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FOREST AND STREAM. 



I'Oct. 26, 1882. 



Tue pafebs on ' 'Bird Migration in tbe Mississippi Valley, " 

 the last of which appealed in last weei's issue, have proved 

 of great interest to ornithologists. The observations of Mr. 

 Widmann have been conducted with greal care, sad the in- 

 telligent way in which these notes have been made and col- 

 lected reflects greal credit on the two gentlemen by whom 

 the paper was prepared. It is io be regretted that the list 

 includes only the Fasfflrm, for we should have been glad to 

 see a similar series of observations carried out i'or all our 

 birds. It is to be hoped that the. plan adopted by Mr. VVid- 

 nianu. or something similar to it. may be adopted by other 

 BDllecldrs, and thai through such efforts an intelligent com- 

 prehension of the phenomena of migration may ere long lie 

 had. It is discouraging to think of the vast afljottnt of 

 energy that, is wasted by the ill-directed and unintelligent, 

 though sincere and earnest., efforts df observers in all fields 

 ol M-ienee. The pTese.nl observations are far in advauee of 

 ino.st of those made by collector's, and we are glad Io know 

 that they are to lie continued. We are glad to learn 

 that Mr. Cooke purpose-; next BGason to conduct a similar 

 series of observations. He desires that any and all persons 

 residing iu the valley of Ibe Mississippi "Who are willing to 

 keep notes of the movements and doings of birds, communi- 

 cate with him at ouee by postal card. His address at pres- 

 ent is .Jefferson, Wisconsin, We have now in band another 

 s ries of notes on the same subject; from the pen of Mr. 

 Cooke, which we shall shortly lay before our readers. 



Woodcock are now making their appearance in New 

 England. 



THE AUTrMX EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS, 

 Tf RID AY last being Varnishing day at, the Academy, the 



figures are lifelike, and we expect every moment to hear the 

 report of the gun. Portrait of the late William B. Astor 

 (after death) (347) is a very carefully pointed miniature try 

 Carl L. Brandt. "Grandmother'' (323), by P. T. Ryder, is a 

 capital picture of an old woman sitting by a stove. "All's 

 Welt that Ends Well" (268) represents a frog Sitting ,,ii the 

 edge of an overturned bucket, about to spring at a grasshop- 

 per impaled upon a fish-hook. The picture, although unpre- 

 tentious, is very time to nature as well as amusing. "The 

 Milkmaid" (183). by Leon Moran, is a young girl wandering 

 through the Melds. The figure is very well drawn, and the 

 'he Studio" (lflSfj, by Perey Moran, 

 painting the last named picture, 

 is very good, but the whole effect 

 rf the North Gallery hangs t'.lash- 

 -an Arabian woman in a street 

 n a cup of water. The peculiar light effects 

 atmosphere are remarkably well shown, 



effect is very pleasing, 

 represents his brother Lei 



in his studio. The drawii 

 is cold. On the west wal 

 field's "Modern Rebeeeu 

 handing a 

 of the hot 



E 



press was allowed a private view from 2 until 5 o'clock. 



after the contributors had put the Anal touches to their 

 work';. 



We are not able to ascertain exactly why this special au- 

 tumn exhibition of paintings is held, but it seems probable 

 that the rejection of so many works of merit last year, ou 

 account of want of space, had a good deal to do with this fall 

 showing, The idea, we believe, is to have an exhibition, in 

 the autumn , of work done by the artists during the summer, 

 so that the regular spring exhibition will simply be of fall 

 and venter work. 



The present display of pictures shows that the artists have 

 been busy during the summer, and that they have done a 

 great deal of work, much of which is very creditable. 



There are several works that are quite remarkable, the 

 most impressive of which, we think, is "Planting Rape in 

 Normandy." This occupies the place of honor on the large 

 south wall. The picture represents a number of men and 

 women working on a hillside, the men ploughing, the women 

 bending over and planting the seed. The whole effect of 

 this picture is remarkable. The figures are very strongly 

 painted, the atmosphere is very fine, and the light 

 on the horses gives a very realistic appearance to the 

 whole. To the left of this is a picture of two children blow- 

 ing bubbles, by Doop, which we think is much below his or- 

 dinary work. 



On the north wall is u very ambitious picture by James 

 Powell Hey—' 'The Vivgi n Mary and Mary Magdalene at the 

 Tomb of Our Saviour." This picture comes very near to be- 

 ing a masterpiece. No, 880 is a pretty picture of "Deer in the 

 Adirondacks," by A. F. Tait. No. 371 is "Maternal Solicitude," 

 also by Tait. This picture is very good, with the exception of 

 the St. Bernard dog, which is very badly drawn. No. 3811, 

 "Among the Weeds," by J. CI. Buren, is a picture. 

 of a very pretty girl, admirably painted. No. 3:i7, 

 "Clearing Up," by Do Haas, is a veiy vigorous seascape. 

 "Disappointment" (3S:i), by Charles Sprague Pierce, repre- 

 sents a woman in the last century. The texture of the silk and 

 bice is extremely well brought out. ''An Accident" (844), by 

 M. J. Shaw, shows a serving maid who has just broken a vase. 

 The interior is excellent, and the expression of fear and regret 



the horses are very well painted, and the figure of the black 

 one which the rider is leading shows the pure Arabian blood. 

 "Dai's no Place like Home" (170), by Alfred Kapps, is a scene 

 in a Southern cabin. Supper is just over, and the old aunty 

 is about to clear off the table, while her husband has just 

 taken 'down his banjo to have a little music after the hard 

 day's work. The whole effect of the picture is very Warm 

 and pleasing to the eye. "Sunset ou Lake Conway" (170), 

 by Georgiue Campbell, is a charming picture; the twilight 

 atmosphere is exceedingly well rendered. "Ophelia" (132), by 

 Clarence Boyd, is an attempt at a very difficult subject, and a 

 failure. An "English Roadside Scene." (157), by G. J. F. Crop- 

 sey, is a line subject, but the effect of the picture is marred 

 by the coloring, which is very untrue to nature. 



In the corridor, "Mexican Cattlemen" (117), by William 

 Halm, shows us two vaqucros treated in a very lifelike way. 

 The cattle are excellently painted, and the atmospheric effects 

 extremely good. "Smoked Bloater" (93), by Milne Ramsey, 

 is capitally painted; one could almost imagine the real fish to 

 be hanging before him. Mr. N. N. 'steam, "Hairy and Sheila" 

 C.ni, by Carl J. Becker, shows us a neat little team of trotters. 

 'In the Rye Field" (87), by Carl Otto, is a hue example of the 

 Munich school: the. sunlight glinting through the standing iye 

 produces a very charming effect. "Begging at the Monastery" 

 (14), by C. Milender, is another example of the Munich school. 

 The figures are all capitally painted, but the beggars, with the 

 exception of the old man who is at the door, all seem very 

 cheerful. 



We have noted only a few of the more striking pictures 

 among many excellent works. We think, on the whole, that 

 it is a good idea to inaugurate tnis autumn exhibition, 

 and certainly the number of good works here represented 

 ought to be very gratifying to those who have promoted it. 

 Of" course the standard of work is not up to that of the spring 

 exhibitions, but still we hope that the results will be suf- 

 ficiently encouraging to induce the management to make the 

 fall exhibition a permanent thing. 



tere 



outside powers was in this case, as in that little attempt oM 

 ISfil, demonstrated to be a failure. The "union" being a 

 necessity, it. was effected and preserved on succeeding 

 nights until a relief party brought blankets from the distant 

 lumber camp. 



On Thursday, Miner, while ou a tour of exploration, dis- 

 covered a little crystal spring-wafer lake, teeming witM 

 speckled trout, and Kerdcll discovered his little mink trap 

 closed and teeming with what the Indians call "seecaw™ 

 and we all discovered six million cubic feet of atmospher 

 about, camp seemingly just as teeming with "seecawk"S 

 the trap was. Brady walked cautiously down to the trii) 

 and fired two rille balls in quick succession through th( 

 k's" head and "ran for deal' life." It was a long 

 time before any of the party dared attempt to extricate hiri 

 (not Brady but the sccca'wk) from the trap, although I 

 seemed, to use an expression, "dead as a door nail." The 

 are smaller than the black bear but larger than WO cure I 

 handle iu large numbers, and Ihev are a wicked creature 

 meet face to face. The same animals roam the forests'! 

 New England tola certain extent, and arc much feared ant 



avoided by the bou ton. The natives spell him the 



s-k-u-n-k. ' This is shorter and we think just as correct. 



plenty about, lure. Rerdcll trapped a tine oil 

 y night. They march boldly into camp and ste 

 iges and fish, but we prefer to let them steal 

 •ather than trap any more "seeeawk 



Mink ar 

 W' educsd 

 our partr 

 their boa 

 We were 

 habit 



ised that 

 moose, we 

 s quite a valuable do; 

 ing to find Indian gui 



find our: 



mla 



•Ives in ra 

 Mc 



be; 



mild eerl 



bad pi 



... lli 



j the 



ulerl 



log was accustomed t 

 lylose him — so, as] 

 at, Pembroke, expect 

 ;. Failing in this, » 

 cament for eapluriu 

 e all about us in gre 

 nis tracks, but on a 

 ish and dense folia 

 of success. 



we are unable io still hunt with any d. „ 



4 house on the -shore of this hike, having a few 

 guides with dogs, would convert this locality into a spot 

 man';; paradise almost. 



The lake abounds with black bay; and 

 the Little Mntlawuskti, which empties int. 

 from our camp, is full of speckled trout of large size, as are 

 some of the small lakes or ponds just over the ridge back of 

 camp. Every marshy cove and small lake has its complo- I 

 incnt of black duck. * The woods furnish raffed grouse, sOJ 

 kle salt on their tails and • 

 lick. WT 



ut, an 

 ■nc mile 



ol get the 

 the lake 



Ha< 



•apt 



np 



at a qu 



th Thompson 1 ! 

 ayiarersiu the. 



ar old country 

 mot by the inn 

 and on the narrow 

 >ers, who regard the 

 figures are extremely 

 •kably well painted. 



on the face of the girl is admirable. Wc 

 "The Belated Travelers" (838) represents 

 costume of the Revolution, st 

 tovern. The leader of the party is 

 keeper, who wears a white peruke, 

 verandah are seated two or three traj 

 travelers with an air of suspicion. Th. 

 life-like and the whole picture remi 

 "The Fox Family" (828) is by I. Sellmayer. Tnis pictu 

 represents a vixen surrounded by four or five cubs near the 

 hole in a wood. The fur is extremely realistic, and the ex- 

 pression on the face of one of the little ones, whose, attention 

 is attracted to a squirrel on the limb above him, is very life- 

 like and amusing. The only criticism to be made on the 

 picture is the drawing ot the hind leg of one of the cubs, which 

 is faulty. "Preparing for a Shave" (880), by E. L. Henry, 

 small canvas, wouderl'ully paintel, after the style of 

 Meissonier. ''Widowhood" (itil), by Constant Meyer, is a fine 

 subject, but is not well treated, the figure being poorly 

 drawn. "The Duet" (307), by J. G. Brown, represents an old 

 man instructing a boy on a, violin. The subject, is well 

 treated in the artist's usual happy style. "A Future Poet" 

 (84o)j by Douglas Volk, represents the young aspirant in a 

 hay loft with a pile of books and some flowers on a box 

 before him. On his face is a very peculiar expression, 

 which is conjectured to be the outward and visible 

 sign of the true poetic lire which smolders in his breast. 

 "On the Thames, near Gravesend, England," (3371 is 

 a canvas treated in Arthur Quartley's best manner. 

 "My Old Hunting Ground." by A. F. Tait, represents a scene 

 in the Adirondack?. The artist and a companion, seated in a 

 canoe, are aiming from behind some rocks at deer on Che oppo- 

 site side of the pond, The atmospheric effect is very good, the 



W& Syortmtim Sonri§t 



"NUTMEGGERS" ON THE OTTAWA. 



TUIHD FAFEH. 



MONDAY, the 35th, wc left our tent, on the north shore 

 and crossed the lake to our present camp, in a boa 

 very kindly placed at our disposal by Mr. Geo. 11. Roches 

 ter, who is just establishing a lumber camp a few miles bi 

 yond us. Our camp is a very comfortable one i'or the 

 nights, being a log-cabin 30x30, 

 timber roof, with smoke hole in 

 neath, fift.xH. The internal an 

 so far as convenience is conccri 

 lated to delight the heart of an 

 cellar, kitchen, dining-room, pa 

 the sleeping rooms arc on the &. 



30x30. Ah open tire in every room, and wcrj room so 

 closely connected that the creaking and slamming of doors 

 is an idler impossibility. Our first duty upon arriving was 

 to arrange and bough down our bunks, chluk up the cabin, 

 start a fire, build table and scats, arrange our china closet, 

 make customary remarks about previous tenants, etc,, etc. 

 Our party use 'sleeping bags, and are very favorably im- 

 pressed with their superiority over blankets. They are 

 especially valuable to "kickers" in a cold night. Gin's are 

 made seven feet long by two feet six inches wide, with six 

 pounds of batting quilted in between the cotton lining and 

 flannel covering. Duties about camp are performed aitef- 



with good tight f 

 center, and tircpla.ee under- 

 insement of our new home, 

 ■able, and calcu- 

 tfiakeeper. The 



•y, parlor and all 



led, is adrr 



y young he 

 ntrv, libr 

 rat floor, ; 



natelv by the diffc 

 eiders himself a fb 



all II.-., sv, oil dinn. 

 team follow mm 

 road was too mu 

 miles back, and 



of the party, Bai 

 rsl-class cook, though Miner, by reason of 

 snee in camj. life, is called upon to get up 

 lera. Arrangements were made to have a 

 ith canoe and supplies, but, unluckily, the 

 •h I'or the wagon, and it broke down twenty 

 upplies came through without the canoe. 



that wc could al 

 knock them off the troi 

 for deer, and not wish! 

 grouse around with stii 

 salt, we. of course, did 

 lent flavor grow all ahc 

 This, of course, brings 

 year in great numbers, 

 have had no difficulty i 



Wc discovered a cranberry 

 from camp. Cranberries we have afway 

 valuable acquisition to camp life, at 

 dilations when taking in our supply 

 a cranberry swamp, partridge with 

 dish which, like a popular drama, will bear" repealing 

 draw a full house every time, with frequent and hei 

 encore. 



Fishing about here, as we said before, is excellent, inconja 

 parable. We are told that a little Frenchman from some of i 

 the lower settlements came up here last fall, caught anmi 

 salted fourteen barrels of speckled trout and black bass. ;. 

 The distance from a settlement and the difficulty in gettinjK 



tion for parties who contemplate camping with ladies; bill 

 for gentlemen who are not particularly out of health, wfti 



lization. We would not come again, and wc would not ad- 

 vise others to, without an Indian guide, with dogs and bear 

 traps. It is somewhat aggravating Io i'ecl and "know that 

 in the midst of as good a game country for bear, 



moose and deer, as the 

 ind still lack the two a 



3 to 



cticlei 



ne 



hunter and trapper would think of 

 still hunting, we arc told that one h 

 who is known all over Ontario as tl 

 shot seventy-four deer last winter ii 

 ten days. This seems like a cruel 

 certainly was, but Io those who 

 northern wilderness, extending on I 

 and beyond, and to the Pacific coas 



as quoted above seems utterly impc 

 Canada has within the past th 

 lethargic sleep, and awakened t 



North America affordffl 



tarv to eaptiu-e them;,' 

 still hunting could be 

 t dogs; but then the weal 

 ., and none -but the pracl 

 of camping. SpcakiiiL 

 ic hunter, Ilaskins by name, 

 is theohamj' 



tiem. 

 g Of 



dew-slayiH 

 .. n inside oi 

 ,-ruel slaughter, as ilk 

 ive visited this great 

 north to Hudson Bay 

 m the West, the idea 

 eh fearful slaughters 

 ble for ages to corfltt, 

 • years thrown off her 

 ,;. realizing sense of the 



magnitude of her domini 



adl milage of railroad en 



are under construction 



embraced iu the fond i 



Gould or Yanderbill live years ago. Since tj 



or union of the Provinces, the Dominion of G 



braces more territory than the whole of the. LI. 



„, and to the importance anW 



prise. More miles of railroad 

 3-day than would have bejfl 

 urinative dream of a Canadian 



■i 1. -ration 

 .ada em- 



getl to use the boat which is a little "logy" for 

 fast traveling.' 



On Tuesday our party came near being financially and 

 physically wrecked. A'litlle spark full of incendiary inten- 

 tions found a resting place in the soft cotton of Brady's 

 sleeping hag, made, a total wreck of it. and set fire to the 

 cabin. . Luckily it was extinguished before the remaining; 

 bedding, provisions, or the "■'sale deposit vaults" were 



upon the face of it lo be such a heavy financial embarasa- 

 meut, but that a person of Brady's constitution and nerve 

 ought to bear up under it, but he seemed to take the matter 

 quite to heart, and somewhat resented jocular remarks and 

 queries about which corner he proposed to stand up and 

 Bleep in for the next week or two, and carried about quite a 

 suicidal expression until bedtime, when Dorsey proposed 10 

 share his bag with him. Now a two-foot-six bag is a very 

 comfortable" fit for one man, but it required considerable 

 outside pressure to force in a second one; nevertheless the 

 feat was accomplished, not without remonstrances and inur- 

 muriugs from the occupants, but they soon Unmd that then 

 was no room for argument, and scarcely room lor alternate 

 respiration, and (he rigid of secession without the aid ol 



llions of population 



settled on a strip of land say 100 miles in wi 

 southern boundary, thus leaving the great i 

 an unbroken wilderness, dotted here and thcr 

 sioual squatter, settler or trapper. Of corns, 

 the lumberman are visible, for go where yi 

 earth, you arc pretty sure to fln( I that tlie'l 

 been there before you. Should Canada lakt 



nth 



she is now i 

 population I 



is a highly i 

 will still ha 

 withdraw I 



lakilie : 



night v 



irt to do, 



» th< 



rther 



•d States, 

 t wholly 

 long her 



and west 

 all oecir 

 :■ the marks 

 m will oniflfi 

 imbermaii hM* 

 a start, which 

 1 increase SH 

 1 States, which 

 ac of Canada 



.dually 



Pacific 



irae 



up 



■ii pail beiniiof to 



•ctilers to encroach upon. The 



liich wc will speak more fully h. 



id bring into market 



•;e proporl ion 



>arcd land ah 



•ing oats equal to tbe ueal I B 



s of W?w Er:d;:ud i ut io r< 



■apidly 



, sterile 



si— a lar 



When complete, 

 territory in Canada's s 

 excellent laud. We 

 Canada Pacific, bcari 

 and most fertile la 

 camp, twill pas. 



of another. One day iirady came near having a 

 private interview "with abuar. He was watching Wi 



in a lamarae swamp, when a hear approached I 



about twenty-flvc feet ef him, but lie was nearij hid 



view by the' thick underbrush. The bear's smelling 

 ... . (VC(1 llim a good turn, and a loud SUOl'l and inn 



