Oct. i8, 1883.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



227 



Cardinal grosbeak, Gavdiit.aU* virginianm. 



Indigo bunting, Puis, 

 ■ 'link, D»iii-/t,ii,i/, 

 Cowbird. Mobdh ens filer 



Rod and buff-shouldered blackbird, Af/flams phouuci us. 

 Meadow lark, StuniJhi mui/iiu. 

 Orchard oriole, Icterus spuriils, 

 Baltimore oriole, Ijekrue galbula. 

 Purple graekle, Qiiisenliis pa rp" 

 Common crow. Conns J'rwv'r 

 Blue jay, Cyanocilta crixtnta. 

 Kingbird; bee martin, Ti/nniininoirullitensig. 

 Phcehe bird, Siiyoniixfii'sei/s. 

 Wood pewec. (/.,< /„:.■'■.: 



Ruby (broated hummingbird, TroehOm cotttbris. 



Whip-poor-will, Ciiprim tdi/iis ro.-iferus. 



Nkdithawk. C/wrdeilas popetHi: 



Red-headed woodpecker. Metem rp, s , / -vthr-.r, ,./■■ 



Yellow-shafted flicker, I ato*. 



Yellow billed cuckoo, Ooceysut wmericanm. 



Black-billed cuckoo, Cocn/zu* aylhropMhalmw. 



American bam owl, Alum flammi ue amenieat, 



American long-eared owl, Asio mum'canus. 



Belted kingfisher, C, -,;•■.- ,:!■-,,:.■■ . 



Marsh hawk, Oircas kudtomus. 



American bittern. I! ■■Vim us h idlyinosus. 



Leasl sandpiper, ,i -..dnutilla. 



Fellow-legs, Totanm jtacipes. 



Whiff -winged Laid. Lm-us leu, ■•.■,■■,.■ 



It will be seen by the above that the Part; is not so desti- 

 tute of birds as some -visitors believe it to be, and as there 

 are several oilier species unknown to myself which are not 

 down in this list, it can readily be seen that quite a large 

 familv of birds congregate in Prospect Park. 



W. B. W-IMAN. 



BROOKLYN, N. V. 



HitTOBOKCA.— Horse Cove, N. C, Oct. 8, 1883 — Editor 

 Fomt iiml Stream: 1 recently shot a very large OWl, and 

 while skinning him was annoyed by llie.s concealed in his 

 feathers, darting out into my face. Theycould bite "some," 

 and at the moment of striking, like a ho'rnet. I inclose you 

 one of the gentry, perhaps you may be able to identify him. 

 By placing him under a microscope vou can see his sword, 

 Ming, or whatever it is. Neither the owl nor the fly are 

 common here, in fact one of the old hunters told me they 

 were strangers to him. As the owl bad recently had a dis- 

 agreement -with a skunk, you can gel -onto idea'of his size. 

 But, to come back to the starting point, what kind of a fly is 

 it'.'— Sai Gwn.LAU. [The fly inclosed is one of the Hippo- 

 boxidee, the family which includes the forest flies and sheep 

 ticks, and is very similar to, if not identical, with that known 

 the "partridge fly"— so common on quail and grouse. 

 I commonly on hawks and owls ; indeed 



These Hies 



Dr. Packard has described 



iulmiis. which wa 



also found them on herons. 



are. given as ESppoSds&i. J.t'i 



under the name Hip- 

 HP an owl. We have 

 renera of these animals 

 i Omithomyia.] 



Tuts Opossum on Long Island.— Miller's Place, L. I., 

 Sept, 1 7. — A few weeks ago, a young male opossum wa 



ol'Wt; 



. C 



f which 

 a short 

 g more 

 one of 

 •oost 



In your issue 'of Di 

 ofts the capture of om at thai 

 mentions an instance of the capture of one at Btrani 



(Setauketiand asks where they came from. 8ev« 



ago a pair were brought here' from Virginia, one 



was given to me, and the other to a friend. Afte 



period of confinement they both escaped, and noth 



was heard of them until the following winter, whe 



them was seen in the vicinity of a neighbor's li 



Can it be that those which have been taken on the island 



during the past year, are the progeny of this pair? — A. H. II. 



Ill is quite possible that, this may explain the occurence of 



the opossum on Long Island.] 



The SpbeaiwqJg Adder. — Editor Fami and Stream: 

 Concerning the spreading adder and its power to harm. I 

 have a little testimony. I have killed scores at the South 

 where they were very numerous, audi think 1 examined 

 every one i'or fangs, but never found any. There was one 

 instance of a child bitten by a "spreader,'' in which the ef- 

 fect was very serious, the child not recovering fully for many 

 days. As I 'remember it, the case did net exhibit ihc fea- 

 tures of virulent poison, but of that acting more slowly and 

 milder. I thought at the time that, possibly the small teeth 

 might have scratched the teuder flesh sufficiently to seriously 

 poUon.— B. 



J$nswer$ to (Correspondent^ 



:-~ Nn Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 



1>. H. W . Pnrnsworth. - Write to Potiingor Horsey, Newmarket, Mil 

 V. t!. H.. Attleboro, Mass.— Write to Win, Tallrami, 5 Fruit St., 



Sqi iiniusi., Fai, -oner. N, Y. (an jou give the address Af parties 

 who have live biuek or pray squirrels (or sate :■ Ans. Write to I'lms. 

 Reicbe & Bro.. Chatham St., New York. 



W. H. B\, Wflkesborre. Pa.— 1. The dop vou refecto i- Mil ■•' the 

 same Lived a.-, yours, an,i the Kiinilarity of name will cause no cu-*" 

 sion. s>. Write to the man who bred Uer for pedigree. 



irdBros.. jew. hi-.-. 

 loi their place of tn 



ig as a clerk omnloved 

 SIC Main street, wb 

 .. hesuddeulv notic 



%m{t §<tg m\d 



'. — It c are always glad to receive forpub- 



f desirable name resorts as may be of help 

 rest ami .Stream. Witt not our eorre- 



■ ith such advice? 





■i Welles & Zini- 

 ide ot the huild- 



1 



■ i the ci 



One of its iced 



of Mr. Qnintnrd 



almost l',v main 

 The annual was 



a 



of work in cap 



1AME RES 



lierdi,,,, si.eh n 

 to the readers < 

 sponde-.ds favo 



To insure prompt attention, communications should be ad- 

 dressed to the Forest and Stream Pidilishimi in. mid no;' /;; 

 individuals, in whose absence from the office matters of im- 

 portance are liable to delay. 



OPEN SEASONS. 



le digest of open seasons, printed in our issue of Aug. 18, has 

 i published in convenient pamphlet form, and will be sent to tiny 



■■■- poBtpaKMw i- "'i oi !■■■■ H 



THE OPEN SEASON FOR QUAIL SHOOTING. 



TT is October morning, 1he golden, glorious prime 



J- Of the autumnal season, the sportsman's royal time, 



And now the hoar-frost jewels, all glittering and white. 



Shine oVt the grassy meadows, and o'er the upland height, 



Ate! far as eye may wander, a filmy vapory veil 



its I ' . r the brimming river that wmdetb down the vale. 



!1. I i 



chart 



Are 



rhich th 



a lavisl 



tries at 



d the * 



ddeued 



and em 



^splendent with the hues 

 * drooping leaves suffust 



n'd. 



niUic 



splei 



sshil 



And where the oaten harvests 

 All bare the russet stubble is c 

 And yellow corn-stacks, like tt 

 While in the busy granaries Mi 



ind fields of wheat were spread, 

 isp beneath the tread. 

 s tents of armies spread around, 

 beating flails resound. 



, T by the blue lake borders, and by the river's edge. 

 Where swing the cat-tail clusters, where leans the rustling sed 

 e the black duck squadrons, the wood duek and the leal, 

 e the ambusb'd fowler. 1 hear his volleying peal 



And ms 1 .skirt the thicket edge, i 



I see the bet tea of theanafl spri: 

 la even- weedy tussock, in ever. 

 And as they sad o'er hedges, in 

 The sportsman's heart exulteth 

 When first the "open 



■ through the stubbles pass, 

 j from the faded grass; 

 swale they hide: 

 iunowings far and wide, 

 th promise of the Joy 



loir in .1 nil. I Nm< iber its 



his gun and dog employ, 

 rliest dawn shall bring, 



The gun's report in open field, or in the green retreat 

 Till then the speckled docks may feed and fly at will. 

 May range the sumptuous stubbles, may sweep o'er plain anil hill : 

 V.'hen comes that day relentless, ah, then poor flocks, beware: 

 Swift, be your flight orye may leave your 'little lives in air." 

 SrtBBKPOST, October. Isaac McLellan. 



VIRGINIA QUAIL AND FOXES. 

 r pHE season for quail, ruffed grouse, and wild turkey 

 .I opened here today and every sportsman who could leave 



other business was early afoot to christen the day. Alitor 

 Holniau. James K. Maddox and Mr. Brooks, the dis- 

 tinguished artist, accompanied by Recorder Williamson and 

 P. V. B. Brooks, Esq., took bee 'lines for the best preserves 

 in the vicinity. 



Eesults good, as I learn this evening, for quail on toast is 

 the supper luxury at the "Warren Green to-night, and hence- 

 forth we expect a frequency thereof. 



Already sportsmen reading the Forest and Stiim.m are 

 writing here for special information regarding quail shooting 

 and fox hunting. 



The shooting is very itood, but gentlemen must bring their 

 own dogs. The fox hunters will greet and aid in mounting 

 alt true sportsmen and bold riders who come to enjoy the 

 sport that is held in greatest estimation here. No pot-hunters 

 need come, but gentlemen, who net as such, will find no 

 difficulty in getting at well protected game in this immediate 

 vicinity. My quarters are at the Warren Green Hotel, and 

 there is no better in the county, if indeed, there is any other 

 that approaches it for solid comfort. 



I shall be too late this week to describe the last thrilling 

 and exciting fox hunt, in which Miss Josie Scott, of Rich- 

 mond, a little, as well as a fearless and graceful rider, was 

 in at the death and received the "brush" from Ihe gallant 

 cavalier who was first on the canine battle ground. 



This is a paradise for true sportsmen who are able and 



willing to endure some fatigue. Deer hunting can be had 



a day's drive from here, while turkey, grouse and quail are 



• by. Squirrels and pigeons are reported plenty. 



Before J write my next I shall be in the field myself, being 



also put iu about a week on Otisco Lake, of which I have 

 also spoken before through your columns. 1 will report my 

 success in capturing game* at these two points very 800D 

 There is much less shooting at Otisco Lake than at Wood's 

 Pond, a consideration which might be taken into account by 

 many. I saw a gentleman to-day who came from the St. 

 La wrgnee River; lie reports ducks in unusually large Hocks 

 all along that great, watercourse, A friend informs me ihey 

 have been quite plenty on Otisco Lake, and from persona] 

 knowledge I know there are thousands of them row on 

 Cayuga Lake and marshes. The same is true of Oneida 

 Lake]" and. by the way, I thinktbe.se places all very good; 

 certainly they are easy of access from this city. 



There have not been the usual number of woodcock shed 

 here this season; they seem to have scattered, and are said 

 to be hard to find. I hope, however, to find some, and think 

 I shall. Partridges are reported quite plenty in the country 

 about here, and parties who can shoot them can find good 

 sport. I can find them, but cannot bag them to my satis- 

 faction. 



Kow, one word about your paper. You will allow me to 

 say its influence hereabouts has worked a marked result 

 for good. Pot-hunting has become almost a thing of the 

 past. Very few men indeed hereabouts go shooting for the 

 emoluments. Sport seems to be what the bovs are after. 



Nearly al 



I cannot clos 

 regard to trap-.- 

 tlueiice of your 

 obsolete, 



. and for sport only, 

 lis letter without saying one more word in 

 ding of live birds. It has. through the in- 

 per. become at this place a prat dice nearly 

 ■h 1 think the whole community owe vou 

 Glass balls and clay-pigeons tire fast becoming 

 therule among our trap shooters. At the present time this 

 aport is becoming decidedly popular. S. K. K. 



SvHAeesK, X. Y, 



GUN, DOG AND CANOE. 



170EEST AND STREAM hits some nails pretty square 

 r on the head in several articles 1 have noticed". Your 

 etlitorial in No. .Son "Trap and Field Shooting" is specially 

 worthy of study by boys or beginners who hope to become 

 good hunters by a course of practice at the trap on glass 

 balls or clay -pigeons, Tt isn't only the "nervous excitement'' 

 attendant, upon springing a first bird from cover that rattles 

 the tyro, but it is thetiwkward way birds have of starting at 

 meist' unexpected times from most unexpected places that 

 bothers, and no clay-pigeon or rotating trap will ever be in- 

 vented that will instruct in these particulars. I've known 

 plenty of proficients at the trap who couldn't bag a bird in 

 the field, and plenty of old and good hunters who coirtdn't 

 win a fourth prize in a glass ball tournament. "Mark West, " 

 one of your contributors, if I remember right, shot at fifty 

 glass balls when this sport was first introduced, without 

 breaking one, yet he was an expert at killing pigeons from a 

 trap, and an excellent field shot. Trap-shooting will teach 

 how to ''hold on," but tramping the woods and fields with 

 only this knowledge will not fill a bag. 



"Nessmuk," I see, has finished his cruise in the Sail v 

 Gamp. It's too bad that you fellows owning thai big sports- 

 man's journal can't keep bim cruising somewhere all the 

 while, for his contributions ought to make many true sport* 

 men and canoeists of your readers. 1 say hurrah for Ihe 

 fisherman who catches one single trout on Big Slim, and can 

 then reel up and quit, because lie "wanted no more'" And 

 hurrah for the hunter who takes as much pride iu a dog of un- 

 known ancestry that loves and knows his work, as" in the 

 canine of the "most fashionable blood," that costs five han- 

 dled dollars! And hip, hip, hurrah and a tiger for the 

 canoeist who takes pleasure in cruising alone, who isn't de- 

 pendent on companions, whisky punch7and a hotel to sleep 

 in at night for his enjoyment! •'Nessmuk" is each and nil 

 of these, and I honor him for it. I have loved him ever since 

 reading a few lines f n 

 dope, also, to meet a 

 ondaeks, but I am uol 

 monthly meetings, oj 

 will go— and the canoes will hs 



•ah this way: "1 

 i occasionally in the Adir 

 Cariwe clubs', boat houses. 

 f punch — that how it 



1 long rest." 



hard at work now closing up a story for the New York 



G'oi.. E. Z. C. Jtjdboh ( "Ned Buntlme"). ? I have never enjoyed a camp-out mor 



Weekly. 



w 



'.-, Va , Oct. 16. 



fore 



in contai t with. Ii w as a 1 ■ 



turing it as they did, for if it had got a good hold 

 them the beast would no doubt have done some savage wort . 

 \ boy was soon procured, into which it was put, and during 

 toe fey hundreds or persons called at the store U 

 at it,— Pouijlikcejjuia Ew/b 



NOTES FROM SYRACUSE. 



LT has now come time to think about getting our traps 

 ready for a fall shoot. I am ready to go shooting, and 

 really, having read so closely your correspondence In rela- 

 tion 'to good places, must, confess I hardly know which to 

 choose. But 1 am going somewhere sure! We have fair 

 shooting close by our own city, but it is natural to want logo 

 away somewhere. 



Very many ducks can now (from this time out) be killed 

 on our own Onondago Lake; more can be killed on Oneida 

 Lake-, plenty can be bagged on Otisco Lake; a few on Skane- 

 ateles Luke, ami larger numbers still on the Cayuga marshes, 

 Good shooting, I think, may be had further norih on the 

 small bays and marshes contiguous to Lake Ontario; notably 

 Wood's Pond, about which 1 have spoken in your columns 

 in limes gone by. The latter place and Otisco' Lake arc my 

 favorites. 1 visited Mr. Wood a few weeks since and made, 

 a careful inspection of the marsh. It would do vou good to 

 take a look at this marsh this fall; ygu WOUldseeas tinea 

 growth of wild rice as your eyes often feast upon. At the 

 time 1 was there very many ducks were seen, a result of 

 home nesting. They were of the classes black, mallard and 

 Wood duck. 



Little shooting has 1,,,-n done there this season as 1 am in 

 formed. A private letter from .Mr. Wood just received 

 states: "Ducks are now coining in quite fairly, and all in- 

 dications are favorable for a good lime this fall.' The water 

 is nearly two feet higher than for some years past, a very 

 Favorable omen. I think there will be uo trouble in putting 

 a boat down at most any point ou the marsh this fall " 



I shall visit this place in the course of a few (Is 



So the sunfish must go, must be? Well, I am sorry. 1 

 wouldn't weep at his eviction from trout waters, because he 

 does "get away" with trout eggs and young; but. pray, let 

 him alone in muddy bottoms, for he is a gamy little fellow 

 to strike, and I'd rather eat him than any mud-bottom fish 

 that swims. Try him "planked." He beats shad, and has 

 just the figure for "planking." 



I don't agree with "Podgers" on the bulldog question, 

 except as to the ordinary ran of miserable bull curs. But 

 take a thoroughbred bulldog whose education when a pup 

 was well attended to, and I'll guarantee his owner will rejoice 

 in the possession of a faithful protector and watch-dog. Of 

 course, his sphere of usefulness is about limited to these, and 

 "Podgers" shouldn't expect to make a hunting dog of even a 

 bull-terrier like Pat. 



Glad to read "N.'s" healthy letter about hunting in winter. 

 . have never enjoyed a camp-out more than one in the middle 

 of winter in New York State. Put up two tents, one 

 slightly larger than the other, one over another, filling the 

 foot o'rso of intervening space with tlraw, hemlock boughs 

 or corn busks, keep a tire going in a little sheet-iron stove, 

 whose pipe anil collar will pack iu the stove, have plenty of 

 blankets, and you will be as comfortable as could be desired. 

 Such a life is the only cure for incipient consumption 1 know 

 of. 



"E. R.." in his Rochester letter, owns up to having "tired 

 a shot at a fence." Now. "E. R.," that's just why our 

 friends, the farmers, are forbidding all shooting on' their 

 lands, because hunters wilfully bang a\vav not oiilv at the 

 game, but also at fences, outbuildings, etc., which the poor 

 farmer has to repair. Maybe a warranted disgust at tt man 

 who would riddle a fence with shot wa.s the reason why the 

 dog ran away as he did. Think it over, "E. R,,' and see it 

 you don't agree with me. 



I'm glad "Don" isu't ashamed to record in No. 11 a hunting 

 trip on which he had "hard luck." I am one of those indi- 

 viduals who never have any other kind of luck, according 

 to what the term "luck" signifies nutting most of your con- 

 tributors, for I'm blessed if I don't miss two-third's of on 

 shots right -traight along, and I've been firing a shotgun 

 ever since I could hold one to my shoulder. It's odd, though. 

 that when I'm bunting i'or meat, instead of for sport, I 

 scarcely miss a shot, but the minute there is enough for a 

 stew in my game bag I fall back into my old "hard luck," 

 and miss two out of every three. Wel'i, I've enjoyed my 

 day's bunt just as much when I've hud ill luck as when I 

 haven't, and wouldn't mind at all coming home empty- 

 handed if those plaguey "Ltold-you-so" i'ellows didn't nie'el 

 me every time and guy me because I'd only brougbl in two 

 quail, just as though slaughtering God's winged <•■<■ 

 were all a man goes hunting for. 



