472 | RECREATION. 
County. Name of Warden. Address. 
Harvey C. Went, 11 Fae Bridge- 
port, Ct. 
Hartford, Abbott C. Collins, 783 Main _ Street, 
Hartford, Ct. 
(County Warden, care Conn. Mutual Life Ins. Co. 
Litchfield, Dr. H.L. Ross, P.O. Box 100, Ca- 
naan, Ct. 
New Haven, Wilbur E. Beach, 318 Chapel Street, 
New Haven, Ct. 
LOCAL WARDENS IN NEW JERSEY. 
Morris, D. W. Clark, Newfoundland. 
Somerset, G. E. Morris, Somerville. 
Morris, Francis E. Cook, Butler. 
Passaic, L. M. Lefevre, Pompton Plains. 
Sussex, Isaac D Williams, Branchville. 
' Morris, Joseph Peliet, Pompton Plains. 
Union, A. H. Miller, Cranford. 
C. M. Hawkins, 
teats Young, 
Reuben Warner, 
Roselle. 
Warren, } Phillipsburg. 
LOCAL WARDENS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 
Venango, G. D. Benedict, Pleasantville. 
Northumberland, W. A. Reppard, Shamokin. 
Potter, Byron Bassett, Coudersport. 
Crawford, Jasper Tillotson, ‘Tillotson. 
LOCAL WARDENS IN MICHIGAN. 
Kalkaska, W. H. Dunham, Kalkaska. 
Kalamazoo, C. E. Miller, Augusta. 
LOCAL WARDENS IN WYOMING. 
Fremont, Neleon varnall, Dubois. 
: . N. Leak, 
Uinta, We laSimpson: } Jackson. 
Carbon, Kirk Dyer, Medicine Bow. 

DISCOUNTS TO LEAGUE MEMBERS. 
The following firms have agreed to give 
members of the L. A. S. a discount of from 2 
per cent. to 10 per cent. on all goods bought 
of them. In ordering please give L. A. S. 
number: 
Syracuse Arms Co., Syracuse, N. Y. Guns. 
Davenport Fire Arms Co., Norwich, Conn. Shot 
guns, rifles. 
Gunde Optical Co., Rochester, N. Y. Photographic 
goods. 
Blair Camera Co., Boston, Mass. Photographic goods. 
Folmer & Schwing, 271 Canal Street, New York City. 
Photographic goods. 
The Bostwick Gun and Sporting Goods Co., 1528 
Arapahoe St., Denver, Col. 
W. H. Langdon, Bridgeport, Conn. Sportmen’s 
goods. 
New York Condensed Milk Co., 71 Hudson Street, 
New York City. Condensed products. 
Oneida Community, Kenwood, N. Y. Traps. 
Metz & Schloerb, Oshkosh, Wis. Moccasins, hunting 
shoes, etc. ‘ 
Novelty Cutlery Co., Canton, O. Pocket cutlery, ink 
erasers, etc. ; : 
M.-A. Shipley, 432 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Fishing tackle. ; ” 
Willis Arms & Cycle Co., Kansas City, Mo. Bicycles, 
athletic and sportsmen’s goods, é 
Percy S. Selous, Greenville, Mich, Naturalist and 
taxidermist. 

GAME PROTECTION IN CALIFORNIA. 
I want to add a word of good cheer to 
the reports on bird and game protection 
which are coming in to RECREATION daily. 
At last “law and order” seem to be gain- 
ing ground in California, with reference 
to game protection. A few days since a 
dealer in San Francisco was caught with 
a consignment of wild ducks in his mar- 
ket, the Game and Fish Commission hav- 
ing been given a tip in the matter, and a 
few days later the violator of the law paid 
a fine of $150, which doubtless was also 
accompanied with the proverbial “moral 
effect.” Santa Clara has a wide-awake 
Game and Fish Protective Association, 
which is not composed alone of outsiders, 
who would see our laws enforced, but its 
membership includes almost every sports- 
man in the country. Several fearless at- 
torneys are also members and prosecute 
violations vigorously and_ gratuitously. 
Numerous game wardens have been ap- 
pointed throughout the country and all the 
fishing and hunting districts are known 
to be so thoroughly patrolled that few 
would dare to risk detection, no matter 
how evil might be their designs. Several 
men who shot quails and doves out of 
season have paid $10 a bird for their sport, 
and the prospects of thorough protection 
for both game and fish were never as good 
as at present. 
As to the widespread circulation of 
RECREATION: In June last I-spent a night 
in the mountain town of Placerville, ea 
route to the higher Sierras. Wishing the 
June number of REcRzATION, I went to a 
small news-stand, with some misgivings, 
but the proprietor showed no surprise at 
my request and handed me the magazine 
in a manner which told it was one of his 
regular periodicals. 
I see frequent references to the destruc- 
tion of bluejays, the testimony being both 
pro and con. Personally I have not made 
a study of the subject, but for sentimental 
reasons, if no other, I favor giving the 
bluejay the liberty he has always enjoyed. 
That he may rob birds’ nests and eat young 
birds probably no one will deny, but the 
same destruction might also be properly 
charged up to the shrike or butcherbird. 
Although much is written about the de- 
struction of quails’ eggs by the bluejay, 
Mr. H. W. Carriger, of Sonoma, Cal., who 
spends much time afield, tells me he doubts 
if any one has seen this occurrence, it 
seeming to be more a matter of hearsay, 
which is accepted as truth by common 
consent. The quail possesses just as much 
sagacity in concealing its nest as the blue- 
jay would have to use to discover it. Santa 
Clara county was until recently possessed 
of a game warden who sounded his knowl- 
edge through the daily papers. In one ar- 
ticle he informed us that the birds we had 
always known as blue-fronted (crested) 
jay (Cyanocitta stelleri frontalis), and the 
Californian jay (Aphelocoma californica), 
were both “bluejays,” the crested one 
being the male and the other the fe- 
male. We were likewise told that the blue- 
jay of this section was a predacious fisher, 

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