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THE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN'S JOURNAL. 



Entered According to Act of Congress, In the year lssi, by the Forest and Stream Publishing Company, in the office of the Librarian of congress, at Washington. 



^ZtitZU^hi^oZKr'} NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1881. { N „ 9 . 39 .^VSMw, *«„ y ort . 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial :— 



Game Fishoa ; Eastern Field Trials ; A Dog Is Personal 

 Property ; Bye-Ways of the Northwest 323 



The Sportsman Totjhibt :— 



The People of the Pines; Autobiographical Fragments— II. ; 

 A Night Hunt ; A Winter Walk Through Bermuda ; Tim 

 Pond aud the Seven Ponds 325 



Natural History:— 



Changed In the Cradle ; Fish and Frog Showers j Strategy 

 vs. Strength 328 



Game Bag and Gun : — 

 The Game of Mineral Mountain ; "Some Old Gnus that I 

 Have Shot ;" The Squirrel Hunt ; Hunting Kabbits for 

 their Meat ; Substitutes for Pigeons in Trap Shooting j 

 Successful Rochester Sportsmen ; Maine Wardens and 

 Visiting Sportsmen ; Bust Spots in Gun Barrels ; Game 

 in New Jersey ; Philadelphia Notes ; The Decrease of 

 Game Birds ; State Pigeon Tournaments j Dakota Terri- 

 tory Game ; Wild-fowl at Moutauk. 329 



Sea and Biver Fishing : — 



The English Fly-Casting Tournament 338 



Fishoultube :— 

 Carp Besiat Quick-Lime in the Pond ; New York Fish Com- 

 mission ; Land-looked Salmon in Connecticut 333 



The Kennel : — 



The Eastern Field Trials Entries ; The "Forest and Stream" 

 Cup ; Classification at Field Trials ; He Had a Hang Dog 

 Look ; Training vs. Breaking ; The. Flea 334 



Bifle and Trap Shoomnq :— 



The Creedmoor Season of 1881 337 



Yachting and Canoeino : . . . . — „ 337 



Answers to Correspondents 333 



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FOREST AND STREAM. 



Thursday, November 24. 



DO NOT FOBGET 

 That a year's subscription to the Forest and Stream is a niOBt 

 appropriate holiday gift for a gentleman. 



What Am Ton Going To Do About It ?— In the season, 

 •which means from the end of November to the first of Febru- 

 ary, every steamer to Europe takes out from one hundred to 

 five hundred barrels of game — quail, grouse and partridges- 

 each barrel containing about 200 pounds of game, and stated 

 to be of an average value of $70. If aoy one wants to know 

 what ib becoming of the game, the answer is here. We are 

 feeding Europe with American game birds. It is a big con- 

 tract. The supply of birds on this side of the water can 

 hardly be expected to equal the annually growing market for 

 it abroad. Another question of moment is, what measures, 

 if any, can be taken to stop this wholesale exportation of 

 game? Is there any practical movement to abate the 

 destruction of American game ? Or, must American sports- 

 men see the annihilation of quail, grouse and partridge ? 

 "What can be done about it ? 



On job Nobth Carolina.— " Jacobstaff," with Capt, 

 R. C. Johnson and Dr. J. B. Burdett, Btarted last Saturday 

 for Currituck, via the Old Dominion line of steamers. 



GAME FISHES. 



"DEADERS of Forest and Stream may have seen during 

 -*-v th e p^ t wo y ears references to a publication by 

 Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, of a work called "Game 

 Fishes of the United States," by S. A. Kilbourne and G. 

 Brown Goode, but no extended notice has been made of it. 

 The work was conceived on a grand scale, and has been faith- 

 fully carried out, until it can truly be said that it is the most 

 sumptuous work ever offered to the lovers of angling, and 

 one which will take rank with Audubon's "Birds of North 

 America," Wolf's "Wild Animals," and Gould's "Humming 

 Birds," if it does not exceed them in many respects. The 

 book has never been advertised, but was sold by subscription, 

 and only one thousand copies were printed. The stones 

 have bten destroyed and the entire edition sold with the ex- 

 ception of about ten copies. Under these circumstances we 

 feel it to be a duty to our readers in distant parts, who can- 

 not have been reached by the canvassing agents, to give 

 some description of this great work in older that they may 

 avail themselves of the opportunity to secure a copy before 

 the edition is exhausted. As we have said ; the workhasnot 

 been advertised, nor has any newspaper received a copy to 

 review, but the sales have been quietly made by exhibiting 

 the work to those likely to be interested, and have sold readily. 

 It was published in ten parts, at five dollars each. The 

 plates aretwenty in number, andare 22x28 inches, beingexact 

 reproductions by litLograph, in water-colors, of y 



the late S. A. Kilbourne, who was acknowledged to be the 

 best delineator of fishes in this, or aoy other, country. Mr. 

 Kilbourne's drawings were criticised by ichthyologists of the 

 Smithsonian Institution before being finished, and therefore 

 the plates have ichthyological, as well as artistic value ; and 

 the form is perfect to the detail of every fin-ray, as truly as 

 the fish is represented in color. 



The text which accompanies the plates was prepared by 

 Professor G. Brown Goode, well known to our readers as one 

 of our first ichthyologists, and is original throughout and so 

 far superior to anything which has ever appeared in ordinary 

 angling books that no comparison can be made. It includes 

 biographies of nearly all the important fishes of North Amer- 

 ica, comprising species not illustrated, and, where a fish is 

 not illustrated by a large plate and has a near relative which 

 resembles it, Prof. Goode gives an engraving of it. Thus, 

 while Kilbourne gives a picture of one of the black basses 

 Prof. Goode supplies engravings, eight inches loDg, of each 

 species, side by side. The same is true of the pompano, and 

 and the striped bass and its cousin, the white bass, from the 

 Lskes. The text is in large type, on rich-toned, calendered 

 paper, the size of the plates. There is also a map of North 

 America, colored after an original plan, showing the geograph- 

 ical distribution of each species, and a complete list of the 

 game fishes of the continent, nearly one hundred in number, 

 with a synonymy of common names and definitions of their 

 geographical distribution, which greatly add to the value of 

 tbe work, and will be found of great use for reference. 



The large colored plates are: The Atlantic salmon; the 

 Eastern red-speckled trout; the large-mouth black bass; 

 the Spanish mackerel; the striped bass, or rockfish; the red 

 snapper; the blueflsh; the yellow perch; the mackerel; the 

 squeteague, or weakfish (Southern sea trout); the seabass, 

 or Souihern blackfish; the pompano; the sheepshead ; the 

 kingfish; the lake, or salmon trout; thebonito; the gray- 

 ling; the red drum, or channel bass; the quinnat, or Califor- 

 nia salmon, and the musquallonge. 



Mr. Kilbourne's work was ODly beginning to be recognized 

 as that of a truthful painter of flsbes, and he had been asked 

 to accept a position in the Smithsonian Institution, when 

 his last sickness overcame him. He did not survive to see 

 all of his work for Scribner's reproduced. He left a few 

 other paintingB of fish, a list of which we gave a short time 

 ago. We feel confident that many of our readers will be glad 

 to know the character of " The Game Fishes of the United 

 States," and also to be reminded that the edition is about ex- 

 hausted, and the plates are destroyed. We write this purely 

 in their interest, for the work has not been advertised nor 

 has any attempt been made by the publishers to attract 

 attention through the press, and we have had many inquiries 

 concerning it. We unhesitatingly pronounce it the finest 

 work ever presented to the angling world, in any land. 



EASTERN FIELD TRIALS. 



THE third annual meeting of the E istern Field Trials 

 Club begin on Bobbins' Island, this Thursday, Thauks- 

 giving Day. The Island has been greatly improved since 

 last year, large portions of the terrible brier thickets have 

 been cut down, and patches of grain sown in many places, 

 which will more uniformly distribute the birds over the 

 Island. Other great improvements have been made, which 

 we shall notice more fully next week. There is a large 

 number of well grown birds on the grounds that were bred 

 there, besides those that the association h ive purchased and 

 turned down. One hundred of these will be kept in coop, 

 to be let loose should there be any scarcity toward the close 

 of the meeting. 



The club have made arrangements with Capt. Smith, of 

 Springfield, Mass., to be at the meeting with the steam 

 pleasure tug Calla, to transport the participants to and from 

 the Island. 



The hospitable inhabitants of New Suffolk have gener- 

 ously thrown open their houses, and there need be no fears 

 that all cannot be accommodated. McNith's hotel will be 

 headquarters, and can accommodate a large number. Mr. 

 McNish has lately taken a partner, and will devote all of his 

 lime to the care of his guests. 



That this meeting will be a memorab'e one, we have 

 every reason to believe. We have received very many let- 

 ter from all parts of the country from sportsmen, who will 

 be present ; and we can safely say that the attendance will 

 far exceed that of any previous event of the kind that has 

 taken place in this country. 



The judges are all well-known as gentlemen of integrity 

 and probity, and, what is of far greater importance, they are 

 without exception sportsmen, whose experience in the field 

 particularly flis 1 hem for their responsible positions. Hon. 

 E. H. Eathrop, of Springfield, Mass., is as well and favor- 

 ably known throughout the country as any sportsman of 

 of New England. He has had a large and varied experience 

 in the field in all sections of the Eastern States, as well as in 

 many portions of the West ; and both by nature and acquire- 

 ments is thoroughly competent to intelligently discharge the 

 duties of the position. Mr. Justus Von Lengerke, of New 

 York, who so acceptably performod his duties as judge at 

 the meeting last year, needs no introduction to our readers 

 as his indefatigable labors and display of " hunting sense " 

 was chronicled at the time. Mr. T. F. Taylor, of Richmond, 

 Va., is well-known as a thorough sportsman, and is well 

 qualified for the position. Mr. J. M. Kinney, of Staunton, 

 Va., we have known for years. He has long been a valuec 

 contributor to Ihe columns of the Forest and Stream; and 

 some of the best articles upon field sports that we have ever 

 published came from his pen. His long experience afield 

 abundantly qualifies him to acceptably perform his duties. 



It is no more than we can expect that the disappointec 

 contestants should feel chagrined at their defeat, but if the; 

 will only put themselves in the other fellow's place, or ever 

 view the performances as disinterested spectators, we av 

 no fears that any serious "kicking " against the decisions 

 the judges will mar the harmony of the meeting; and 

 defeated participants will carefully study the causes that 

 to defeat, and profit by the lesson learned, the great objec 

 of field trials will be accomplished. 



The Atlanta Tournament.— The managers of the Atlant 

 Cotton Exposition have resolved to put the conduct of the rifl 

 tournament, to be held in connection with ihe Exposition 

 in the hands of Ihe officers of the Gate City Guard, a battal 

 ion of volunteers in the city of Atlanta. This take3 the 

 matter out of the hands of the National Rifle Association 

 This may prove to be apolitic move, for the Gite City Gu irds 

 men have shown energy and will in other directions. Thej 

 ought to be able to secure the attendance of a team of Nevi 

 York City Guardsmen, if for nothing more than to rene'w 

 the friendly recollections of the Gate City Guard's visit tc 

 this city some months since. 



Early Rising.— The early bird catches the worm. There 

 are other inducements to early rising in New York city. 

 8ome of the tenement houses are so rotten that they fall 

 downearly in the raornimj. It pays a niaa to get up aud out 



