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FOREST AND STREAM; 



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A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 



*wnJ oFlEM> ^g Aquatic Sfobts, Practical Natural Histoky, 



^SHUtJLTUBE, THE PROTECTION OF GAKE, PRESERVATION OF FORESTS, 



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International Poultry Show. — The exhibition of 

 poultry, which opened last Monday at Pomological Hall, 

 in Philadelphia, is claimed to be the largest and finest of 

 the kind ever held in this country. Over 5,000 domestic 

 birds are entered by exhibitors from the United States, and 

 over 400 coops of domestic birds have arrived from England. 

 There are in addition 600 specimens from Canada. Pigeons 

 are largely represented, their department containing car- 

 riers, fan tails, Jacobins, turbits, tumblers, Antwerps, 

 archangels, trumpeters, Suabians, Mahomets, Quakers, 

 fairies, nuns, Moreheads, priests and runts. All kinds of 

 domestic fowl, game chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, and 

 ornamental birds are represented. The show, however, 

 will not be complete without the old Centennial "cock that 

 crowed in the morn," so celebrated in the nursery rhymes 

 of our great-grandfathers. How much some of the child- 

 ren of the new born generation would like to see the his- 

 torical old chap whose praises are piped and sung even to 

 this day ! 



Removal. — Messrs. Thompson & Son, the well known 

 manufacturers of and dealers in shooting and fishing suits, 

 boots, hats, gun cases and sportsmen's paraphernalia gen- 

 erally have removed from their old quarters at 338 Broad- 

 way to new ones at 301 Broadway, where they will be 

 happy to see all who are interested in waterproof goods. 

 Messrs. Thompson & Son's advertisements will be found 

 in another column. 



A New Gauge.— We etre indebted to Messrs. John 

 Rigby & Co., of Dublin, for a cut and description of the 

 Allport patent tube gauge, an instrument for measuring 

 very minutely the internal diameter of gun barrels or other 

 tubes. Our space will not permit a detailed description of 

 it, but it appears to be an indispensible tool for gunmakers, 

 particularly in these days of choke-bores. With one a 

 variation of l-2000th of an inch can be detected with ease. 

 Messrs. J. C. Grubb & Son, of Philadelphia, are Messrs. 

 Rigby & Co.'s agents in this country. 



A New Jacket.— Mess G.W. Simmons & Son, of Boston, 

 are making a new garment, which sportsmen will find a 

 great addition to their kit. It is a vest and jacket made of 

 soft pliable leather and lined with flannel, making them 

 perfectly impervious to wind. We have a sample of the 

 leather, which we should be glad to show our friends. 



—The Presided appoints JTovemter SOtli as T^oksgiv* 



lug Day, 



A NEW USE FOR PARTRIDGES. 



THAT "they manage these things better in France" is 

 now so universally conceded that nothing from that 

 country, which from another source might seem startling 

 and strange, surprises us. And yet the latest instance of 

 inventive genious on the part of a mercurial Gaul is so 

 wonderfully Original as to be worth recording. Sportsmen 

 have heretofore found but two uses for game birds; first in 

 shooting and after waids in eating them. But it has been 

 left for the Frenchman in question to supply another pur- 

 pose to which the results of a day's sport can be applied, 

 although we question whether the probability of its being 

 brought into general use outside of his own country is suf- 

 ficiently great to warrant him in asking for a patent. To 

 make the story short: it seems that a Frenchman is now 

 under indictment for the murder of his wife under the 

 following peculiar circumstances: Suspecting her infi- 

 delity with an individual rejoicing in the euphonious name 

 of Partridge, and finally receiving ocular demonstration of 

 the correctness of his surmises, he philosophically con- 

 tented himself with administering a castigation to the de- 

 stroyer of his domestic happiness and allowed the weight 

 of his vengeance to fall upon his wife. Visiting the mar- 

 ket he provided six of the plumpest partridges he could 

 find, and after cooking them to a turn invited his wife to a 

 repast of her favorite bird, adding a pistol to his own per- 

 suasive eloquence. Compelled to obey, the poor woman 

 managed to eat two of the birds and begged for mercy. 

 The husband, however, was inexorable and declared that she 

 should have her fill of partridge, and with the pistol to 

 back him compelled her to pick the bones of the entire 

 half dozen. Eight hours afterwards the woman died of 

 a surfeit or from dyspepsia, or whatever the result might 

 be which would follow such a meal. The husband might 

 have rested secure in his revenge had he not boasted of 

 what he had done, and an indictment for murder followed. 

 Thinking the matter over the startling thought occurs 

 that perhaps, after all, the hints upon which he acted might 

 have come from this country. Numberless have been the 

 wagers as to the possibility of a man eating one quail a day 

 for thirty days, and a report of some fatal attempt may 

 have reached the Frenchman. His argument then would 

 be that if one quail a day for thirty days would kill a man, 

 seven partridges in one day would surely kill a woman. 

 To be sure our quails are not partridges, although Col. 

 Skinner insists that they are, and they are so called in Vir- 

 ginia. We apprehend that they were the common red- 

 legged variety of France, which are rather tough at the 

 best, and will not lie well to the dog. Hereafter let wives 

 who have jealous husbands beware how they accept invita- 

 tions to game suppers. A dish of woodcocks may be but 

 a substitute for arsenic, and a larded grouse work all the 

 mischief of corrosive sublimate. 



DR. COUES' COLORADO EXPEDITION. 



A private letter from Dr. Elliott Coues', U. S. A., oper- 

 ating for the Smithsonian Institution, says that the Zoolo- 

 gical party under his charge returned on October 12th to 

 Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, where it fitted out on the 

 19th of last August for a season's work in the mountains of 

 Colorado. The party first traveled west about fifty miles, 

 to a point on the Laramie River, near the city of the 

 same name, whence a road available for wagons led into 

 North Park, where most of its observing and collecting 

 was done. The Doctor selected this portion of Colorado 

 as the one least frequented, and therefore likely to off er the 

 greatest attractions to the naturalist and hunter. Since the 

 massacre of some white men by Indians a few years since 

 — we believe in 1873— North Park has had a bad name, and 

 few persons have entered it. The Doctor says : 



" I found it entirely uninhabited, except by a few miners 

 who had gulch claims at the southern extremity. Large 

 game was more abundant than 1 have seen it elsewhere in 

 the west; the Park was fairly filled with antelope, which 

 furnished the principal subsistence of my party during the 

 whole season; while bear, elk, black-tailed deer and moun- 

 tain sheep were numerous in the surrounding mountains. 

 As a matter of special interest, I may note that a few of 

 the woodland buffalo, known to the hunters as " mountain 

 bison," and apparently constituting a variety of the species, 

 still survive. Wild geese, several different kinds of ducks, 

 and no less than four species of grouse, were found in 

 abundance. 



From North Park, I entered without difficulty into 

 Middle Park, through a pass at the head of Muddy Creek, 

 still scarcely known to be available for wagons, yet offer- 

 ing no obstacle whatever — in fact, the crossing of the 

 Divide between the Atlantic and Pacific watersheds was 

 decidedly easier traveling than some of the journeys made 

 inside the Park itself. 1 spent some further time in 

 Middle and Egeria Parks, and finally left the mountains 

 by way of Berthoude's Pass, and so on to Cheyenne. I was 

 unexpectedly embarrassed by sickness in camp on several 

 occasions, but no serious mishap occurred. The results of 

 the field work will be duly elaborated in the usual reports 

 of the survey." 



Dr. Coues closes with a gratifying allusion to the zealous 

 and efficient services rendered by his assistants, especially 

 Mr. L. M. Cuthbert, of Washington, and Mr. W, W. Karr, 

 of Memphis. 



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— When Governor Chamberlain called on the Rock Hill 

 (S. C.) Rifle Club to give up their arms, they shipped him 

 an old horse pistol, a flint lock rifle and an army musket, 



marked "C. O. D.-' 



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«-An ancient horn was lately dug up near Cambridge. 

 It ig supposed to haye_belpngea to one of the plcl tpoters of 

 $|je college. 



MIGRATION OF THE DEER. 



THIS is a subject which invites m^re careful observa- 

 tions than have been made. If we know that we 

 have but one species of deer in North America that is 

 stiictly migratory in its habit— that its members entirely 

 change their habitat with the changing seasons— we have 

 reason to believe that several, if not all of the other mem- 

 bers of this family, are more or less migratory in their 

 habits, but to what extent we may consider at present an 

 undetermined question. May we not with propriety ask 

 of those whose opportunities have enabled them to gather 

 facts bearing on this subject to lay them before the public? 

 We think we may safely say that the Barren-ground cari- 

 bou is the only American species which is strictly migra- 

 tory. They occupy the district of country between the At- 

 lantic coast and the Rocky Mountains north of the sixtieth 

 parallel of latitude. They move to the north in the spring, 

 the females in advance, to the shores and islands of the 

 Arctic Ocean, where they drop their young, and in the 

 fall return south and spend the winter in the lower lati- 

 tudes, individuals passing sometimes south of the sixtieth 

 parallel. 



The woodland caribou is undoubtedly migratory, but to 

 a less extent. Sir John Richardson informs us that con- 

 trary to the general rule, they migrate north in winter to 

 about the sixtieth degree of north latitude, and south in 

 the summer, yet we think it certain that this migration is 

 not unusual as with their smaller congeners of the north, for 

 many individuals at least remain near their southern limits 

 throughout the winter. The great body of those occupy- 

 ing the Islands of Newfoundland spend their lives upon 

 the island, though they change their range at different 

 seasons of the year, while some cross the straits on the ice 

 to Labrador. 



If our moose or elk are to any considerable extent migra- 

 tory, the evidence to establish the fact is wanting, although 

 it is well established that the moose seek the elevated 

 ridges in winter, and the low marshy grounds and water 

 courses in summer. We lack the data which would en- 

 able us to speak with any assurance of the habits of the 

 mule and the Columbia black-tailed deer in this regard. 



The common or Virginia deer, originally occupied every 

 portion of the United States. It has been more carefully 

 observed than any of the other species. The weight of 

 evidence is, we think, that these deer are partially migra- 

 tory, though their migrations are limited in extent and in 

 numbers. They do not entirely desert any district which 

 they occupy at any season of the year, yet in the northern 

 portion of their range numbers seem to change their abode 

 from the north to the south in September and October, 

 for a few hundred miles at least. We shall not stop now 

 to detail the evidence tending to this conclusion, but will 

 remain content with having called the attention of sports- 

 men and hunters and other observers to the subject and 

 ask them to furnish us with such facts as have fallen with- 

 in their observations, of any of our species, bearing upon 

 this question. We have found the testimony of all our 

 Indians to be in favor of a general migration of the deer. 

 If those who have observed facts would lay them before 

 the public when judiciously compared they might go far 

 to settle the whole question. It is a subject on which little 

 has been written by naturalists or sportsmen. J. D. Caton. 



—Our Cohasset correspondent is doing good service in 

 his part of Massachusetts. He says: 



"I have caused the arrest of parties for snaring grouse, 

 and there is a law in this State they find when I get a clue 

 to who they are. The trouble is not in the law, but in the 

 want of some spirit to report people. My man was fined 

 $125. One such case will do for a year in one town. I 

 send a poster, defining the close seasons, which I have had 

 put up in all the stores in these parts, and I know that I 

 have saved hundreds of necks from the noose of the spring- 

 up snare." 



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—The Easton (Pa.) Free Press of Oct. 25th says.— 

 "The Game Protective Societies mean business in their 

 warning to violators of the law. The Philadelphia Society 

 prosecuted Rob Sherwood and Dr. Hazzard, of Bristol, 

 Bucks county, for shooting rail birds one day before the 

 opening of the season. But two birds were sworn to, 

 which cost the parties about $40. A man named Ireland, 

 of Vineland, N. J., consigned to a Philadelphia dealer 25 

 quail and one pheasant a few days ago. For this he was 

 prosecuted by the West Jersev Game Society, and a ver- 

 dict obtained of $15 for each bird and costs, amounting in 

 all to $390. In default of payment, Ireland was committed 

 to jail. This society has agents stationed throughout the 

 State, who will cause the arrest of every oue violating the 

 game laws. The citizens of Delaware county, Pa., have 

 given public notice that they will enforce the Act of As- 

 sembly for the protection of insectivorous birds against all 

 persons engaged in gunning or hunting game on their 

 premises. The different societies are taking such meas- 

 ures as to enforce the game laws that inanother year it 

 will be hazardous to violate them." 



— Those who are curious to know what underlies Long 

 Island may be gratified in part by the disclosures which 

 the boring for water on the site of the Queens county poor 

 house has revealed. The borer, which has reached a depth 

 of 367 feet, passed through various layers of black clay, 

 beach sand, creek mud, send, a|^ depth of 300 feet, solid 

 wood, black in color, was encountered. After passing 

 through this different-colored sand, gravel, clay, and mud 

 were again met, and from the remarkable depth "of 367 

 feet sedge meadow and green sedge roots are brought up. 

 Heretofore the water hag been saltish, or brf gkjitl *9 fWfti 



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