spawn at the proper season. The period for 

 taking this spawn has now arrived, and Mr. Atkins, the Super- 

 intendent, commenced this work on the 27th of October, 

 and it is expected that from two to four millions of eggs 

 will be secured during the season. 



— There is a splendid display of Chesapeake sheepshead 

 on the market slabs this week, large, dark, and in very fine 

 condition. We have also seen some sea-bass that would 

 turn the scarles at ten pounds' weight. 



— Seth Green and brother have returned to Rochester 

 from their month's labor near Cape Vincent, St. Lawrence 

 River, bringing with them two million trout eggs which 

 will be hatched at the State Hatching House at Mumford 

 and then distributed. The government is now busily 

 gathering white fish ova at Detroit and sundry places on 

 Lake Ontario, and salmon trout eggs in Georgian Bay. The 

 Messrs. Green lost three of their fishermen who were drown- 

 ed from a sailboat on the 4th instant. 



— Our attentive correspondent at Cornell University, is 

 an angler as well as a boatman, and states from his own ex- 

 perience, that the black bass will take a fly during part of 

 the season at least under certain conditions of the weather. 

 He says: — 



" Whether the weather has any thing to do with the bit- 

 ing, is beyond my power to say; but one day they will take 

 bait readily and not touch the fly; on the next, with a slight 

 change in wind or atmosphere, they will rise to the fly and 

 hardly notice bait. My experience as regards bass fishing 

 has been confined mostly to the lakes of central New York. 

 Bass are caught during the entire fishing season, but the 

 best time, when they bite the most readily, in fact the 

 sporting time, is during the latter part of July and the 

 months of August and September; and it is during these 

 months, almost solely, that they will rise to a fly. As to 

 the time of day. from 7 P. M. till it is so dark you can't 

 see where your fly drops. Where to fish: on the edge of a 

 sloping bank, where the water is from ten to fifteen feet 

 deep, and off from which the water drops to unknown 

 depths, or over a submerged island, where the water is of 

 about the same depth as on the bank. Fly to use: white 

 miller, red ibis, or any bright colored (red, ect,) small 

 sized salmon fly. Almost any thing used upon the hook in 

 place of the fly, as a bit of red flannel, a grasshopper, a 

 piece of pork or fish, will attract their attention and prove 

 so seductive that they will be induced to cultivate your in- 

 timate acquaintance. Trolling along the edge of the bank, 

 just at dusk, with forty to sixty feet of line out, and a red 

 fly is also very killing. I have known black bass to be 

 caught with the fly in such places as above mentioned, 

 varying from a half to seven pounds in weight as fast as 

 the flies could be cast, and the gamey fish killed and brought 

 into the boat, the fly scarcely touching the water before it 

 would be taken. This occurred in the month of August, 

 day after day, from 5 to 6 P. M,, when the fish began to 

 bite, till 9 or 10 o'clock at night. The moon shone brightly, 

 so that one could see almost as well as in the day time. 

 Undoubtedly bass bite differently in different parts of the 

 country, and the experience of others in other places may 

 be entirely at varience with mine in the central part of this 

 State. H. 



— The fish- way long demanded at Holyoke Dam, on the 

 Connecticut river, has at last been finished, and the Con- 

 necticut Fish Commissioners, with those of the other New 

 England States, are to meet at Holyoke during the present 

 month. The fish-way is constructed on the South Hadley 

 Falls side of the river, and will give shad, salmon, and all 

 anadramous fish ample chance to pass the dam that has so 

 long obstructed their course to the upper waters. The cost 

 of the work was $25,000. The Hartford Post says : "The 

 State appropriated $12,000 in 1869 for its construction, and 

 assigned the construction thereof to the Holyoke Water 

 Power Company. But that company wouldn't touch the 

 money, nor would it build the fish-way, and thus the mat- 

 ter got into the courts, where it was finally decided that 

 the water power company must construct the "way" and 

 bear the expense. They then gave the contract for build- 

 ing it to Messrs. D. H. & J. C. Newton of Holyoke, by 

 whom it was completed Thursday, Oct. 30th. The struc- 

 ture really begins in a pool about 350 feet below the sheet of 

 the dam, extending thence fifty feet down the current, and 

 for this distance is all the way under the water at its pres- 

 ent height, which is no less than during most of the spring- 

 time. At the end of the fifty feet the flume makes a right 

 angle toward the east, connecting with the other section 

 that is close to the river bank, and makes the rise of about 

 22 feet to the top of the canal in a distance of about 400 

 feet. Its total width is 15 feet, and 13 feet in the clear. 

 The plan of the structure ie something like a system of 



