May i;,. 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



285 



kriowk'dg-cd. 



S'OMB SoTrTBE&H Reptiltls.— The chameleon of the 

 South is a vory interesting saurian, and belongs to the 

 family of Anoles. What its specific name is I am not 

 naturalist enough to determine, but think it is A, ojmU- 

 livs. Tliey are beautiful little creatures, arid are met 

 with everywhere in the Gulf States. I have often anilised 

 myself by (lie hour watching their playful gambols with 

 one another, or the skill ami agility displayed in catch- 

 ing flies and insects. Their normal color is a bright 

 green, but they can change it almost instantly to dark 

 brown, ashy grey, grey suffused with red. and all shades 

 between. They change to these different colors when 

 .tanned or angry, or when they wish to avoid observa- 

 tion. When in their joyous moods they protrude the 

 ikinof the throat in the form of a brilliant red frill or 

 goitre. They are easily tamed, and soon learn to know 

 their friends, evmcing much pleasure when petted. They 

 very useful, also, and will keep a house free from 

 flies, roaches ami ants, if allowed to roam at will. 



In one of my rambles in the scrub bordering the St. 

 John's River Ikilled a snake about eighteen inches long, 



■ee inches diaul : I er ■ 1 1 -odv : tail, two inches in diam- 

 eter, very obtuse— leaving ri to infer -that the reptile 

 had lost a portion of his caudal appendage; bead as 

 arge and triangular as a six-foot rattlesnake : eyes very 

 large and brilliant, at least one half-inch diameter ; 

 ings, very lung and large. The snake was very bril- 

 liantly marked with red and yellow on a black ground, 

 and was hilled in his trades, either unwilling or unable 

 to move. Was very savage, and fastened himself on the 

 stick witli which I killed him. Can any of your readers 

 name the reptile ? Natjticus. 



snow white, save a small commingling of the black and 



: Lfee I the I'OOtOf the bail, and tiie lower part of the 



belly and inner edge of the flanks, which were a clear 



ray J e 

 3aw, iV, fortunately t 

 the head from the body, " I £ 

 as pretty ;la this, 



I think they have almost 

 have seen and heard of but < 

 had been killed bv ,- ., , ! ■■ 

 I examined this one. and fou 

 pretty, or the color so dist 

 turning to ash and the black to bri 

 I suppose, of wild breeding. 



if the prettiest thi 



y rifle bullet In i] a 



the 



specu 



igs I ever 

 st severed 

 IB almost, 



lisappo.ard now— at least. I 

 ne since the war, and this 

 y with an ex- army musket. 

 id the marking not near so 

 net— intact, the white was 

 n — the consequence, 

 Hair.-Tri«ger. 



#4 §»toW. 



«< 



Not -'Everlastingly."— In his note last week our cor- 

 spondent wrote : "If 'Peregrine,' who chatted so ejjfi 



Ax Introduced Shell.— Baklu-insville.— While at Os- 

 wego, N, Y., in June. 1 S79, I found a small shell in great 

 abundance on the docks, which was new to me, and 

 which I could not assign to any A men'can species. Dr. 

 Lew is at once pronounced it kBythinia, a genus hitherto 

 unknown in this country, but was not quite sure of the 

 species, and so sent it to Mr. GK "W. Tryon who identi- 

 fied it as B. tenta&ilata, Linn. It was in such abundance 

 that I collected some thousands. A few weeks later Or. 

 Lewis received it from Troy, N, y„ and this spring I 

 found it plentiful in the Erie" Canal at Syracuse. It had 



. and 



probably come in water-casks to Canadir 

 thence been distributed by other vessels 

 to increase and spread as rapidly as English sparrows, 

 and is rather a pretty little shell, brown or pellowi it ■ ■■' 

 intermingled in size and form between MeTaniho and 

 Ainnicola. Apropos to migrations of this kind, I may 

 say that I found two western unios at Syracuse ( 6 r . 

 pavviCs and rub iff in onus), whilo some eastern species 

 were as clearly working their way west;. 



W. M. Beauchaiip. 



: 



t a 

 igb 



)0i 



•eordance with 

 si ate of eiithu- 

 g been talked 

 • a3 8 o' ig 



invited guests 



JO 



ml 



eta glimpse of 

 irman in tier- 



th 



e f 



guests and ex- 

 rst "Interna- 



tb 





-orld has seen, 



he 



d i 



vith so much 



a recent number ol loREST AND 

 ■ond hand, the following inei- 

 tb irty- five years ago by one of 

 He says : "I am the "son of a 



■liju'ritjlt/ in your last 

 I -thi i\ pes made him 

 bo this explanati 



"d to "Peregrine." and 



it deter then 



Maxy-(V>i.o; 

 -I reai i i 



n trout tl 

 latin 



etc.; and be did nOti 



"chatted so everlastin 

 i justice both to "H, I 

 hope that the blonde] 



IVuni sending further contributions to our 



grass., winch appear 

 Stream, to give us, 



dent, related to him 

 bis father's farm ha 

 farmer who was one of th 



of Canada— the old Niagara district. In old times peas 

 were raised for feed, and were considered a good crop 

 for clearing land for fall wheat. While dame's McDon- 

 ald, my father's man, an Irishman from the "ould sod," 

 was sowing pea-ground adjoining a thick undergrowth, 

 a fine ruffed grouse came out of the brush for the peas, 

 and seemed well pleased with the food ; so much so that 



hen McDonald came up to where it was, it did not fly, 

 but merely moved out of his wav, as a common fowl 



ight do. The bird returned the next day, and the 

 man declared that before be had finished the field, it 

 came up to him ami took- peas from his hand. Shortly 

 after this, however, it disappeared, having, very liktlv 

 fallenaprey to some pot-hunter. The above account' 

 narrated to me when a small boy, made a great impres- 

 sion on me. It was my first lesson in gi 

 and will not soon be forgotten." 



iblis 



lei nan named K- 

 'ion in the county of Ma 

 iome bwoortwo and 

 Dee River, and a short d: 

 I leading north to the Is 



n so-.si.u. audit brought to mind 

 , which i think have never been 



Carolh 



i lii 



nsidcrable plan- 

 C. His dwelling 

 ist of the Big Pee 

 ! the public road 

 Like most of 



.tars of that section, he owned a body of land 

 reaching from the sand-hills to the river banks, and the 



■ port 



of th< 

 it thorou 

 of woodla 



laud, 



ist 

 iltivated. 

 oundinj 



Pugnacity oe the Esglijh Sparrow.— Our corres- 

 adi a tr.J : ■:■!■. I 'ou-s, writing to us from Hornelb- 

 lllc. N. Y.. teds us of the following extraordinary inei- 

 • A short time ago, I was walking with 



my wife in one of th 

 a sparrow fnrii lUsiy 3 



wore on her bat. Tin- 

 Op by Charles Benzingi 

 sparrow was a I 



■ry dark colored.' 



lit . si :< ti 

 my wife 

 id was set 



lace. The 



An Albinistic Robin.— This robin was killed April 



beach, maple and 

 abundance for the 

 which could be fouu 

 plantation. Very I 

 seen in that partie 

 .numerous in the pi) 

 some distance away. 

 Some thirty-five o 

 Raited to hoc. apair 

 feame from, or of whi 

 I never Baw them, b 

 being of the 

 their coats 

 that of the 

 id aft 



l of tl 



Kith by a friend, wl 

 rather an odd appearan 

 trails: Its tail is pure 5 

 across the tip : two of 

 are partially white, the 

 normal color. There 

 markings, two white fe 

 this t 



It presents 



tiowmg albinistic 

 l in 1 of black 

 I Of the left wing 

 i tips being of the 

 i to these peculiar 

 t the middle of tl: 



aesizeand . ppeji 

 b rnilk-v lute. 



ox or black squirrels 'were ever 

 section, but these were quite 

 id also in the cypress swamps, 



go Mr. K had prc- 



squirrels. Where they 



were, I do not; know, 

 trd them described us 

 nee of the grey, but 



something finer than 

 prized highly his new 

 ghlv tamed. Lave theni 

 a home-place. When 



Mr 



lired on bis plantation 



The squirrels were vei 



ipread to the adjoinin 



south, and many of thei! 



bordering the river. A 



ran to change then- c 



Idbe met with occasi 



le variation of black a 



is at least a dozen th 



. . ..hunting in the swam 

 fully ten miles from the i 

 erty. and came i 



large p'm 



[failed i 

 (geared in 

 rked i 

 iroach 

 pie: 

 le of tl 



lfe 

 their nest, and in due com 

 tig ones, also milk-white, 

 laud — l. <\. advertised it accord 

 ;.. and refused to allow a gun to 



y prolific, and in course of time 

 I plantations, both north and 

 i took to the immense swamps 

 ml now, strange to relate, they 

 ilor, and from being pure white, 

 mally, marked with every pos- 

 nd white. 1 killed at various 

 is marked, On one occasion I 

 p on the west bank of the river, 



tearest point of theK prop- 



33 one. Itewassittingonalimb of a 

 nut, and although I tried very hard, 

 ii shooting distance before he disap- 

 fthe tree; but be was so beautifully 



get w 



i hollo 



leterniiued to kill him, and so very eaution.dy 



1 within easy range, and seated myself to await 



day, and doubtless he wont in fori 



Anyhow Iliad to wait nearly three hoars before he 



a came out, but this time 1 was ready for him, and 



i had a bullet hole through his neck, ' His coat was 



t perfectly beautiful being a ia&p sparkling black' 



)ept the ears and the large, bushy tail, which were 



ehunge; 1 i:r r u.u 

 (E. l»trclv:Uli>, t - 

 throated capuchlr 



rd is not dissimilar to the ordi- 

 n about OUT door-yards. 

 fa, Minn. Wm. L. Wolford. 



hi...... i i„ 



i: j«nta)-al 

 fits), 1 Eiifillst 

 aceiveil in e.v 

 ittroholl zebra: 

 mi?), J toute 



Abdkess all communications "Forest and Stream 

 Publishing Company, New York." 



THE BERLIN FISHERY EXPOSITION. 



KCMBME II. 



hFrom our Staff Correspondent.] 



Berlin, April 23d. 



TIIE opening of the World's Fishery Fair at Berlin 

 took place on April Sfjfch, in 

 the programme, and the city was i 

 siasm over the. event which had so 

 of and was now made a reality. As 

 the people began to assemble to 



the Crown Prince himself, the most r 

 many, and who, in presence of 

 hibitors only, was to formally op< 

 tionale Fischerei Austellung" whit 

 the birth of which has been wi 

 interest lest it should prove abortive, but whose suc- 

 cess was assured on the second day, when it was estima- 

 ted to have been visited by 20,000 persons, who were by 

 turns surprised and delighted. 



One is struck at fh'st by the beauty of the exhibition, 

 and soon sees that this is the element which attracts so 

 many ladies ; for beauty and good taste are everywhere 

 displayed In close proximity to the objects of interest to 

 a student of the fisheries which are not in themselves 

 beautiful, while there are portions where the ornamental 

 is the main feature, such as the grotto of rock work with 

 openings on four sides, showing broad views of the Bay 

 of Naples, while living fish swim in the pools beneath, 

 and stalactites droop from the overhanging rocks, the 

 great fountain of Neptune, with parterres of flowers, and 

 the aquaria. 



Berlin has a fine aquarium on the main street, Unter 

 den Linden, and its Director, Dr. Hermes, makes a dis- 

 play of his transporting apparatus, live fishes, etc., and 

 among the latter we find a tank of small eels, perhaps 

 six inches in length, which ars labelled " male, eels." and 

 he announces that the male is seldom larger, and that by 

 the investigations of Dr. Syrski, of Trieste, it is now 

 possible to distinguish the sexes with certainty. This 

 will be referred to again after a closer examination, and 

 a more complete explanation may be obtained : but all is 

 yet in a state of busy preparation for the jury of awards, 

 and the American Commission, whose goods arrived so 

 late, have been too busy to see anything, and hence no 

 bject of the sexes of eels is to be 

 They bad their different depart- 

 umo for inspection by the Crown 

 ■eing them in full dress escorting 

 ;h their great exhibit, and ex- 

 '" lies, would have suspected 



information on the su 

 derived from them, 

 ments iu order just in 

 Prince, and no one si 

 the Prince and suit (I 

 plaining the uses of tl 



tthey had been up nearly all night 

 ars to have their house iu order in tim 

 In the Department of Natural History. I 

 made by Italy; but in. this, as in all ot 

 to attempt a description ot the articles, 

 size of the exhibition being so much 

 expected, at least by the writer, and tl 

 that there are many goods vet to be pla 



In the exhibit of the United States 

 private exhibitors, the main portion be 

 National Museum, and it is therefore to 1 

 are also but few articles in the Amen 



Id, and these are the oil paintings c 





e beav- 



lie o 



jenmg. 

 splay is 







iO soon 





oft he 



er th 





1 posl 





are 1 



uf few 



weed 



by the 



rned. 



There 



at, the c< 



S. A, KiLbo 

 a' si i ad ow cano 



^!3l.i 





Bd-cj 



lata 



i bull! 



ydiOi 



Bias 



td- 



;:,.:!,., 



{Purrtmh 

 ithrij: lutcug), 3 crowned pifreous (Gmiro 

 oorOJJOto), " lesser sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cucalua salylmrm), 

 4 blue-fronted finiazons (CVrrj/sotia wslWa), 1 agile parrot (C. aijilis) 

 —all purchased. Fkank J. Tuompson, Supt. 



— Ono feels the pleasant breath of the May bree: 

 reading the Forest a no Stream fi 



var.iei 

 inanlv 

 and B 



i.l and interesting matter deals \ 



th 

 h all h 



iek. Its 



'althy and 





whereof they w 

 a portion of tl 

 their readers. T 



our neighl: 



Pork Row, and we estelm 



tunate in having such a neighbor. — New York Even- 

 inn Mail. 



i f i > ~— ■ 



AuvJlRTlSEMEXM.— Alt advert ismiKi) l.i sliuuld reach us 

 on or before Tuesday morning of each week. An ob- 

 servance of this rule will insure satisfaction to all con- 

 cerned, 



nackerel 



: a Solmo solar. 1 



.1 a Shattuek bos 



is mainly made 



3d : 



Am 



pay the price wl 

 the best; style of 

 maud for 'them 

 made to any ext 

 and all the acoe 

 these countries, is so i 

 perfectly finished and t 

 of strength with the mi 

 as though the poiut h 

 and improvement in. n 

 fort and convenien 



r celebrated maker 



limited in Englan 



rhile the display 



moder 



f! 



ies of th 



te, ; 



if obstacles to e 



lti 



alio 



Bairddidnot 

 to them ma: 

 ing statistic: 

 connection i 



that it will i 

 million dolk 

 work on the 

 other labors 

 Fish C 



ounter. 



The display of 



England and 

 racticed m the 



the world gets 

 the rest of the 

 e mostly made 

 not caring to 

 when made in 

 lerefore the de- 

 tail they are not 

 reels, line lints, 

 aigler shown by 

 a articles are so 

 5 the maximum 



IBS, that it seems 

 when invention 

 ; to the success, 

 uststop for lack 



■ i , 



-aither- 



ritb 



3 the . 



fei 



Preside 

 the 

 don 

 thai 



ded 



llllltl" 



day ' 



for privil, 

 ■ tioi 



the Smith 

 on, all rende: 



: "Pre 



•ehy ;t is hoped 

 live and a half 

 table value, the 

 gether with his 

 in and with She 

 ible. for him to 

 M • and 

 Ho,-r yon u ehl% 

 erein, propose^ 



ina.it e.-j 

 ice its interests 



i afterward ad 

 th the Interna- 

 , that Piof. 

 t at it." 

 ; Order and 

 able to get 

 ■ruing the SpeoiaJ features 

 i perhaps to get a pei 

 the i. lyd.erious processes of fish culture in all these coun- 

 tries, gathered here to vie with each other in presenting 

 their scaly products to the world, 



-Tin 



,n bye 



oyster 



n instituti. 



d it imposs 

 .t this time, still they 



. i I ■ onner patty", 



Deutsche Ksoherei V 



i culture and to advai 



itber man in the world," ain 

 only thing in connection wi 

 ary Exhibition which I regri 



1 not do us the honor to be en 



1;. when all is in e 



tea are corrected, it will be 

 urination conce. uin- the s 

 tch country, t 

 ous processes « 



