Fletcher, Paulding, Mich. 
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THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 3g1 
EDITOR’S CORNER. 
ZOO SPECIMENS ARE COMING IN. 
My appeal to the readers of RECREATION 
for birds and mammals for the New York 
Zoological Park is meeting with liberal re- 
spunses. Here is a list of specimens already 
received: 
July 11—Flying Squirrel. One specimen, presented 
by J. E. Bosworth, Gouverneur, N, Y. 
May 27—Great Horned Owl. One specimen, pre- 
sented by V. I. Cook, Belfast, N. Y. 
July 13—Red-tailed Hawk. 2 specimens, presented 
by Robert Smith, Greene, N. Y. 
July 29g—Screech Owl. One specimen, presented by 
A. W. Perrior, Syracuse, N.Y. 
Aug. 23—Red-tailed Hawk. One specimen, presented 
by F. H. Williams, Greene, N. Y. : 
Aug. 25—Halizetus. Bald Eagle. 2 specimens. 
Dewey and Columbia. Hatched June 13, 1899, at 
Sucker Lake, Mich., presented by A. B. Pain and L. C. 
Sept. 2—Great Horned Owl. One specimen, pre- 
sented by Percy Selous, Creenville, Mich. 
Sept. 6—Little Blue Horn. One specimen, presented 
by Henry L. Allen, Princ? Bay, Richmond Co., N. Y. 
Sept. 15—Garter Snake ; Water Snake ; Box Tortoise ; 
Spotted Salamauder. One specimen each, presented 
by Percy Selous, Greenville, Mich. 
Sept. r13—Missouri Prairie Dog. 26 specimens, pre- 
sented by Howard Eaton, Medora, N. D. 
Sept. 282—Wild Cat. One specimen, presented by 
Charles Payne, Wichita, Kans. 
A number of other specimens have been 
offered and are to be shipped in as fast as the 
cages are ready to receive them. 
This work is progressing rapidly and Mr. 
Hornaday will soon beready for anything and 
everything that comes. My readers are again 
urged to report to me, or to Mr. Hornaday at 
the park, any specimens they may have in 
hand that they are willing to donate to this 
great institution. 
Remember that any specimen you may send 
will be credited to you first, and then to the 
RECREATION group. In years to come it will 
be an honor to any man or woman to have 
donated a specimen tothe New York Zoologi- 
cal Park inits early days. The names of all 
donors will be permanently registered in the 
records of the park and placed on the cages 
containing these specimens. All animals re- 
ceived at the park will be acknowledged by 
mail, and through RECREATION. We want 
everything in the way of birds, mammals and 
reptiles. If you have anything in either class 
that you are willing to give, let me hear from 
you at once. 

Mrs. Julius Reynal, of New York, has a 
cottage at Bar Harbor, Me. She enter- 
tains lavishly and without due regard to 
law. During last summer she made a 
practice of buying and serving to her 
guests ruffed grouse in the close season. 
Game Warden New heard of this, called 
on Mrs. Reynal to investigate the case 
and was told by the housekeeper that Mrs. 
Reynal had paid as high as $5 apiece for 
some of the grouse she had served. A 
complaint was entered against her and 
the case was settled by the payment of a 
fine of $150 and costs. 
Mrs. Reynal then packed her trunks 
and left Bar Harbor, asserting she would 
never return. So much the better. It is 
hoped she may hereafter spend her sum- 
mers at some place where she can get 
plenty of poultry, fresh beef, mutton, etc., 
to feed her friends on. The: state: .of 
Maine can make more money out of its 
game in a legitimate way than it can 
through summer visitors who have no re- 
gard for the game laws. 

V. F. Davis, Brigham City, Utah, sends 
out a circular in which he invites sports- 
men to visit his ranch and shoot ducks 
with him. He calls his place the Davis 
Duck Camp and says he charges $2 a day 
for board. Then he adds: “For the bene- 
fit of those who question me as to the 
flight of ducks, I here print my score of 
last season. I shot 51 days, killing 4,220, 
averaging 82 birds and a fraction a day.” 
Then follows an itemized record of his 
slaughter, from October Ist to November 
22d. The smallest number of birds killed 
in one day was 10 and the largest number 
155. 
Here is one of the most disgraceful and 
disgusting pieces of hoggishness I have 
ever yet had to record. It is a great pity 
that all the States could not have laws that 
would send such brutes as Davis to prison 
1OG 5) tO. 0 pyearss lt 1s morally certain 
that no decent sportsman would ever pa- 
_tronize such a man as this, even for a day. 

I have often been asked why I do not 
conduct a kennel department in ReEc- 
REATION. There are several reasons. One 
is that I have not room for it without 
cutting down some of the other depart- 
ments. Another and more important rea- 
son is that dog talk always includes a lot 
of technical expressions that are distaste- 
ful to women and children. RECREATION 
is preéminently a family magazine. It 
is read by many thousands of women and 
girls and if its pages were marred by dog 
talk, such as would be required in a reg- © 
ular kennel department, then the magazine 
would be debarred from the family circle. 
It is my aim to keep RECREATION clean, 
and not to print a word in it that any 
woman or any child may not read without 
blushing. I am always ready to print gen- 
eral articles on the dog, but not technical 
matter. 

Already many thousands of people are 
wondering what they are going to get 
for Christmas presents. Other thousands 
are wondering what they are going to 
give their friends. If you wish to make 
a present to a man or a boy who is inter- 
ested in shooting, fishing, amateur pho- 
tography, or nature study, then give him a 
