RECREATION 



Copyright, December, 1903, by G. O. Shields 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 



fi.oo a Year. 



10 Cents a Copy. 



G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 

 Editor and Manager. 



23 West 24TH Street, 



New York 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER page. 



Scattered Over the Yard Were Scores of Cranes.- Frontispiece 2 



A Question of Identification Louis T . McKim 3 



The Personnel of the Pack Train. Illustrated G. O. Shields 7 



The Scoters. Illustrated Allan Brooks 13 



A Night in a Pigeon Boost. Illustrated Wm. A. Crawley 17 



Apostrophe to a Trout. Poem J. B. Currie 18 



Camping at Culver's Lake. Illustrated J. H. Uhle 19 



When the Ptarmigan Changes Color. Illustrated A. H. Dunham 23 



A Canadian Trouting Trip B. Kelley 25 



Brer Johnsing's Soliloqy Poem R. Davis 26 



Fishing in Southern Washington - M. F. Jamar, Jr 27 



Among the Selkirks and Canadian Rockies W. C. W. Gieger 29 



Peaks and Passes of Colorado. H. A. Crafts 31 



The Otter's Highway M.S. H. 35 



Hunting for Honey C. Jurgenson 34 



Little Things in Nature Arthur Phelps 35 



Cruelty to Country Neighbors Mrs. H. P. Piper 36 



Nightfall. Poem A.N. Killgore 36 



Seen by the Great Horned Owl Sherman A. Paddock 62 



From the Game Fields 37 



Fish and Fishing 40 



Guns and Ammunition 44 



Natural History 49 



The League of American Sportsmen 52 



Entered as Second-Class Matter at New York Post Office, Oct. 17, 1 



Pure and Impure Foods 54 



Publisher's Notes 56 



Editor's Corner ; 59 



Amateur Photography 64 







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