Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, AUGUST 17, 188 2. 



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Editorial. 



The Match Preparation. 



Correct. Fish Nomenclature. 



Adirondack Survey Notes.— v. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



A Swamp Episode. 

 Natural History. 



The Florida "Thunder Worm." 



The Chesapeake Shore. 



Soruethir:;; aijfmt Wasps. 



The Hoop Snake Found. 

 Gasie Bag and Gun. 



Game in Season in August. 



'-';' i :l: - : i : .-J: Newfoundland 



"Far from the Madding Crowd." 



Game in South Carolina. 



Cobb's Island. 



A Chip of the Old Block. 

 Camp Fire Flickerings. 

 Ska and River FisaiNR. 



Fish in Season in August. 



With Hackles and Gentles. 



Surf Fishing. 



A Lone Fisherman in Canada. 



Weight of Rods. 



The Otsego Bass. 



,:'..," / ! . ' ' i'.ll l 



Trout in a Thunder Storm. 

 Fishing in Georgia. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Taking Mackerel for Oil. 



The English Anglers' Tourna- 

 ment. 

 VY,rjruLTUBE. 



A Long Journey with Bass and 

 Eels. 



! 'it''-: u:i:v I- ish^rie.-: '■ \ i : , ■ ,', 



tion. 



The American Fisheultural As- 

 sociation. 

 The Kennel. 



Count Paris. 



St. Bernard and Mastiff Impor- 

 tation. 



Howls about the Judges. 



Glasgow Dog Show. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Riele and Trap Shootino. 



The Coming Team. 



Ride Gallery Scores. 



Matches and Meetings. 

 Yachting and Canoelno. 



In our Tow. 



Oriva. 



New York Y. C— Annual Cruise 



Facts about the America. 

 Answers to CoRRSsrc ' ' i-: "i 



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THE MATCH PREPARATION, 

 "VT^ITH the past week the period for private practice and 



' * preparation on the part of American riflemen for places 

 on the team to represenl this country closed. There has 

 been ample time and notice to enable a thorough personal 

 drill in each case. The officers of the National Rifle Asso- 

 ciation have placed the time for presentation of candidates 

 as late as coulu safely be. done, and at Creedmoor. at least, 

 there have been plenty of matches in which military marks- 

 men could secure drill over the many ranges included in the 

 international match conditions. 



It is fair to say that the opportunities for preparation have 

 not been neglected. While there is no great furore over the 

 coming contest either on the part: of the National Guard or 

 of the public at large, there is an appreciation of the difficul- 

 ties of the fight which keep triflers out, and those who have 

 signified their intention of competing as candidates are 

 thoroughly in earnest, and are industrious in picking up 

 and applying the thousand and one precautions which go 

 into the making of a good score. 



The prospect is an encouraging one. In many of the 

 States there have been active measures on the part of the 

 authorities towards urging the men to take part in the pre- 

 liminary trials. There is a disposition on the part of the 

 military managers of such of the States as have a uniformed 

 force to get some of their men as representatives on the 

 team. Without inquiring into the chances of success or fail- 

 ure the feeling is in favor of making a good fight and show- 

 ing the strength of our marksmen. If that strength should 

 turn out to be weakness in comparison with the ability of 

 the Britishers, we may look for some sharp criticisms into the 

 tinsel and ginger bread which makes up much of our civi 

 military establishments. Indeed we are not quite certain 

 but thai a defeat of the home team is to be wished for if 

 we are to reap the full benefit of the contest, in directing at- 

 tention to what our militia really is and what it is not from a 

 military point of view. However, it is certain thatonr team 



will tight, to win. and comparison of scores with English 

 records are almost useless in any forecasting of the result, for 

 not, only are the targets different, but the weather conditions 

 under our dry, clear perhaps, toasting hot sky will puzzle the 

 visitors in no small degree. 



So far as rifles go there does not seem to be even the ground 

 to doubt but that our team will go into the fight with a 

 weapon in no way inferior to the Metford special rifle, which 

 has been so successfully used abroad. The. Remington 

 establishment has turned out a rifle which falls in every 

 particular within the conditions which curiously enough 

 presented a weapon which is neither an "army rifle" nor is 

 it a weapon which has ever been or ever will be issued to a 

 body of troops. It is neither fish nor fowl, neither a match 

 rifle nor a service rifle. Still, such as it is, the Remingtons 

 have given it every appliance which will enable fine work to 

 be accomplished. 



Careful selections and judicious practice for the period re- 

 maining before the match ought to give the American team 

 the odds in favor. There is much work to bo compressed 

 into the next month, but, fair luck and no blundering, there 

 is no reason why an American military team should not add 

 another to the long series of victories which the American 

 small bore men have won. 



CORRECT FISH NOMENCLATURE. 



THE New York Fish Commission has claimed to have in- 

 troduced into the State two species of trout from the 

 Pacific coast. With characteristic indifference to correct 

 nomenclature the Superintendent of the Commission kas 

 taken the liberty of rechristening his supposed different 

 species with names of his own coining. One he has called 

 "California mountain trout." We have doubled the posses- 

 sion of two species by the Commission for the reason that all 

 the Western trout which we have seen sent out by them, or 

 by the United States Fish Commission, have, been the rain- 

 bow trout, Snlmo triiVii, and no one who is competent to de- 

 cide has identified two species. We have stiid that if they 

 had ti second species it was probably the S. ckirldi, and might 

 properly be called "Clark's trout." Both fish are found in 

 the MeCloud River, therefore one is as much entitled to be 

 named from it as the other. As well might some Californian 

 tack on some new names to the striped bass, or rockfish, just 

 taken over by Mr. Woodbury, and call part of them "New 

 Jersey bass" and, if he thought he saw a shade difference in 

 color, the others "Shrewsbury River bass." 



We have striven hard toward a universal nomenclature, 

 believing in one name for one fish and one fish for one name, 

 and have objected to some Western Fish Commissioners, who 

 know better, calling the pike-perch a "salmon," in their re- 

 ports. We hold that it counts for nothing that the majority 

 of their readers call the fish "salmon" and will continue to 

 do so. It is their business to lead the public in the right di- 

 rection, not to follow it. The name of salmon has been ap- 

 plied to a certain lish for centuries in many parts of the world 

 and it is as much entitled to it as a cow is to her name, and no 

 people have a right to apply it to a fish not remotely related 

 to if. 



The great confusion in common names of fish and game 

 in America has arisen from the fact that the country was 

 settled in different parts by Europeans who brought their 

 names with them and applied them to the first fish or bird 

 which bore a f anci ed resemblance to those at home. Hence, as 

 they had the name of salmon, and no fish in the Susquehanna, 

 Mississippi and Ohio rivers to match it. they applied the 

 name to perch. So in the South the names of trout, chub, 

 and bream, all well-known fishes of England, and all of 

 which have fins with soft rays, have been applied to entirely 

 different fish, and, strangely enough, all to manthopti'tygm 

 fishes, or those which have fins with spinous rays. In Vir- 

 ginia the name "chub" is applied to the black bass, while in 

 Georgia and Florida the same fish becomes a "trout." In 

 Georgia the name of "bream" is used to designate a fish 

 which is one of the C-./dhirrMtk, a family which includes 

 the black bass and the sunfishes. In Massachusetts a little 

 spiny sunfish is also called "bream." 



Commissioners of Fisheries should see to it that local mis- 

 nomers should not be perpetuated, and it should be one of 

 their first qualifications for the office to know what are the 

 proper names, or as least an approximation to a proper name, 

 for tkeir fishes. Inthat case a commissioner would blush to 

 call a bass "trout," a lamprey a "lamper eel," a pike-perch 

 a "salmon," nor would he coin confusing names for new 

 Pacific, coast fishes which have been previously named, and 

 if he thought he had two species of fish in Ms ponds he 

 would submit them to some competent ichthyologist, and 



not only be certain that t bey were distinct but would learn 

 their correct, names. 



We are now interested to know what, common name, which 

 can be employed at the East, will be attached to another 

 species of Pacific trout, which will soon be brought here, 

 if not here already. We allude to the fish which we 

 have called IS. elarlii above, but which a better authority, 

 Prof. Jordan, now calls S. •piirpvraius, it having been de- 

 scribed by Richardson by the first name and by Pallas by 

 the last, now decided to be one and the same species. 

 It has been called "Oregon brook trout," a name, not descrip- 

 tive because Oregon has several brook trout; "salmon 

 trout," not good because preoccupied: "lake trout," ditto, 

 and "steel head." The latter name is also used for 8. gaird- 

 neri. The scientific nomenclature of the Pacific Salmonidm 

 has been much mixed, and is now only being cleared up, and 

 the common names are even more mixed. We think 

 "Clark's trout" a good one because it applies to no other, 

 but we do not care to become godfather to it, and ouly ask 

 that it have a good common name that our friends on the 

 Pacific coast use, and that a fair number of them will un- 

 derstand. On this fish Prof. Jordan writes us as follows: 

 Bloomington, lnd., Aug. B. 



In regard to an editorial note appended to a communication from 

 Mr. C. J. Smith, in a former issue. I think that you are right in say- 

 ing that all the black spotted trout introduced East are ,S. irldeiis. 1 

 believe the purpm-atus iclnrkii) to be the better fish for introduction. 

 It grows larger, is more gamy and flourishes in a far greater variety 

 of waters, and does especially well in lakes. I have known them to 

 reach a weight of twenty-five to thirty pounds, more than three times 

 the size of the largest irideiix I have seen. D, S. Jordan. 



We hope that it will prove a better fish than the much 

 vaunted rainbow trout for we have a, poor opinion of the 

 merits of the latter as either a table or an ornamental fish. 

 Its chief merit seems to consist in rapid growth and alleged 

 gaminess. Mr. Annin. and other anglers, dispute its posess- 

 ing the latter quality in a great degree, and any one, who 

 sees it perceives that it does not, compare with the fonUnalu 

 for beauty. 



In importing a fish let us import its proper name if it has 

 one, so that those who knew it in its original habitat will 

 recognize it when we have occasion to speak of it. What 

 would we think if the Calvfomians should call the eels which 

 they have recently taken from New York by some new and 

 absurd name? 



ISIorth Pond Association. — North Pond is an isolated 

 mountain loch, lying in a basin, snugly shelved under the 

 Percy Peaks, in Coos county. New Hampshire. The waters 

 are well-stocked with fine trout, and there is a variety of 

 game in the vicinity. An association has been formed, 

 which has secured by purchase the entire shore of North 

 Pond and its inlet. It is proposed to provide suitable camp 

 accommodations, and to maintain a private summer resort, 

 The gentlemen composing the club are Messrs. George P. 

 Howell, Prospect Farm, Lancaster. N. H., of the well- 

 known New York advertising agency; S. H. Kauffmann, 

 of the Star office, Washington, D. C. ; William D. Wilson, 

 of W. D. Wilson & Co., New York; Francis H. Leggett, of 

 Francis H. Leggett & Co., New York; Isaac W. England, 

 publisher of the Sun, New York-; Charles N. Kent, of Geo. 

 P. RowelUfc Co., 10 Spruce street, New York; Ossian Ray, 

 M. G, Washington, D. G, or Lancaster, N. H. We un- 

 derstand that the membership list is already filled. 



Where Will You Fdsd Its Equal? — With this issue 

 we present the index of the eighteenth volume of the For- 

 est and Stkeam. What wonderful stores of good things 

 are there enumerated! It, is a medley of grave and gay- 

 instruction and amusement, culled from a thousand and one 

 sources, and reflecting the best and truest type of American 

 sportsmanship. Accounts of shooting and angling excur- 

 sions, studies of nature's ways, animated discussions of the 

 ethics of sport, practical hints and helps, stories and inci- 

 dents—are there combined to fill the pages of the twenty-six 

 numbers making a semi-annual volume. Most heartily ac- 

 knowledging our obligations to the hosts of correspondents 

 who have thus contributed to the entertainment o f the fra- 

 ternity, we respectfully bespeak from them, as from the pub- 

 lic, a continued support; and we beg to express (somewhat 

 needlessly, perhaps,) our determination to maintain in the 

 future the high standard and worth of the paper. 



The American WdoD Powder Company.— This company , 

 recently organized, is composed of the following gentlemen : 

 Elliot Smith, president; Edmund C. Stanton, secretary and 

 treasurer; J. O. Donner. Paul L. Thebaud and Geo. De 

 Forest Grant, trustees; and Geo. T. Leach, Daniel G. 

 Elliott, Robert C. Cornell, and others. Several of these 



