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rather bankers for a healthy human. A caBe in point : 

 About two years since, while a negro was carrying a 

 white roan ashore upon his back at Panama, he was at- 

 tacked by a monster shark in leas than five feet of water, 

 and his leg was so badly torn before the shark could be 

 forced away that he bled to death before a surgeon could 

 be got. J. O. Swan, M. D. 



Winter Pelage uf Lbptjs Campestris.— Ames, June 

 lith.— Editor Forest and Stream:— It I read Coues and 

 Allen correctly, the jack rabbit is not hepus campestris, 

 but L. callotis. L. campestris is the great northern or 

 prarie hare, and does turn white in winter. Its habitat 

 is from the Saekatshawau southward as far as Kansas. 

 A specimen was shot near this place last winter, which 

 I identified by Coues' description, It was white. The 

 jack rabbit, or more properly jackass hare (L, callotis), 

 has a more southern range, but the two species overlap 

 each other in the western territories. L. callotis does 

 not turn white. A friend who was on a hunting exeur- 

 siou in Dakota late last fall says that he saw both species 

 in abundance, ea beginning to assume its 



winter coat, while callotis was of the usual color. Dr. 

 Coues says on page .2119 of his Monograph: "From the 

 other American long-tailed, long-eared and long-limbed 

 Lares (L. callotis and L. mlifornleus) it [L. campestris] 

 differs in general color, in the white upper surface of the 

 tail, and in changing to white in winter." And again, 

 on page 354: " L. campestris differs from L. callotis in 

 its shorter ears, in wanting the black on the tail, and in 

 becoming white in winter." 



The whole difficulty is explained by the fact that we 

 have on our "Western plains two species of hares nearly 

 the same in size, one of which, the prairie hare (L. cam- 

 pestris), turns white in winter, while the other, the jack- 

 ass hare (L. callotis), does not. F. E. L. Beau 



The true jack rabbit is of course L. callotis as our cor- 

 respondent suggests, but L. campestris is commonly 

 called " jack rabbit " from Kansas to British America, 

 and it was about this latter species that the dispute, hap- 

 pily set right by Prof. Allen, arose. 



Editor Forest and Stream:— 



I think you asked two or three weeks ago for opinions 

 as to the change of color, with the season, of the jack 

 rabbit. In nearly thirty years of quite intimate acquain- 

 tance with "John," I have never discovered that he wears 

 a white winter overcoat. His color varies but little. In 

 this latitude bis tail is tipped with white — a veritable type 

 of the " cotton tail "—but 200 miles further south and 

 beyond, the tail tuft of many is jet black. 



The rabbit of the Rocky Mountains that becomes white 

 in winter is the Lepus bairdti, commonly known as the 

 " Snowshoe rabbit." It is short-legged as compared with 

 the jack, but quite as heavy bodied, and often mistaken 

 for the latter, Its color changes very rapidly in the 

 aututnn.and by the time snow becomes general it is pure 

 white. Its flesh is about the best of the family. 



Denver, Col., June 28/7/.. Wm. N. Byers. 



The hare referred to by Mr. Byers as having the black 

 tail is L. callotis. 



This whole question was set at rest by Prof. Allen's 

 article in our issue of June, 21th ; and to that we refer 

 "Sivad" and other correspondents who have written us 

 on the subject. 



Animals Received at Central! Park Menagerie for the 

 Week Emoino JtLN'B X8TFI.— :! bluek-hiindod spider monkeys 

 Alclc-\ hdit-hulli), mother and baby, presented by Mr. Joseph 

 Jeffries, Brooklyn. 1 pineho monkey (Midas t«Zipu.»), I gray- 

 breasted parrakeet (Bolborhynchus monachiui)^h&b. Argentine 

 public, 6 ring-necked parrakeets (Potaearais Uyrquattls); all pur- 

 chased. 2 banded buzzard hawks (Asturina playiata), lmb. Mexico, 

 presented by Capt. W. Powis Gladwin, steamship Arftm. 1 black 

 hangnest (CasrtdiT. oryziwora), hab. Mexico, pui-chased.; v l mocking 

 bird and 1 gold finch, presented by Mr. William Whalin. 1 horned 

 toad, presented by Mrs. E. R. MoOarty. 



W. A. Conklin, Director. 



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BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FISHERY EXHIBITION. 



THE PRIZliS AWARDED. 



ON the 17th of June all was done in strict accordance, 

 and at the exact time laid down in the printed pro- 

 gramme, the directors, commissioners and exhibitors 

 assembled in the rotunda, or " Grotto of Neptune," at 12, 

 and the Crown Prince appeared at 1 p.m. Minister 

 Lucius stated to the, Prince the object of the gathering 

 and requested him to sanction the awards as read, and 

 then the Honorary President, Heir Marcard, read them 

 as follows :— 



I. ADDRESSES OF THANKS. 



The united juries have determined not to award a prize 

 of honor nor medal to the government of any nation for 

 its collective exhibition, but, instead of this, an address 

 Of thanks, signed by las Imperial Highness, the Crown 

 Prince, will be substituted. These addresses have been 

 awarded to the following countries : Russia, Italy, 

 Saxony, Denmark, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Switzer- 

 land, the United States of North Arnericn, China and 

 Japan. 



n, ORAND PRIZES OF HONOR. 



1. First grand prize of honor given by His Majesty, the 

 German Emperor and King of Prussia : To Professor 

 Spencer F. Baird, Commissioner of Fisheries of the 

 United States of North America, Washington, I), C. 



2. Second grand prize of honor given by His Majesty 

 the German Emperor and King of Prussia : To Herr C. 

 Lindenberg, Berlin. 



3. Third prize of honor of the Emperor, etc.: To Herr 

 von dem Borne, Bemeuchen. 



4. Prize of honor given by Her Majesty the German 

 Empress and Queen of Prussia : To Cavuier Guiseeppe 

 Maaza, Torre del Greco, 



o. Prize of honor of their Highnesses the Crown 

 Prince and Princess of Germany and Prussia : To Ober- 

 burgermeister Carl Schuster, Freiburg (Baden). 



6. Prize of honor of His Majesty the King of Wurtcm- 

 burg : To Professor Arrhenius, Stockholm. 



7. Prize of honor of the Grand Duke of Baden : To 

 Consul A. E. Mass, Scheveningen, Holland. 



8. Prize of honor of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg- 

 Schwerin : To Prof. Dr. Dorhn, of the Zoological Station, 

 Naples. 



9. Prize of honor of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg "• 

 To Herr A. Stortenbecker, Director of the Institution for 

 the Promotion of Religion and Industry of Hollandish- 

 India, Batavia. 



10. Prize of honor of the Free City of Hamburg : To 

 Herr Robert Eokardt, Lubbmchen. 



11. Prize of honor of the Free City of Bremen: To 

 Herr Harald W. Fiedler, Sterrede. 



13. Prize of honor of the Agricultural Club of Berlin : 

 To Selskabet for de Norske Fiskeriers Jjrenime in Bergen. 



13. Prize of honor of the Teltower Agricultural So- 

 ciety : To Herr A. Micha, Berlin. 



(These constitute the special prizes, and as the entire 

 prize list is too long for publication it may be as well to 

 give only the American prizes, first staling that tin 

 medals are not graded, but that all gold, silver, or bronze 

 medals are of the same rank as others of the same ma- 

 terial. The names are taken from the official list and are 

 given alphabetically,) 



HI. GOLD MEDALS WITH SPECIAL DIPLOMA. 



United States Department of Finance, Coast Survey — 

 For illustration of the apparatus used in the deep sea 

 fisheries observations ; coast charts of the Atlantic and 

 Pacific oceans : publications and maps. 



United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Wash- 

 ington — For grand collective exhibit of implements of 

 fish culture, tishways, charts, models of hatching houses 

 and publications. 



IT. CLASS I, 



This class includes all water animals whether living, 

 stuffed, in alcohol, or represented by pictures ; foodn, 

 prepared or dried, salted, smoked, powdered, in tin 

 boxes or in process of preparation ; sponges, corals, oys- 

 ters and their anatomy ; mussels, pearls, mother-of-pearl, 

 radiates, worms, insects and their larvee (as food for fish 

 or destroyers of their eggs and young), crustaceans, 

 fishes, amphibians, turtles and tortoises, tortoise-shell in 

 different processes of preparation, salamanders, frogs 

 and snakes ; water birds, mammals living in water, and 

 all the products of water animals. 



Gold Medals in Class I.— Isinglass and Glue Com- 

 pany, Gloucester, Mass. — Fish bladders and fish glue, to- 

 gether with the different preparations therefrom. 



United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Wash- 

 ington, D, C. — General exhibition of implements of pur- 

 suit and capture of fishes. 



Silver Medals pn Class I.— Alaska Commercial Com- 

 pany, San Francisco — Pictures illustrating the seal rook- 

 eries of Alaska ; specimens of skins of fur-seal from the 

 raw, dried skin to the same when dyed and finished. 



Capt. E. A. Atwood, Provincetown, Mass.— Oil of 

 mammals, as harbor-seal, cowfish, porpoise, blackfish, 

 jaw of porpoise, etc. 



J. W. Beardsley's Sons, 179 West street, New York- 

 Dry -salted preparations : "Beardsley's Shredded Cod- 

 fish," " Beehive Brand Boneless Codfish ;" smoked prepa- 

 rations : " Star Brand Boneless Herring." 



E. G. Blackford, 72 to 80 Fulton Market, New York- 

 Specimens of fresh fish sent weekly, as brook trout, gray- 

 ling, red snappers, pompano, striped bass : reptiles aiid 

 batrachians : great American edible bull-frogs, hell-bend- 

 ers and salamanders. 



A, Booth & Co., Chicago and San Francisco — Canned 

 salmon ; entire salmon in tin fish-shaped box. 



Potter and Wrightington, Boston— Smoked prepara- 

 tion : halibut, boneless herring, salmon ; cooked prepara- 

 tions, in cans : fresh mackerel, fresh lobster. 



Portland Packing Company, Portland, Me.— Cooked 

 preparations, in cans: "Fresh Seguin Mackerel, Star 

 Brand," "The Farmers' Old Orchard Beach Clams' 

 (Little Necks, star brand). 



Russia Cement Company. Rockport, Mass. —Liquid fish 

 glue (Le Page's). 



Rosenstein Brothers, 332 Greenwioh street, New York 

 — Preparations in spices or -vinegar : sardines in mustard, 

 " Sardines Royales Arornatiques " (in spices). 



H. K. andF, B. Thurber & Co., New York— Collection 

 of prepared foods, in tin : " Genuine Georges Bank Cod- 

 fish," whole fresh mackerel, "Deep Sea Mackerel," "One 

 Pound Fancy Mackerel" selected bloaters (mackerel), 

 canned lobster (Egmont Bay), 



Prof. Henry A. Ward, Rochester, New York— Collec- 

 tion of stuffed fishes and marine mammals, skeletons, 

 reptiles, etc. 



— Hazedorn, Hamburg and New York — Fresh Ameri- 

 can oysters. 



Bronze Medals in Class I.— J, H. Bartlett & Son, 

 New Bedford, Mass. — Mammal oils : whale oil " foots," 

 bleached winter sperm. 



J. B. McCarley, Fulton Market, New York, oysters 

 and conserves— pickled oysters, pickled Little Neck 

 clams, pickled soft clams, pickled scallops, pickled mus- 

 sels, pickled oyster crabs. 



Caleb Cook, Provincetown, Mass., mammal oils— oils 

 from head of blackfish (sold as " porpoise jaw "), oil from 

 the beluga (white whale), watch oil, clock oil. 



A. W. Dodd, Gloucester, Mass., mammal oils— black- 

 fish. Fish oils — oil from livers of codfish, medicinal 

 ditto. 



Heick and Stoll, Hamburg, Germany, American oys- 

 ters. 

 W. R. Lewis & Co., Boston, canned salmon. 

 Joseph Palmer, Taxidermist and Modeller to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, Washington, D. C, zoological prepa- 

 rations—series of plaster casts of American food fishes, 

 collection of stuffed aquatic mammals, collection of 

 stuffed aquatic birds. 



Jasper Pryor, New York, mammal oils — sea elephant, 

 crude whale, natural whale, bleached whale, whale oil 

 (toots). Oda used for lamps, lubrication or medicinal- 

 crude sperm, natural sperm, spermaceti. 

 J. Schmidt, New York, food preparations— (not speci- 



F. W, Smillie, Photographer to the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, Washington, D. O, series of photographs of 

 American fishes. 



William Underwood & Co., Boston, cooked prepara- 

 tions in cans — "fresh codfish," " fresh haddock," canned 

 mackerel, preserved fresh halibut. 



W. H. Wonson & Co., Gloucester, Mass., smoked fish — 

 " Grand Bank halibut," " Newfoundland halibut." 



Honorable Mention.— Max Ams & Co., 370 Green- 

 wich street, New York, pickled or brine preparations — 

 " American Caviare." 



H. M. Anthony, 104 Reade street, New York, "Fresh 

 Columbia River Salmon " (canned), " Star Brand," Eureka 

 Packing Co., San Francisco. 



A. Booth & Co., Baltimore, Chicago and San Francisco, 

 canned s alm on in large and small boxes — " Oregon 

 Salmon." 



Howe and French, Boston, materials used in the arts 

 — fish isinglass made from the hake, 



Kemp, Day & Co., llli Wall street, New York, cooked 

 preparations in cans — canned mackerel, canned lobster, 

 canned oysters, Orchard Beach clams. Little Neck clams, 



Marvin Brothers and Bartlett, Portsmouth, N. H.— oil 

 of porpoise, oil from liver of sun-fish (Mola -rotunda), 

 " Pure Cod-liver Oil," steariue from cod-liver oil. 



Maryland Packing Co., Baltimore, Md.— canned hard 

 crabs. 



McMenamin & Co., Hampton, Va.— canned hard crabs, 

 canned " deviled " crabs. 



Franklin, Snow & Co., Boston, dry salted preparations: 

 — cod. Pickle, or brine salted preparations — haddock. 

 Cooked, in cans — mackerel. 



S. Schmidt, New Xork — pickled eels in jelly. 



Livingston Stone, Charlestown, N, H. — specimens of 

 salmon eggs (S. quinnat) in alcohol. 



CLASS n. 



Fishery apparatus of all sorts in original or in model. 

 Boats for inland and sea fisheries in model or in picture. 

 Material for apparatus in different stages of construction. 

 Machines or implements for working the raw material, 



Gold Medals in Class II.— H. L. Leonard, Bangor, 

 Me. — rods of split bamboo for salmon, trout or base fish- 

 ing ; pieces of bamboo showing splitting process. 



Silver Medals in Class II.— James Everson, 489 

 First street, Brooklyn, E. D., N. Y.— the "Shadow 

 Canoe," with sails for fishing, hunting or cruising. 



Wilcox, Crittenden & Co., Middletown, Conn.— gen- 

 eral collection of accessories to the rigging of fishing 

 vessels, as clews and hanks, chocks, boat-hooks, belay- 

 ing pins, riggers, hooks, grommets, etc. 



Honorable Mention in Class II.— Capt. J. W, Col- 

 lins, assistant to the United States Fish Commission, 

 Gloucester, Mass. Collin's Adjustable Marine Drag ; 

 used by vessels when " laying-to " in a storm. 



class in. 



The artificial culture of aquatic animals. Breeding ap- 

 paratus in operation, collective exhibits of apparatus and 

 implements used in the culture of fish, crustaceans and 

 oysters, transporting apparatus for fry, models, or pic- 

 tures of approved hatching houses ; models, or pictures 

 of apparatus for fish protection, as fish ways, etc. Aquaria/, 

 Development of aquatic animals, as oysters, fish, crabs, 

 etc. Exhibition of the progress of fish culture. 



Gold Medals in Class HI.— C. G. Atkins, assistant 

 to the United States Fish Commission, Buckaport, Me. 

 Model of United States Balmon-breeding house at Bucks- 

 port. Me. Models of implements, trough, etc., used in 

 American fish culture. Models of fish ways. 



T. B. Ferguson, assistant .to the United States Fish 

 Commission and Commissioner of Fisheries of the State 

 of Maryland, Baltimore, Md. For improvement in fish 

 cultural apparatus and invention of plunging baskets, 

 worked by steam power, for shad hatching, as shown in 

 model of United States fish-hatching steamer Fish Hawk, 

 and also in original. 



S. Green, Superintendent of Fisheries of the State of 

 New York, Rochester, N. Y. Collective exhibition of 

 implements in use by the New York Fish Commission 

 for hatching salmonidce and shad, floating hatching box 

 and "Hoi ton Box." 



M. McDonald, Commissioner of Fisheries of the State 

 of Virginia, Lexington, Va. Improvement in fish way. 



F. Mather, assistant to the United State Pish Commis- 

 sion, Newark, N, J. Invention of conical apparatus for 

 fish hatching (original shown). Apparatus for sending 

 fish eggs across the ocean. 



L. Stone, assistant to the United States Fish Commis- 

 sion, Charleston, N. H. Models of fish cultural appa- 

 ratus. 



Silver Medals is Class III.— O. M. Chase, assistant 

 to the Michigan Fish Commission, Detroit, Mich. " Self- 

 picking '' apparatus for whitefisb (Coref/onus) eggs, 

 whereby the dead ones flow out. 



Bronze Medals in Class III.— B. F. Shaw, Commis- 

 sioner of Fisheries of the State of Iowa, Anamosa, Iowa, 

 Model of his patent spiral ftshway. 



Honorable Mention in Class III.— J. Annin, Jr., 

 Caledonia, N. Y. Box for sending trout eggs to Europe. 

 Successful sending of 3,000 eggs, which were presented 

 to the Deutsche Fischerei Verein. 



T. N. Clark, North ville, Mich. Lnprovement in fish 

 cultural apparatus, "Clark's Hatching Box, 

 picking " attachment to cone hatchers. 

 class rv. 



Apparatus for transporting adult fish to market or for 

 other purposes, in model or original, (No gold or silver 

 medal for America in this class.) 



Bronze Medals is Class IV.— F, Mather, Assistant 

 to the United States Fish Commission, Newark, N. J., 

 improvement in transporting apparatus for use at sea, 

 whereby the motion is utilizjd for aeration. 



(Nothing for America in class V.) 



CLASS VI. 



Models of fishermen's houses and costumes and such 

 implements in use as have not been placed in other 



Silver Medals in Class VI.— C. S. Merriman, £41 

 Broadway, New York. The "Merriman Lifi 

 Suit," as "in use by the United States Life Saving 



United States" Commission of Fish and 1 

 Washington, D. C, collection of fishermen's 

 implements, and tools used in the commercial fisheries 

 and in angling. 



Bronze Medals in Class VI.— H. D. Ostermoor, Wow 

 York, patent elastic felt mattrass and life preserver. 



(Nothing for America in classes VII, and VIH.) 



