284 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



[F<rv. 0. 1882. 



Protoiwtaruieitrea— Prothonotary Warbli r.— (8)5, 5, nest o, 

 eggs 6, 9. 

 Haminihophagamjuxfptlla -Nasi vilic VY>ulor.^ v iaiu- 38. 

 Ilelminthoplttigti ,Mm/r/e.'— Tennessee Warbler.— (12) 5, 22. 

 Hdminthopkaga eetatn — OrangOrOrawnefl rTo-ruler.— (8) 



4, 27, abundant ' !5. 1; (12: 5, 14 



Dendrtmt <Wtfw»— Summer AVllow Bird.— (8) 4, 22; (0) 



5, 5; (11) 5. 9; (iaj 5, 14; N. N.. 5, 17. eggs 6. 9. 

 Sl„ph„,/,i r«rcv7/«— Redstart.- Cb 4. ;.T. t'.ij h, 10; (11)5. 



11; (12)5, 28; N. N. R, 37. 



Pmarceea Mmk.ieni.i— Black-Thtdated Blue Warbler. — 

 1-M. MB, 1881, 



Dr/uirara c&rowta — Yellow-Rump AVnrbler. — (8) 4 17: 

 (6)4, 86 to 5, 8j (11)4. I; (12) I, 17. 



Dtndram llackhumim — Blaokhnrninn Warbler. — (11) 5, 

 N; (12) 5, 24. ^ 



Dnalmea .itriata— Black-Poll Warbler.— (11) 5, 8: (12) .i, 

 24. . 



Dendraca pm nwfoa/lltet— Chestnut-Sided Warbler. — (6) 4, 



26 to 5. 8; (11) r,. 11; .",. 24. 



Dead nmi miiruli'Sti— Black and Yellow Warbler.— (13) 5, 

 l). 1881. 



Dendraxa palmarum— Red-Poll Warbler.- <()) 4, 2(i to 5, 

 2: (11)5, 4; (12)5, 3. 



Sittnisatrrkapilliis— Golden-Crowned Thrush.— (11) 5, 6; 

 (12) 5. 18. 



Wit run iitalaeilhi— Larire-Billed Water Thrush.— (8) 4, 21, 

 again 4, 24. 



$iurv» nmius— Bmall-BUled Water Timish.— (12) 5, 20. 



UfinrornisjWmm,!— Kentucky Warbler. — (8) 5. 4. 



GeBtftfyph trirhiH— Maryland Yellow Throat.— (3) 5, 1; 

 (12) 5, 38, 



tcti ■n'n n'lriin— Yellow Breasted Chat.— (3) nesting 5,22, 

 t'dlS. 3; (4)5, 17. 



JUjfiodioctet pu»iUus— Black-Gapped Yellow Warbler.— (11) 

 5, 7: (12)5,14. V 



•^V&totylt , U a— Red-Eyed Vireo.— (12) 5. 21. 



]■;,;. wfoia gttoa— garbling Vireo.— (3)4, 27. 



, //.-r/f'/v,,,,— Yellow-Throated Vireo.— (3)5,4; (12) 

 5. 30. 



Vireo vowborariwiii— White-Eyed Vireo.— (3) 5. 0; (12) 5. 



Fmm belli— Belt's Vireo.— (3) 5. 2. 

 v Until/* honvlis— Great Northern Shrike.— (1) W. R. 

 1 scarce; (3) W. B.j (9) W. R.; (10) W. R. ; (ll)found in mild 

 winters, 4, 2; (12) AY. R. iu thick wooded swamps. First 

 seen on prairie, 4, 21. 



Lanim hiilovieianux— Logger-Headed Shrike,— (2) VV. R. ; 

 (6) 3, 36, N, N. 4, 4. 



-l/;/;.f//,v g„)-rit!ity— Noitheru Waxwiug.— (8) W. 8.; (4) 



' W. S. rather rare; (9) The Bohemian visits this locality in 



abundance about once in live or six years. The Inst time in 



'79-80; (10) W. R. abundant; (111 W, S, ; (12) W. R. seen 2. 



Antjkli.i a d rovtt in— Cedar Waxwing.— :2) AV. R., collected 



J in flocks and moved north Feb. 21-24; (3) 5, 28; <4i W. It.. 



flocks came the first week in February; (9) W. R., one flock 



'80-81 on authority of a taxidermist of Boone; (11 2, 7; (12) 



5, 24. " ' " 



I'rot/oe « UbfS— Purple Martin.— (1) 3. 4; (2)3, 6; (8)3 17' 

 4 I 3. 9, N. N.. 3. 15; (5) 3, 30; (6) 4, S; (9) 4, 3; (10) 4, 26; 

 (12) 4, 19. 



Utiun. liiMfronH—CVS Swallow.— ;3i nesting ,"., 20; 

 (9) 4, 20; (12) 4. 26. 



Hinnula en/throi/a./ra—Baru Swallow (4| 4. 30; (10)4, 17; 

 (12) have not seen one during thiee years residence. 



TaeJtyamtti bitohr— White-Bellied Swallow.— (3i 5, (i; (4l 

 5,5; (11)4,39, 



(Mile riprriti— Bank Swaliow.— (3)8, 24; (9) 5, 30; (12) 



4. 28. 



■i.t,n/r serriji, ,1 ,i/x— Botiiih- Winged Swallow.— (11) 



5, 7. 



Pyraiwa rubra— Scarlet Tanager.— (2) 4, 10: (3)5, 5; U) 

 4, 24; (12) 5, 21, 1881 almost rare, 



[to be concluded.] 



PINE GROSBEAKS IN CONFINEMENT. 



Kditur Forest and Ntr-cir: 



Theertienjfh inl.T.-sihu,' l,io«rapbv ot the ptue ifrnslieuk {Pint- 

 ,;,la tHiiclentr,r\ which appears in vi.nr issue nf Nov. 2, units to 'mini) 



a il.-ltKhtitjl article on Ihissj. „■- in L-apuiiitv, which von published, 



I thilik. during the winter of 18X0. Mv nle of Foiikst"akd Stiuum is 

 Incomplete, so that T cannot give the exact date. < 'an ye i i 



The sketch alluded to was published in our issue of Alarch 

 18, 1880, and was as follows: 



Yesterday f saw three of these beautiful birds industriously 

 picking Up their dinner in a patch of weeds. They were 

 quite tame, and 1 drove within twenty feet of theui, and 

 paused quite a Willie to observe and admire them, as they 

 are old friends of mine. Four years ago they were quite 

 plenty i" this vicinity, and a large flock of them came regu- 

 larly every morning to feast upon some frozen apples licit 

 hung on a tree within ten feet of my window. They were 

 very tame, and sang so sweetly that'l determined to capture 

 soma of (hem if possible. Fixing a slipnoose upon the end 

 of a ftshpole I succeeded in roping in a pair of them; the 

 male was a young one, and the female I judged to be two or 

 three years old. There was an old male in the flock, gor- 

 geous witli his beautiful scarlet plumage, that 1 tried very 

 hard to eaptsre; but he was too wary for me. I got the 

 noose over his head several times, but' he would twist out of 

 it with scarcely an effort, and never move from his perch 

 nor cease his cheerful song, lie always appeared glad to 

 see ine, and to be quite interested in mv experiments; he 

 would nod and wink at me in the moat knowing manner in 

 the world, but, in spite of mv best efforts, he preserved his 

 liberty, and after a. few days'l saw him no more; 



The pair that I had captured I placed in a large breeding 

 cnge that, was about three feet squatc. They diifnot appear 

 to beat all alarmed, but took kindly to their new home and 

 at once commenced eating, anil in less than an hour they 

 were twittering and singing, happy and contented. For 

 many weeks they appeared to thoroughly enjoy themselves, 

 and ' became so" tame that when 1 let them out in Ihe 

 Toom they would fearlessly alight upon my head or shoulder 

 and feed from my hand, 'l never saw such beautiful feath 

 credpets; they kept almost a constant song from an early 

 dawn until every one in the house had retired lor the night. 

 Their song was not loud, but very sweet and musical. 



We wen- all very happy in ll'ieir companionship until, 

 alas! one fatal day,' inspired by my evil genius, 1 brought 

 home a newly made kingbird's nest and carefully placed it 

 in one corner of their cage, and all of us gathered around to 

 see what they would do. The male did not pay much 



attention to it, but after a cursory glance settled down 

 on his perch and resumed his song. The female 

 from the lirst appeared to be very much interested ; 

 her eyes glistened, and her head kept bobbins and turn- 

 ing' and as soon as the nest was in place she hopped up 

 and perched upon its edge and critically examined every 

 portion of it. She appeared very much 'pleased, and with 

 alcvr expressive chirp alighted upon the perch, and with 

 many knowing nods and smirks and pretty little ruffling 

 of her feathers, she sidled up to her companion, all the 

 while, talking and crooning iu her most silvery accents, and 

 throwing her wing over him lovingly nestled close to his 

 side, and in dulcet tones, with drooping head was sweetly 

 murmuring 1he "old, old sforv," when he— the heartless 

 brute — awkwardly backed out from her lovins embrace, 

 and nonchalantly walking over to the Feed disl 

 eating. With a plaintive chirp s 

 ardently pressed her suit, but win 

 WOUld retreat, and after several t 

 he took refuge in one corner bell 

 with a despairing glance at the 



followed him up ami 

 she approached Mm he 



Is witli no belter result, 

 j the bath dish. Then, 

 loved nest overhead, with 



each particular feather standing on end, and with a harsh, 

 discordant croak that plainly said r-r-r-cvenge, she went for 

 hirn tooth and nail, aud whacked and banged him round 

 until, fearing for his life, 1 interfered and made her desist. 

 No sooner did 1 take my hand from the cage than this in- 

 carnate fury pitched into him again, and "1 was obliged to 

 separate them. 



After a week of solitary confinement, during which 

 neither of them uttered a single note of soug, I returned 

 him to the cage with her. No sooner bad I shut the door 

 than, with dilated eyes and open mouth, this virago went 

 for him again and knocked him clear across the cage. 1 

 picked up a little stick and struck her two or three times 

 and made her leave him. He had been very meet: and for- 

 bearing up to this time, not making the least show of re- 

 sistance; but no sooner did he see tire effect of my punish- 

 ment upon her than he boldly asserted his manhood and 

 bravely sailed in and gave her a thrashing that completely 

 subdued her. 



There was no quarreling after this. She sulked and moped 

 in her corner, refusing food and drink, and a few (lavs after 

 we found her dead, a victim of blighted affection." After 

 she was gone a change came over the male; he uttered no 

 sound save a mournful chirp, aud appeared to miss his com- 

 panion sadly, lie gradually pined away, and in less than 

 two weeks we •'laid him gently by her side." I do not pro- 

 pose, to adorn my simple tale witli a moral, but cannot for- 

 bear expressing the Lope, dear reader, that neither your end 

 nor mine may be like this. Su'irnnT. 



SeiiiNr.Fip.Li,, Mass., Jan. 15. 



Bkebdinu Quail rx Conpihembnt 



Pa.. Nov. 3.— I have read the articles ii 

 gard to breeding quail in confinement, f 

 tell you what wc are doing in this part 

 it. Mr. Jacob Spath had a cock aud tw 

 in n room about ten feet square, and r 

 four eggs four birds that are now a; 

 He believes that the reason he did not i 

 both hens occupied the same nest and 

 each other, lie fed them nothing but 

 year he intends to raise them on a larg 

 to raise their nests oil: of the ground, as 

 birds fly up. 1 think this will demon 

 bebreu iu confinement. — Ed. Staymas 



— Boiling Spring 

 l y oar paper in r 

 uid I would like t_ 

 if the world toward 

 o hen birds confined 

 sed from twenty- 

 tame as chickens. 

 ise more was that 

 ere often fighting 

 icreenings. Next 

 scale; he is going 

 _j confinement the 

 'trate that quail can 



Imife §ng m\d 0m^ 



Open Seasons. — tiee tabk nfopm .v,'.i„a.sjhr f/ame and ftih 

 in is«ue "fJi'l;/ 20. 



A MOOSE MONOLOGUE. 



AS T take great pleasure in reading hunting and fishing 

 excursions in the Foisest and StueaM, and the old 

 proverb is that example is better than precept, I now put in 

 my paddle, since it is not fair to sit in the bow aud shoot 

 all the time (no genuine practical hunter use oars). 



Aboul ten years ago 1 was lumbering in the forestof Nova 

 Scotia in company with John Harlow and Win. H. Mayo on 

 Bear River, which empties Into Digby Basin, on the oppo- 

 site side of Bay of Fuudy from St, Johns, N. B. Bear 

 River village is about four miles up the river. They have 

 a custom house 1 here, also a cusloiu h»use officer, with a 

 head clerk, and a clerk's devil, or. as they call him, '-tide 

 waiter." The principal business of these' three for a week 

 after I arrived with my canvas canoe was to find out what 

 the duty on that craft would be. But finally, after sending 

 to Col. Veats, in Digby, some ten miles away, they came 

 to the conclusion it: would only he two dollars and riftv 

 cents, as I had lived there as a neighbor five years. 



The height of my ambition had always been a moose hunt 

 in September. The method of calling moose is as follows: 

 Find an open, dry bog back in the forest some fifteen miles 

 from any settlers.' Make a horn of birch bark similar to an 

 old-fashion tin dinner horn, and then just at dark sit down 

 in the middle of the hog (it: wants two hunters to be success- 

 ful), then lake your bark horn and imitate the noise made 

 by a cow moose, and if there is a moose within hearing of 

 tile horn he will come out. on the bog. The first full moon 

 in September is the best and only time in the year to hunt 

 with the horn. By listening to the advice of John Harlow 

 [ missed two falls, by being too late, There was always 

 "some business to do this week; but next week we will go," 

 was his cry. I had determined not to be late on this occa- 

 sion, solsaid, "John, are you ready to go moose hunting 

 with me next Monday." 



"No, Hi, 1 cannot go Monday, but if you will wait until 

 Wednesday 1 will go then. I have soine work to do on 

 Copland's house; shall get it done by Wednesday." 



"Now, John Harlow, that was just the way last year, and 

 you know how we tramped around in them wet bogs with 

 cloudy sky; wind Mowed all night, and we did not get any 

 moose meat, You cannot plav that on nte this year. If 

 can't go Monday, 1 will try Obediah Parker."* 

 How are von. Obediah, what are von doing down under 

 this old sawmill? Hallo, Thomas Sparr, you here, too? I 

 suppose you arc learning the millwright's trade with Obediah? 

 1 say. I am going after a moose Monday, and Harlow cannot 

 go, and I want one of you to go," 



"Well, Hiram, wc both want to go, but Franklin Rice 

 would not let us leave this mill all tore to pieces; anyhow, 



if l he water should rise iu the river it would take the dam 

 away, so we canuot go." 



"Tom Sparr. do you know where John Ties is? 1 am 

 going to try him; 1 guess he will tro." 



"Hiram, if I could not get anybody but lies, I would 

 stay at home." 



" 1 want you to understand I am going Monday if I live 

 aud have to go alone, and without, any gun, axe or knife, 

 yes, sir." 



"Good m»rning, Mr. lies ; how is it. are vou troubled 

 with the moose fever this fall." 



"Waives; 1 should like to call ujp another moose about 

 like tlu' one Jim Morehous,- and 1 gol last fall." 



"Mr. Hes, I come over to see if you would go wilh rue 

 next Monday. 1 am going back to the old moose ground by 

 the way of Uncle Joe Clark's." 



"Where is Harlow that he don't go?" 

 "Oh, he cannot go until Wednesday, and 1 told him I 

 would not put it off one day longer." 



"Wal, Mr. Mayo, I can't go Monday, but! will go Tues- 

 day. Old Uncle Billy Harris wanted me to go with him 

 next week. He says if he could kill one more moose, he 

 would be satisfied; you know old 'Squire Billy Harris, he 

 is about seventy." 



"Yes. I know him. but 1 never went with a crowd and 

 got any game yet; so I will go home aud take my chorebov, 

 Bill, about fifteen years old, to carry the axe, and we will 

 go on oar own hook. Yes, sir." 



"Alary, 1 have been the rounds, trying to get somebody 

 to go moose hunting with vnc Monday! and "everybody is 

 busy; so I am going to take little Bill Ilea to cany an axe, 

 and go alone. Bill, where is my lighl axe? I want you to 

 go over to Harden Chute's store and get me one and'a half 

 pounds of powder and a box of Waterproof cape, while I 

 take old Sweepstakes apart and clean her. Come, come; if 

 I am going to paddle this cai 06, just part your hair on the 

 other side or keep that tobacco on the other side of your 

 mouth, because it steers hard when you are over on one side; 

 so keep still, and we shall find game a little further up the 

 stream. Patience is everything, especially when you get 

 into a place that is so lonesome it makes Vou think it was 

 the last place ever made ou earth; then is 'the time ?,n old 

 hunter keeps his eves and ears open for large game. 



"Bill. Bill Hullo. iJili: Come, it is^daylighi. Get up 

 aud put on the teakettle. I want to get out to Joe Clark's 

 by seven o'clock, and we have got to pack a week's grub, a 

 hunk of pork, four loaves of bread, a little tea tied up in a 

 ret! flamiel bag, corned beef, salt tied up in a rag, brown 

 sugar in a tOlnatO can. mustard-box full of butter, blaekin«- 

 box full of angle-worms, frying-pan, a three-quart pail, belt 

 and sheath knife, two tin dippers, two tinny blankets, one 

 axe and gun, "And-we Started up the river on foot by Frank- 

 Rice's Mill to the road that leads to Clark's. This was Bill's 

 first moose hunt, and we felt gay that morning, especially 

 Bill. We passed Clark's about eight o'clock in the morning. 

 Uncle Jo came out and says: "Good morning. 1 suppose 

 you are going for a moose?" aud Bill spoke up and said 

 that was the calculation, which made Uncle Joe laugh out- 

 right, and then wished us good luck and a big moose. Then 

 we took the Maitland road, which is an old road that was 

 cut by the Government years ago to Maitland. a back settle- 

 ment of the south shore of Xova Scotia. We followed this 

 road until we struck the west branch of the South Still- 

 water, then followed up the stream (o three small lakes, 

 which we found when surveying and named Faith. Hope 

 and Charity, for the greatest of these is Charity. 



AVe found an open meadow near the stream where the 

 high water had killed the growth and everything was dry 

 stubs, limbs and dry underbrush. I told Bill 1 guessed we 

 would call here to-night; so we went in onto the high land. 

 built a fire, made tea, tousled some bread on a long- stick 

 and ate supper. Bill said that was as good a supper as he 

 wanted. I comprehended his talk thoroughly, because 1 

 had been in the woods before. It will give a person an 

 appetite to travel in the woods all day, lik'e a goat, and they 

 will eat anything. "Now, Bill, while 1 am making a moose 

 horn, you gather some dry wood, for we must go out on the 

 bog in about an hour, and when we .:ome back m the morn- 

 ing we shall want: breakfast without much work. I guess 

 it is going to be a good night for calling; the wind is going 

 down with the sun, and there will be a heavy frost to-night. 

 Bill, you fill that pail full of water to carry out on the bog, 

 while I cut a little spruce tree to stick up for us to sit under, 

 so when the moose comes, he will see the bush aud will mi 

 see us. Come, it is time we was out there; you take the two 

 blankets and water, I will take the (tree, and rifle, and horn. 

 Now. Bill, I want you to keep under them blankets and nut 

 make one mite of noise if a moose comes. Now, I will try 

 the horn: Wonr/li! wotig/tf w-o-v.~ff-/i. Eight o'clock and 

 not a s#und from any quarter; I will try again; Wovgh! 

 irnngh! irrittr//,,' No moose here, Bill. 



"I guess we are not far enough back in the forest. New- 

 ell's Bog is a good place. Then" did vou hear that, what 

 was it? It was a dry limb cracked, there it is again; it is a 

 young moose; he. is shy ; he will not come out in sight. 1 

 can always tell those young felllows. He will keep within 

 hearing all night. NiW, I will try the horn again: \\~,>ti-jh! 

 teoughl wuym tmougli! There, there is one coming. 



"Hoof into! hooah! That is au owl ; they are the bigesl 

 nuisance I know of when a fellow is calling moose. We 

 might as well get under Ihe blankets as to tiy any more; 

 that devilish owl will keep up his noise as long as we use 

 the horn. Hoo! Turn/ hooah. ' There he is again; I am going 

 to take a nap. Good night, Bill, if a bear takes you in the 

 night while I am asleep, you sing out." 



"You bet I will; say, is' there bears around here?" 

 "Yes, any amount of them, John lies and I killed an old 

 buster not five miles from here." 



"Do you suppose they will come after us to-night?" 

 "Oh, shut up your "hash-trap. I was almost asleep then; 

 you go to sleep, 1 will look out for all the hears, as long 

 as 1 have old Sweepstakes by my side. 



"It is ten o'clock; 1 must have a nap. Come Bill, turn out 

 and let us go in on the high land and gel breakfast. I have 

 been up more than an hour cruising around the head of the 

 bog looking for game. I found that moos;.' track that broke 

 the dry limbs last night. He was about a three-year-old. 

 After we get through breakfast and the sun takes "the dew 

 off the grass we. will go oyer to the head of the east branch, 

 called the Mississippi. I know of a big meadow there and 

 we will take thing's eai-.v, catch some trout, and get all ready 

 for fun to-night. Bill, where is that blacking box of angle 

 worms; I am "going to try for some trout. Oh what a lnig 

 one, did you see that? Give me auother worm. There, 

 that is som», lad, he is as much as fourteen inches long. 

 How many of them eau you get away with atone meal, 

 Bill?" 



