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Some of my readers will remember that 

 in November Recreation I predicted the 

 month of October would yield 2,700 sub- 

 scriptions. It did not do so. However, it 

 came within 114 of it; and the showing is 

 a good one as compared with the corre- 

 sponding months in '95 and '96. 



PHOTOGRAPHS OF LIVE BIRDS AND 



ANIMALS. 



Mr. W. E. Carlin, who has been photo- 

 graphing and collecting natural history 

 specimens for Recreation, in Idaho and 

 Montana, during the past summer, has 

 lately returned to New York and has 

 brought with him about 400 negatives of 

 living wild animals, birds, reptiles, insects, 

 plants, etc., many of which are among the 

 finest ever made. Mr. W. H. Wright, of 

 Spokane, Wash., has been with Mr. Carlin, 

 all summer, and has rendered him material 

 and valuable aid in this work. 



These photos will be published in future 

 issues of Recreation, as fast as room can 

 be found for them, with notes relating to 

 the manner in which each picture was 

 made. These articles will bear the general 

 title of " Hunting with a Camera." 



Probably no man has ever done a more 

 thorough and systematic piece of work in 

 this line than this of Mr. Carlin's. Though 

 surrounded by big game and game birds, 

 all summer, he tells me he fired but one shot 

 during the entire season, and that at an elk 

 which his party needed for meat. 



Mr. Carlin is an enthusiastic sportsman 

 and an expert rifleman, and every man who 

 has ever been in a big game country can 

 appreciate the devotion he must have felt 

 for his art, when he could deny himself the 

 privilege of killing game, for the higher 

 purpose of photographing and studying it, 

 alive. 



Mr. Carlin's work is of untold value to 

 science and will prove deeply interesting 

 to every sportsman and every lover of nat- 

 ure. The first instalment of his new stock 

 of pictures is published in this issue. They 

 treat of the mountain chipmunk. 



This little animal was pursued and 

 caught, in the various positions and poses 

 shown here, at the cost of untold patience 

 and days of valuable time. In many other 

 instances Mr. Carlin spent several days in 

 order to get just such pictures as he 

 wanted, of a single small animal or bird. 

 There is a rare treat in store for the read- 

 ers of Recreation, during the coming 

 year. 



THE LEAGUE IS A CERTAINTY. 



As will be seen by correspondence pub- 

 lished on pages 465, 6, 7, 8, of this issue of 

 Recreation, Mr. Lydecker's suggestion 

 for a League of American Sportsmen has 

 met with general and hearty approval. 

 There has long been urgent need for such 

 an organization as is now proposed, and 

 several efforts have been made in this direc- 

 tion. None of these has, however, been 

 as successful as it should have been. This 

 is mainly due to the fact that sportsmen in- 

 general have not heretofore been ready for 

 them; but the time is now ripe for action. 

 The game hogs and the fish hogs have done 

 their dirty work so effectually, and have 

 flaunted it in the faces of sportsmen so 

 persistently, that every decent man in the 

 country is now ready to call a halt on them. 



Many good men have heretofore rested 

 secure in the hope that the game and fish 

 would outlast the work of the butchers; 

 but all such have been awakened, within 

 the last year or 2, to the fact that this war- 

 fare cannot be longer endured, and that the 

 fish and game will be practically extinct, 

 everywhere, within a few years, unless dras- 

 tic measures are taken, at once, to protect 

 them. It is now time for all decent sports- 

 men to combine and to work, day and 

 night, for the protection of fish and game 

 and for the extinction of the hogs. 



A League of American Sportsmen is a 

 foregone conclusion. A call will be pub- 

 lished in January Recreation, for a con- 

 vention to meet in this city, to organize this 

 movement; to adopt a constitution and by- 

 laws; to elect officers and to plan a cam- 

 paign, not only for '98, but for all time to 

 come. Due notice will be given of the ex- 

 act time and place of the meeting; and it is 

 earnestly hoped that every friend of game 

 protection, who can possibly reach New 

 York at that time, will be present. 



In January Recreation Mr. W. F. J. 

 McCormick tells a most delightful story of 

 canoeing- and ouananiche fishing, on the 

 upper Mastassini river, in Canada; Profess- 



