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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Page. 



Wild Turkey Shooting by Moonlight Frontispiece. 



Alaska. ( Illustrated.) Gen. John Gibbon, U. S. A. 1 



How the Trout Came to California. (Illustrated.) Dr. David Starr Jordan. 5 



Prest. Stanford University; Author of "Science Sketches," "Manual of the Vertebrate 

 Animals," " Synopsis of Fishes of North America," etc. 



Ethelinda. Poem Stanley Waterloo. i 2 



Author of " An Odd Situation," " A Man and a Woman," etc. 



A Winter with the Cheyennes. (Illustrated.) Capt. H. H. Bellas, U. S. A. 14 



Elk Hunting in the Shoshones. (Illustrated.) W. A. Valentine, M. D. T7 



Surgeon 7th Regiment, N. Y. N. G. 



A Race for Life Capt. Henry Romeyn, U. S. A. 20 



Wild Turkey Shooting by Moonlight. (Illustrated.).. Capt. C. J. Crane, U. S. A. 22 



Summer. — An Aquarium Story. (Illustrated.) Mark Samuel. 24 



Author of " The Aquarium Guide." 



Hunting With a Camera. ( Illustrated. ) 



Editorial 33 



Fish and Fishing 36 



Game Notes 37 



29 



Bicycling 38 



Publishers' Department 39 



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