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year-old girl was among them. The 

 stork shook hands with her, too. Then 

 she ran beaming to her mother crying, 

 "Mamma! Mamma! he knew me again 

 at once !" — New York Evening Post. 



It is a good plan to have two guns 

 exactly alike, of course, in balance, 

 weight and in every particular. Some- 

 thing may happen to a gun at any time 

 and the sportsman who has a second 

 gun at hand which fits him will be glad 

 of it. Those who can afford to do so 

 should have two guns, exactly alike. 

 When they come to shoot at ducks or 

 pheasants in big numbers they can use 

 them both by having a loader present to 

 do the loading. The Parker Bros., 

 Meriden. Conn., make excellent shot- 

 guns. Write to them for a catalogue. 



A Good Book. 



BiW)s OF New York. By Elon Howard Eaton. 



Part 2. Land Birds. The University of the 



State of New York, Albany. 



This is the second volume of the splendid 

 \vork on the birds of New York. It is pub- 

 lished as memoir 12 of the New York State 

 Museum. 



The book opens with a chapter on bird 

 ecology or the relationship of birds to their 

 environment and their ability to adapt them- 

 selves to new conditions as they arise. There 

 are some useful hints for game preservers in 

 this chapter. We are told that private pre- 

 serves have been the salvation of many birds 

 and quadrupeds in various countries of Europe 

 and that this method of salvation is gaining 

 ground in America. 



The author takes the modern and the right 

 view about the handling and control of the 

 predacious species. He says, some hawks, in- 

 cluding the red-tailed hawk, and some owls 

 are more beneficial than harmful, but in some 

 cases they are found to do much damage. "If 

 a bird lover finds the red-tailed hawks are 

 destroying all the grouse in the coverts which 

 they frequent these particular hawks should be 

 removed from the scenes of their operations, 

 and the same principles should govern our at- 

 titude toward all those species on the doubtful 

 list. 



This is exactly what occurs on all of the 

 American preserves and the results due to the 

 control of the predacious birds and mammals 

 are found to be as highly satisfactory in this 

 country as they are abroad. The chapters on 

 the birds of prey are especially interesting. As 

 the author says, comparatively few persons 

 can distinguish the various species of hawks 



and other predacious birds, some of which do 

 more harm than others. It is wise to let the 

 farmer or game keeper decide what enemies 

 are destroying the game and they will deal 

 with them properly. 



There are few references to the game birds, 

 these having been fully described in Volume 1. 

 The pheasants, we are told, have been de- 

 structive in some localities, digging up the 

 newly planted corn, following the rows and 

 destroying each hill in succession. 



On the English preserves the sportsmen deal 

 fairly with the farmers. Scare-boys are em- 

 ployed to keep the pheasants out of the fields 

 when they are found to be doing much harm 

 and a fair sum is agreed to an'd paid willingly 

 by the sportsmen when the game evidently has 

 done any damage. 



The chapters on the song and insectivorous 

 birds will interest sportsmen who have country 

 places and who enjoy seeing the small birds 

 plentiful. The book is illustrated with many 

 half-tones of birds, nests, and eggs, and a 

 series of large color plates made from draw- 

 ings of L. A. Fuertes. This talented artist 

 has added much to the value of Mr. Eaton's 



great work. 



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A Double Victory. 



E. A. Randall, of Portland, ran away 

 from the field for the trapshooting 

 honors of the Maine State Shoot. He 

 not only won the State championship 

 with 99 X 100, but made his victory 

 more complete by winning the high gen- 

 eral average of the tournament, scoring 

 390 X 400. Throughout the entire meet 

 Mr. Randall used Remington-UMC Ar- 

 row Steel Lined Speed Shells. 



The Portland team — E. A. Randall, 

 S. B. Adams, G. A. Blanchard, W. D. 

 Hinds and O. P. Weymouth — all shoot- 

 ing Remington-UMC Nitro Club and 

 Arrow shells, carried off the honors in 

 the Interstate Team Match with a score 

 of 473 X 500. 



A feaure of the meet was Randall's 

 fine work the second day. He broke 

 199 of 200 birds and won easily from 

 the rest of the field. 



[Now that the "more game" movement is 

 decidedly on in New England we predict that 

 the aforesaid shooters soon will let fly a big 

 lot of arrows at pheasants, wild ducks, quail, 

 etc., etc. We expect to attend some big shoots 

 in New England next October, when there 

 will be more game killed than ever was known 

 in the land. — Editor.] 



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