RECREATION. 



XXIX 



CUBAN GAME. 



The only characteristic animal of Cuba 

 is the hutia, or jutia. It is like a rat in 

 habits and appearance, though much larger. 

 It is 12 to 14 inches long, or with its tail 

 18 to 20 inches. The body around its 

 middle measures about 18 inches. It weighs 

 as much as 11 pounds. This animal is fond 

 of meat and fruits. The hutia is intelligent, 

 lives in the open country or in the wooded 

 hillsides, and enjoys the latter, as it is able 

 to climb trees. Its ratlike appearance does 

 not make it an inviting food for the North- 

 erner, but the poorer native or the negro 

 is as happy with a hutia as a Southern 

 darkie is with a 'possum. There are no 

 rabbits, nor squirrels,. The kildeer, or field 

 plover, is quite common and tame, always 

 running around near the tent or just out of 

 one's path. Quails are much more numer- 

 ous this year than last. Many a covey 

 have I seen in the morning ; the mother 

 playing lame while the young fly or run 

 a few yards and hide. Quail is the favor- 

 ite bird with Cubans, who are otherwise 

 apparently not at all enthusiastic hunters. 

 Wild guinea fowls are plentiful in the un- 

 inhabited hills in some localities, but they 

 are so wild that one never gets within 

 range without great precaution, though their 

 taunting "pot-rack" is continuously heard. 



Along the seacoast there are numberless 

 little sand snipe. They fly in flocks so 

 thick that with 5 good shots a man can 

 qualify as a game hog. The cold snaps of 

 a Northern winter are noticed here by an 

 increase in the size of the flocks of canvas- 

 back and blue wing teal. Parties go out 

 along the coast in a boat, preferably to 

 tramping the swampy shore, to some la- 

 goon which proves a good feeding ground, 

 and employ the same methods that are used 

 in the United States in decoying ducks. 

 The mud-hen is found in every inland lake 

 or pool and the black diver is an all year 

 frequenter of the Cuban coast. 

 Courtland Nixon, 1st Lt., 2d Inf., U. S. A, 

 Sancti Spiritus, Cuba. 



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