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CONTENTS. 



Editorial : — 

 ,Tordan'n Manual of the Vertebrates ; How Fish EggS Differ; 

 Book of the Black Bass ; Salmonidai of the Upper Colum- 

 bia ; The Warwick Club ; The Encampment Hotel ; Bye- 



ways of the Northwest 1 



Tub Spobtsmax Tourist :— 



, The Prospectors' Dinner ; A Jolly Fishiug Party on Keuka 

 Lake; Posf-Prandial 'Possum : "From Moosehoad Lake to 



the Main St. John, Part II....! 6 



Natural History:— 



Why Does the Crab Go Sideways ? The Hoop Snake 7 



Game Bag and Gun :— 



Game Seasons ; Prairie Chicken Shooting ; Our Detroit Let- 

 ter ; Hints in the Art of Duck Shootiug ; Babbit Taking to 



Water 9 



Sea and Biver Fishing :— 



New Fishes in New Places ; Black Bass Fishing Near New 

 York : Tarpon or Tarpum ? Fishing in Western New York ; 



The Herring 10 



Fish Culture : — 

 Filamcui'iiiis Appendages of Ova; Shad Eggs Will Not Hatch 



in Salt Water 12 



The Kennel : — 

 Our London Letter ; The Castration of Dogs ; Death of 



Countess Boyal 12 



Kii'le and Trap Shooting 14 



Yachting and Canoeing :— 



Power of Judges ; End Ho ! Quaker City Y. C. ; Begattas 



and Yachting News 16 



Answers to Correspondents 17 



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JORDAN'S MANUAL OF THE VERTE- 

 BRATES. 



A THIRD edition of this valuable work has been issued, 

 and those who wish to identify beasts, birds, reptiles 

 or fishes which may be found in the district east of the Mis- 

 sissippi River and north of North Carolina and Tennessee, 

 exclusive of marine species, cannot afford to be without it. 

 It has been enlarged and improved, and all species which 

 have been added to the fauna since the former additions ap- 

 pear here. 



The fishes include forms found beyond the lines mentioned 

 and include the Salmon ids? of the Pacific coast and many 

 Southern forms. Professor Jordan is too well lenown to our 

 readers to need any introduction and his work needs no 

 praise. Former editions have been thoroughly reviewed in 

 our columns, and we have said that we use it constantly as a 

 book of reference, especially in the department of fishes. 

 Bach edition improves upon the former ones and is therefore 

 welcome. The author is a constant worker and embodies the 

 results of his recent labors in a new edition of his " Manual," 

 It is published by Jansen, McClurg & Co., Chicago. Price, 

 $2.50. 



Trot Nova Sootia License Feb for nou -residents has been 

 reduced from $50 to $30. 



HOW FISH EGGS DIFFER. 



THE communication trom Mr. John A. Ryder, Embry- 

 ologist of the United States Fish Commission, which 

 we publish to-day, will be found to be of interest to the gen- 

 eral reader as well as to fisbculturists and zoologists. It 

 will give the general reader who has no knowledge of fish- 

 culture an idea of the troubles that may beset the fishcul- 

 turist when he attempts to hatch a fish whose embryology is 

 new to him. 



That fishes differ in their modes of reproduction as widely 

 as birds and mammals do is not generally known outside of 

 those who have given special attention to it. The facts are 

 that the treatment which will hatch a trout egg will not do 

 at all for the egg of the shad, and each family of fishes, and 

 sometimes eacli species in a family, require to be studied and 

 special devices discovered whereby they may be hatched. 

 To bring this forcibly to the mind of those who may have 

 supposed that the eggs of fishes were as nearly alike as those 

 of birds, and might therefore receive the same general atten- 

 tion, we will say that young shad placed in a trough where 

 trout are reared would probably not live an hour, or longer 

 than a young colt would if it were placed under ground where 

 the fox is reared. 



Mr. Ryder's investigations are very valuable to the student 

 of embryology and to naturalists in general, and his notes on 

 viviparity of the cyprinodonts ('the common " killy-fishes" of 

 ' brackish water) are of a nature to stimulate our anxiety to 

 learn more of these curious fishes. 



BOOK OF THE BLACK BASS. 



DOCTOR HENSHALL has given the angler a book 

 which, as tlieoystermen say, is " full measure and solid 

 meat."* 



It is a large 12 mo. of 460 pages, all of which are filled 

 with both scientific and practical information, and none are 

 given to fancy writing or the poetry of the art. Part I. in- 

 cludes the terminology, morphology and physiology of the 

 species ; part II., tools, tackle and implements, and part III., 

 angling and fly-fishing. In the first part a change i3 made 

 in the nomenclature. The small-mouthed bass is called 

 Micropterus dolomieu, instead of M. salmoides, and the latter 

 name is transferred to the big mouth, which has been recently 

 called pallidum. This raises questions of priority which we 

 had hoped were definitely settled, but it need not affect the 

 angler in the least. The names of " big mouth " and " small 

 mouth," which are so descriptive, will stand for ages, while 

 the learned men wrangle about which fish Lacepede, Cuvier 

 and Valenciennes intended the name for half a century and 

 more ago. The reasons for these changes are too long to 

 give here, and we will carefully watch to see what naturalists 

 say on this subject and who are inclined to follow the Doctor. 



This book will have a large sale in all parts of the country 

 and will help to kill off those abominable local misnomers 

 which obtain in some parts for these fishes, as "trout," 

 " chub," Oswego bass," etc., as well as that other notion that 

 one is a "true" black bass and the other a false or fraudu- 

 lent one. These things are dying out among the better in- 

 formed anglers, but still feebly live in isolated sections. Two 

 original figures are given by which any observant angler can 

 distinguish which species he has caught, if he will notice the 

 relative extension of the mouth to or beyond a line dropped 

 from the posterior portion of the eye. As an angler Dr. 

 Henshall is enthusiastic on the subject of his favorite fishes, 

 and regards them as the great fresh water game fishes of the 

 future, after the trout streams are depopulated, which he 

 thinks will be before long. He gives as a reason for the 

 black bass having been ignored so long the fact that we have 

 derived our notions of game fish and fishing from British 

 writers who, not having the subject of our story in their 

 land, naturally class the salmon and the trout as the best of 

 game. Dr. Henshall boldly proclaims the bass to be the peer 

 of auy fish for game qualities, and whether one agree with 

 him or not he cannot help admiring the manner of his enter- 

 ing the lists as a champion of the one on whom he pins his 

 faith. 



* Book | of the | Black Bass | comprising Its complete I Scientific 

 and Life History | together with a practical Uvailw- mi I Angling and 

 Ply Fishing | and a full description of | Tools, Tackle and Implements 

 | by 1 James A. Henshall, M. D. I — I " I am, Sift a brother of the 

 Angle.'— Izaak Walton | — | Fully Illustrated I < Incmnattl I Robert 

 Clarke & Co. I issi 



The angling portion of the book is without doubt the best 

 thing ever written upon these fishes, for there are two distinct 

 fishes, although the Doctor usually speaks of them as " black 

 bass " without distinguishing them. It is clear and covers 

 the whole ground of the different modes of fishing, and is 

 accompanied by cuts of the manner of holding the rod, cast- 

 ing, and diagrams of the mode of throwing the fly, that it 

 seems to us as if the merest tyro could soon become an expert 

 by carefully reading this book and following its instructions. 

 Not only is it a book for the beginner, but it is ohe that no 

 angler can afford to do without. It fills a place too long 

 vacant and one that we would not allow to remain vacant 

 long on our own shelves. 



The Book of the Black Bass will be found to contain much 

 that is new and original on these fishes, and we have long be- 

 lieved with Dr. Henshall that the big mouth, when under 

 three pounds weight, is just as gamy and as hard a fighter as 

 his brother, although popular prejudice declares that this is 

 not so. A great charm in the book is the author's freedom 

 from conventionality and from the echoing of sentiments 

 which have become in sort orthodox opinions of angling 

 writers. Taking it as a whole we cannot speak too highly 

 of it. 



THE SALMONID^E OF THE UPPER 

 COLUMBIA. 



TjlROM advance sheets of "Proceedings of the United 

 -L States National Museum" we learn that our corres- 

 pondent, Capt. Chas. Bendire, U. S. A., has published notes 

 on the salmon family of the Upper Columbia. 



Our readers will remember that Capt. Bendire was foremost 

 in working up the so-called "red fish" of Idaho, figures of 

 which we published. He has recently sent the National 

 Museum a fine series of fish from the neighborhood of Fort 

 Walla Walla, which is pronounced by Prof. Jordan to be by 

 far the most valuable collection of fishes ever made in the 

 waters of the Upper Columbia. The series shows that the 

 blue-backed salmon or "red fish," which was supposed to be 

 a land-locked species and described as Oncorhynchus ken- 

 nerli/i, is merely the young breeding male or grilse of the 

 Oncorhynchus nerka, a fact not before suspected, according 

 to Jordan. 



Capt. Bendire says that every one out there now concedes 

 that the red fish is not a resident of the lakes wherein it is 

 found, and he is perfectly satisfied that they are anadromous 

 and not land-locked. How they get rid of the hump and 

 hooked nose, after going back to salt water, troubles him, as 

 he thinks they can't all die after spawning, for many of them 

 are of ten pounds weight and must have made more than one 

 trip to sea. A cut of the male fish accompanies the report 

 and shows a moderate hump and an enormous hooking of the 

 jaws. 



THE WARWICK CLUB. 



A LARGE party of gentlemen left Jersey City on Satur- 

 -£^- day morning last to attend the flag raising at the new 

 club house of the Warwick Club, in the Warwick Woodlands, 

 Greenwood Lake. The officers of the club are ; C. Olcott, 

 M. D., Brooklyn, President; Mr. A. 8. Roe, of Chaniuerlin, 

 Roe & Co., New York, Vice-President ; Mr. H. C. Cooke, of 

 Cooke Bros., New York, Treasurer ; Mr. Wm. O. McDowell, 

 of McDowell Bros. & Co., bankers, New York, Secretary. 

 Prominent among the numerous members are Hon. Abratn 

 S. Hewitt, Hon. Frederick A. Potts, of New Jersey ; Hon. 

 Gennett A. Hobart, of New Jeisey; Rev. Dr. Chas. F. 

 Deems, of New York ; Hon. John W. Taylor, Newark, N. 

 J.; Mr. P. W- Millspaugb, New York; Mr. Bird W. 

 Spencer, Treasurer Erie Railway, N. X.; Mr. C. N- Jordan, 

 Treasurer New York, Ontario and Western Railroad; Mr. 

 B. V. W. Taylor, the well known architect, Newark, N. J., 

 and Dr. J. A. Osborn, of Newark, N. J. 



The club house is a very handsome Gothic structure, situ- 

 ated on a rocky bluff about fifty feet above the lake, and 

 about one-eighth of a mile north of the landing. The di- 

 mensions of the two-story building are 64x42 feet, with 

 handsome piazzas and projections, which give it. a frontage ul 

 80 feet on the lake with a depth of 48 feet. 



The party upon their arrival scattered through the rough 

 imbered grounds of the famous Warwick Woodland to ad- 



