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FOREST AiSD STREAM. 



TAuGrsT 13, 1880. 



albumen-), c, the curd. The boiling procpss mu.st of 

 course be completed when the fish is to be eaten. 



♦ 



" SAtMON IN Maink take TiTE Fly.— It has been said 

 amt -VFhile saUnon in most other \vaters take the Hy at 

 some seasons, those in Maine streams hare pewistently 

 refused it, It would be verv ^xatHyine: to know why 

 thev liave declined it, and still move s.j to learn their 

 reasons for reconsidering the question and resolving to 

 accept it. Inproof that they now take the manutac- 

 tured insect, we publish the foUowing dispatch which 

 was received at Portland from Bangoronoday last week : 

 •'J. F. Lea.vitt and H. L. Lfonanl, -tlio rod man. linve 

 just returned from a tnpnml havi; iiTni]:^nt wmi t leiu 

 the first salmon taken with u uy m t enohsrut ^miIpi,-. 

 This thev took in Wassattiquoik stream, which emptnes 

 intotheeastbianchof the Penobscot half a mile above 

 the Hunt farm. Tliey repoit that plenty more can be 

 had in the same way." ^ 



Fish in Mabke:.— New York has been poorly sup- 

 Dlied with fish during the last week. There are a few- 

 Terv laree sheepshead corning in from the south coast ot 

 New Jersey, which vWll ^^ -1>:h from ten to thirteen 

 rounds. Bluefish and ^v, aktish are small, ni.any of the 

 former heing under two ].cmnd=: kmgfish very scarce. 

 Fulton Market prices Aug. 10th, are: Salt water fish- 

 striped bass, 25 cts. perpcund; bluefish, 10: salmon. 

 4.5 ; mackerel, 18; weakUsh, 10 : Spanish mackerel, 40: 

 halibut, 18: haddock, 6; codfish, 8: blackfish liJ; 

 flounders, 10 : porgies, 10 : sea bass, 18 : eels, 18 ; sheeps- 

 head. a.-); pompano, 75 : smoked salmon, 20, dry cod, i ; 

 <neeu turtle, lo ; lobsters. 10 ; soft crabs, 75 to ll.to per 

 dozen. Fresh water fish— whiteflsh, m ■ lake trout, lo ; 

 frogs, 15 ; crawfish, i, 



Salmon vnd BEA-TRorT Angling ln Canada.- Tlte 

 Rnnrt h-ts he^n rnrr por.r on most rivers this season. A 

 ^^Zn^hosl^'nt .ome time on the Restigonche. 

 Nepissiguit and Miramichi rivers reports the season back- 

 ward and fish scarce. He spent sixteen days on the lat- 

 ter river by invitation of the lessee, and took many sea 

 trout (Salmo fonUndUs), some of them over seven 

 pounds in weight. ^ 



A Fish That Swallows Bigger Ones.— The Smith- 

 sonian Institution has received a very curious specimen 

 of the fish kind, recently found on the fashing-banks of 

 Gloucester. Mass., by Mr. A. Howard Clarke. It rejoices 

 in the name of Ohasmodes mger. and it.9 peculiar dis- 

 tinguishing feaUire is the fact that its rapacity leads it 

 tcTswHilovv fishes which are twice as large and weigh 

 four times as much as itsel f . 



Gkayllng in >-i.w BRL-Nswicii.-We are inf,:.rmed bv 

 Dr A. f erber. of New York City, who has just returned 

 from the salmon streams of that region, I hat he saw verit- 

 able grayling taken from Loch Lomond, twelve miles itp 

 tneS^. Johns, where the guides told liim thai he would 

 find tw-o kinds of trout, red and white ; the ^ "hite 

 trout " were prouoimced to be grayhng {T;^;y"'<'""vi by 

 the doctor, who is famUiar with them. 



How DO YOU PUT a Cbawtish on a Hook.— a sub- 

 scriber writes : Can you obtain fi-om some of yom- read- 

 ers, who ai-e black bass anglers, 11^*°""'' '"",;''" /''",;: 

 proper method of placing a crawfish on the hook to be 

 Ksed for bait ? We therefore insert this to draw oiit all 

 the knowledge on this subject that ouv bass fishers have, 

 in preference to giving oiur own p ractice. 



Lkase op Eosian^klll CREEK.-We understand that 

 Messrs. H. Fuller, of the Ene P^d road, and K Cahill 

 have leased the fishing in three-quarters of the Romans- 

 kul Cretk, near Milford, Pike County, Pa for live years. 

 The lessees propose to p ut in 3.000 trout tbi.s fall. 



Mrnh.\den FisHF.ruES FAIL Aoajn.-A Boothbay, Mame, 

 corresnondent of the Lewiston Journal says : "Fish are 

 very pCtifSl:lng shore ; most every, one who can man 

 a dors- isafter tlieia. The menhaden fishery is again a 

 dead failure ; the steamers have aU gone South and the 

 factories closed up for the season. 



Blue Fishln-g ExTRAORDiKARY.-Mr. Harry FnUer, of 

 the Erie Railmud, during .seven days' fishing at Great 

 South Bay near Bay Shore. L. I., caught with arodand 

 reel, no less thau GTl bluefish. 



lowK.-I>ubuque, Aug. 4tt.— Black and wMte bass 

 fishing is the bestkno^vn for years, but will not last long, 

 as the river is going down and the sloughs drying up, 



—A "boom" in menhaden or mossbuuker oil is repor- 

 ted from New Bedford. The Standard of that city says : 

 " The sales will aggregate about 3,.W0 barrels, the greater 

 part of which was at 46 cents, and the remainder upon 

 terms not disclosed. 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



TbeNuttall BuLLETis.-The July aunibor 01: the BullcUn 

 contains a great aroount of valuable Information from the pens 

 or a number of our best known ornitholog-ists. A notice of Ur, 

 Sbufeldfs memoir on the " Osteology of StKiilylo eunicutona )iH- 

 uoacea." bv Dr. Coues, which opens the number, is illustrated by 

 three br. Uititul Hthograiihic plates. >Ir. Ki.tgway contributes to 

 ,;; , , ,. i; :-* articles lit iiupoftance, one on "flanus loliffir'JS- 

 i:.;i5ii!:al Hu.e:-.," iiaotheron " MaKriirhnmphvn W'i- 

 iM. . ,1 :' aii'i :ithirilrjua"Ne-v,-AlusIian8iinclpiper 

 ^_^, ,,,, , !'.,i .i- ,M ■ Mr. Dalg-leisb continues his" List of 



Ocourreri I CTloaii Birds in Europe," and Mr. N. T. 



LawreDi |, ,, per on ■■The Greater Long-beak (3/a- 



erorhatiir ' There are three papers by Mr. Allen 



In the July BiH^tlui. ■'Destruction of Birds by Lighthouses" 

 gives the results of inquiries by Mr. Deane amons the lighthouse 

 keepers of the coast, a class of men who ha^•e rare ^opportunities 

 for observing the pfissagc of birds during the migrations m 

 spring and tail. Another important paper liy the same writer 

 Ireata of that much agitated qiiestion.the " Oriyin of the Instinct 

 of MtBTBllon ill Buds,' and contains mueti Ihat is new as applied 

 to our birds. A •' List of the Birds of Santa Lucia, West Indies," 

 compleiea Mr, Allen "e contributions to the last BulUtin. " Recent 

 Uternture " notices a number of valuable contilbutiona to North 

 American and European ornithological literature, and " Genutal 

 Notes " contain a vast amount of new* items which will Interest 

 every ornithologist. 



§mrjB §Hg nt\d §ui}. 



— Address all communications to ' 

 Piiblixlmig Company, New York," 



Fovest and Stream 



GAME IN SEASON TS AUGIST.- 



Woodcock, PhiU.ihela minor. 

 Black-bellied plover, ox-eye, 



Squatnrola hclvetf.cn. 

 Long-billed curlew, Numeniiti 



or calico liack, StreiJ- 



Turnstr 



WUlet.r;, . - . 

 TtlWeT.Jnuiniismrla,! 

 Tellow-shanks, Tolauii 



ilctieiui. 

 ijlai'tpen. 



Ite.i-lireiist.-.l snipe, dowitche 



This enumeration Is general, and is In contlict with many of 

 the Stat? laws. 



"Bay liirds" generally, including various species of plover, 

 sandpiper, snipe, curlew, oyster-catcher, surf bird, phalaropes, 

 avocots, etc.. coming under the group Llmao'ike, or shore birds. 

 Siiiny States permit prairie fowl (pinnated grouse) eliooting after 

 Aug.l.ith. _ 



iMIGRATORY QUAIL IN MAINE. 



Portland. Ava 3d. 

 Editor Fui-eat mid Stream :— 



Of .J. 100 quail iCoturnixmm'inunisJ imported to Amer- 

 ica this year, '3. GOO came to Maine and arrived to my care 

 in Portland June ilth. These birds were immediately 

 forwarded (o the various parts of the State, where they 

 were liberated in lots \ tirying from fiiteeu to seventy- 

 five each. For the information of your readersin >Iaine 

 I give a list of the cities and towns to which I for- 

 warded birds. 



St. Stephen, N. B. (adjoining Calais, Maine), Bangor. 

 Winterport, Rockland, 'VViscassel, Bath, Augusta, Rich- 

 mond, Bowdoinham, Brunswick. Lewiston, Auburn, 

 Norway, Bridgton, Saco. Kenneliunk and vicinity of 

 Portland. 



I made a public request that reports be sent to me of 

 their nesting, etc. , number of eggs or young observed, 

 localities of nests, where last seen in autumn, and arriv- 

 als here next season from their Southern migration, and 

 •any other items of interest. I have received reports from 

 various localities, and iiope lo receive more and fuller 

 ones later in the season. 



The birds were observed to commence nesting within 

 two days after liberation, and many nests, with eggs 

 were reported before July 1st. Two weeks or more later 

 the young w-ere hatched "in those nests that had been un- 

 disturbed. From ten to fifteen eggs is a usual number to 

 a nest, and eighteen the highest number yet reported. 

 .Some nests, found early, containing only a portion of the 

 mint her of eggs to be laid, were deserteii after having been 

 mowed over and left exposed, Ibid such nests been 

 screened by standing grass, or low bushes, probably the 

 buds would not li;i,ve deserted tliein. Afler the fid! quota 

 of eggs are laid and the birds .ire setting, there is less 

 danger of desertion. Indeed, these quail have been so de- 

 voted to their domestic duties as to permit the noisy 

 mowing machines to kill them on the nests, the knives 

 decapitating them, or the wheels crushing them. The 

 birds that deserted their exposed nests are laying a full 

 number of eggs, ha\-ir.,i< lu-ijbablv nested agairi. and may 

 bring forth late broods. AltliouRh the mowing ma- 

 chines have destroyed a lew birds and nesls, the worst 

 enemy of the (|iirul here is the domestic cat. I learn of 

 very manv quail having fallen a prey to cats. 



If our farmers appreciated the mjury they sufliej by the 

 loss of the many hundreds of insect-eating birds killed by 

 cats every summer, they would take steps to prevent it. 

 All through the sjiriug and summer puss is hunting in 

 the fields and along the hedges ; not for mice, but for 

 its more delicate and favorite food, the birds. Aud a sin- 

 gle cat will kill scores of birds, old and young, in a sea- 

 son. Woodcock are not infrequently caught by cats, and 

 our new game, the quail, are snlTeriiig great deciniKtiOu. 

 along with our smaller Iiiid', frijin this cause. 



The quaU are very centle. and not only nest witliin a 

 few rods of houses ami hit,diw.-ivs, Irut are observed feed- 

 ing with the doineslie ehiekens. The fariners take quite 

 as much interest in these ijiuiil as du the sportsmen, 

 and many have already learned to know the ventriloquial 

 notes, that ea,n he hoard so far aw-ay, 



Kow, while \\riting cf the quail (Coti«7iia!comwmrH's), 

 I wish to protest against subjecting this bird to the ap- 

 plication of local names and misnomers. We have 

 enough of confusion in the names of our birds wdthout 

 unnecessarily adding to it. This new bird is a Quail. It 

 is nothing else. 



Sportsmen of the Northern States may call our native 

 Virginia partridge, or colui {Orty.x virgtnianus), a "quail" 

 if it pleases them better than a more appropriate name, 

 but do not apply a misnomer when there is no occasion 

 w^hatever for it. 



Messina is tlie city from whence these quail were ship- 

 ped, and the term is no more appropriate than would be 

 New York, or Portland, as applied lo quad. Do not use 

 it. If the simple lenn "quail" is too short, call the bird 

 a "mi.gi-atory quail." Such a term is descriptive and 

 apropos. . 



In conclusion, I would say that my predictions, so 

 confidently made, have thus far been verified. The quail 

 commenced breeding where hberated, immediately after 

 their release, and have brought forth their young. Birds 

 killed accidentally were found to be fat, therefore they 

 have found sufficient food. I await with equal confi- 

 dence to hear of their migration South in the autumn, 

 and rettirn next year. Beyond that my expectations 

 give precedence to hope. Everett Smith. 



Col. Wm. Rhodes, of Quebec, who is much interested 

 in the success of the importation, has enlisted the aid 

 of the local papers in securing for the birds immunity 

 among the farmers, He writes the following to the Que- 

 bec Morning Chronicle, under date of Aug. 1st:— 



The" news I get of the migratory quaU from the 

 different parts of the country are very satisfactory ; the 

 birds are doing well, laying eggs, and in some cases the 

 ego-8 have been hatched : the birds do not appear to 

 wtmder, and they keep well out of sight, but their pres- 

 ence is easilv detected from " dustings," "droppings" 

 and " digs ' iiito ants' nests, also from " calls "or " pip- 

 ings " which occur in the evenings. _ ._.^-. 



The inhabitants in the coimtry take quite an interest 

 n the farmer's quafi. One respectable lady told me they 

 isang more beautifully than th.- '■ rossignol," and when I 

 questioned her as to their pluniafie. she said thev were 

 "blue," so I concluded she was. politically speaking, in 

 astate of eiTor. Our legislature, tlirough'the a.ssistancB 

 of the Hon. Mr. Boss, M.P.P. for the County of Quebec, 

 who got Mr. Watts, M.P.P.. to draft the following amend- 

 ment to the game lav.-s, and which has now become law, 

 hasgiven this quail question important assistance, and 

 for which they deserve our thanks: "Any person who 

 shoots or kills any migratory ([uail in this Province be- 

 fore the 31st da.v of De. ember, 1882, shaU be liable to a 

 fine of not more tlian fl.. e dollars, or an imprisonment Of 

 not more than fifteen days." 



It is not, lio never, by legislation the migratory quail 

 can be protected. Land ow-ners have to understand these 

 birtls belong to the farm, like the robins belong to the 

 garden and tlie swallows to the house ; that they are a 

 delicious bird to eat, and worth .10 cents a brace in the 

 market, besides being an object of sport for the voung 

 men, and above all, that the quail will return to" their 

 native farm, ;ind when once there will live a quiet and 

 retired life, Tlie lurds I lia\e turned out on my land 

 have not gone four acres from the spot they w'ere let 

 loose. The dr;;- seas'.jn is very much in favor of the 

 young birds getting strong and growing rapidly. Su far, 

 the experiment is quite a success. 



The Quebec game law has been amended to provide a 

 close for tlie migratory quad to Dec. 31.st. 1883. 



MiGRATDRV Qltail.— The Rutland, Vt,, HercdcL and 

 Glohe says th-at .Judge Everts is iu " receipt of unmistak- 

 able proof that the migratory quad ha^■e returned to 

 Rutland. They have been heard in the surrounding woods 

 for several days, and their peculiar note cannot be mis- 

 taken. The .iiidc;e was ttie pionrer in the nioverneut for 

 Iheintroihietion of migtatoiT quail into this eountry. 

 and ha.s reason lo feel graliliHd at the success oi his pet 

 project. The retiun of the liirds in numbers to the spot 

 where they first got llieir fieedoin in this country is proof 

 enough of the practical success of .Judge Everts' theory. 

 The judge is an enthu-siast on the subject of .game, and 

 says that he would rather Itne.w of the success of his 

 quad project than to leave a fortune at his liealh. He 

 predicts that the migi-atory qut:il will eventuallv become 

 the most numerous of all the game birds of America." 



It is also reported th,'it " si-veral ne^ls containing yotmg 

 Messina quail have been tliscovered in the Lewiston and 

 Auburn (Maine) suburbs. The largest ntimber of birds 

 found in one nest thus far is fifteen and the smallest 

 number five. It was feared that many nests would be 

 destroyed by the teeth of the mowing machines during 

 the haying season, but the hay-makers gladly responded 

 to the re(nipst to look out for the nests in mowing, and 

 not a single case of loss from this cause has been reported 

 in tills county. One gentleman found tliat his cat had 

 discovered a nest in his field and had killed two of the 

 yoimg birds just hatched. He protected the other little 

 birds by putting a box with a small opening over the 

 nest. The indications are promising for a laige family 

 of Messina quail in Maine next year." 



Toronto Game .ind Fish Pia rrti. riuN.^The Toronto 

 Globe has this re.tiime of the .game pn.spei t iu the vicui- 

 ity of that city : "The patiently awaited for timi. of the 

 sportsman ha.s an-ived, and the woodcock are now at liis 

 mercy. The fact of game being so scarce that hunters 

 of the day are forced to penetrate the woods hundreds 

 of mdes in quest thereof. wUl attest to the fact tliat the 

 game laws cannot he too rigidly enforced. Had tlie gen 

 eration past observed the economy in that direction 

 which we are forced to observe, our sportsmen could en- 

 joy their 'outings' in I lie \icinity of their homes, return- 

 ing always with abundantly tilled bags. The wholeBale 

 destruction of our birds of pa.s8age has tended more to 

 their extermination th.an the denuding of the forest. 

 This destruction applies to fish also. Who docs not re- 

 member when the supply in Lake Ontario was adequate 

 to the demand of all the residents upon its banks? That 

 day is past owing to the destructive means used in catch- 

 ing them. Fishermen must now secure a license for their 

 net privdeges. while setting for fish in the spawning time 

 in streamlets isslriclly prohibited. Nor do the laws re- 

 main a dead letter on" the statute book. Sca,rcely three 

 months ago no less a [tersonage than the President cf the 

 Long Point Came Association was fined heavily in Wel- 

 land for an infraction of the game law-s by the County 

 Inspector. If he shot four quail as alleged, each bird 

 must have cost him §11. .T) — S?48 being the amount of fine 

 and costs. Inspector Kerr, too, has fre,|UPntly given sig- 

 nal proofs of his vigilance, to 1 he sorriAi- of many refrao- 

 tory fishermen. In the T\\'elve, the Fifleen, the Sixteen, 

 and Twenty MilP Creeks, County of Lincoln, he made a 

 raid on more than one occasion to !eh-anta,c,'e, securing 

 in the shape of trophies the taekles hidden in the water 

 for trapping the unfortunate 'finuy trihe.' The Provin- 

 cial Legislature is to be commended for extending pro- 

 tection to game and fish. The result will be satisfactoiy 

 to the sportsman, though, like all enactments at theii- 

 origin, the laws have yet to receive some alterations be- 

 fore they attain perfection." 



Mr. Sqltses on Ditt.\u.r Powulh.— iVew Vwk, Aug, 

 5th.— Editor Forest and Stream:— Allow me through 

 vour columns to thank the Dittraar Powder Manufactur- 

 ing Company for the insertion, in their advertisement, of 

 the fact that I am not an agent for the sale of their pow- 

 der. The Dittmar Powder Company, which buUt the 

 works at Binghainton. and put in, I believe, all the 

 testing apparatus wliich is now in operation, became 

 afraid longer to continue the manufacture of this pow- 

 der, and, about August, 1870, sold out the whole concern 

 to what was called the Dittmar Powder Manuf.-iOturing 

 Company, which company is now running the works. 

 At the lima of this sale, all my connection ^vith the 

 company ceased, as is very generally known to my cus- 

 tomers. Allow me further to say, that the manuf.acture 

 of the powder now, as then, is entirely under the direc- 

 tion of Mr. Carl Dittmar, and I believe no powder of this 

 kind lias ever been made in this country by any other 

 man, and so the warnings against what is called old 

 powder is a confession that Mr. Dittmar is afraid of hia 

 own compound, which he urged the people to buy last 

 year. The changing of a name, and the putting a sew 



