REC REATION 



Copyright, December, 1901, by G. O. Shields 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



$1.00 A Year. 



10 Cents a Copy. 



G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



23 West 24TH Street, 



New York 



A Mix-up With a Lynx. Illustrated T. A. Ryer 



A Lynx Hunt in Florida Dr. W. A. Reeve 



The Bob Cat's Banquet. Illustrated W. L. Underwood 



Tho Canada Lynx • A.T.Bickford 



Does the Lynx Destroy Deer? L. D.Gilmore 



A Day on the Delaware. Illustrated Zane Gret 



A Bear and a Pistol. Illustrated A. M. Powell 



An Idle Fanoy. Poem Candice Bramble 



Woodchucks. Illustrated. Ernest C. Adams 



A Racket in the Rockies A. L. Vermilya 



Down the Moon River Illustrated L.S.Wilson 



In Hell Creek Badlands. Illustrated William T. Hornaday 



The Siminol Pirates Chas. B. Wemple 



The Grunt of the Game Hog-. Poem. Illustrated ... William J. Lampton 



Hunting from the Goff Camps • - Warfield Ryley 



A Minnesota Muskalonge O. L. Thomas 



He Stacked the Cards on Them Dr. W. A. Mann 



From the Game Fields 365 



Fish and Fishing 373 



Guns and Ammunition 377 



Natural History 383 



The League of American Sportsmen 387 



Forestry 392 



Pure and Impure Foods 395 



Publisher's Notes 398 



Editor's Corner 400 



Amateur Photography 403 



Entered as Second-Class Matter at New York Post-Office, Oct. 17, 1894. 



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