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INDEX. 



Editorial Correspondence : 



After the Nez Percea -. 403 



Our London Letter 193 



Sporting Clubs and Sportsmen of Russia. . .439 



Virginia Vigilantea 190 



Editor's Return 150 



English Sportsmen in America 213 



English Tribute to American Science 388 



Ernest MorriB 190, 272 



Famine in India 150 



' ' Fauna Borealis " 170 



Field Sports 30 



Fighting with Cogniac 274 



Finland Post and Station System 370 



First Snow 436 



Fishery Question 332 



Florida Colony 256 



Florida Swindling Scheme 295 



Flowers All Around 418 



Fox Hunting on Long Island 235 



Fraul 31 



Fred Beverly iu the West Indiee 294 



Friendless Girls' Home 312 



Game Birds of New England 10 



Game Dinner at Chicago 352 



Gazetteer .12, 170 



Geographical Rediscoveries v 353 



German Sporting Literature 352 



Government Publications 292 



Halford, Sir Henry 150 



Hayes' Policy 295 



High Price of Sporting Goods 253 



How to Clean Choked Water Pipes 253 



How We Suffer, and the Reason Why 292 



Hydrophobia and Rabies 437 



" Illustrated Dramatic and Sporting News ". .312 



Initiating an Important Movement 170 



International Exhibition 51 



International Rifle Match 70 



.Tolly Club 90 



Jim 150 



" Kansas Parmer '' 418 



Letters of Sportsmen 233 



London Circus 295 



Long Range Sheoting 50 



Major Leech 273 



Marsh's Address 402 



Massachusetts Game Law 110 



Matt Morgan's Cartoon in "Spirit of the 



Times " ■ 388 



Merry Christmas 386 



Migratory Quail 11 



More Oranges 418 



Mule TraitB 233 



National Rifle Association . . . , , 1292 



Natural History and Geography 272 



Nature's Wear and Tear 332 



N. B .' 70 



Nebraska Notes 152 



New Year's Greeting 402 



N. Y. Hort. Soc'y 436 



Noble Ambition, A 190 



Old Arms, Antiques, etc., Sale of 292 



Off For Texas 91 



Our Contributors 233 



Our Game 51 



Our Questions and Answers , 312 



Oue Washington Letter : 



Bench Show for Washington 151 



Carp Culture 404 



Chincoteague Maud Ill 



Columbia Rifle Club 52 



Corcoran Art Galleiy 295 



Do Ortolan Have Fits ? 31 



Duck ShootiDg on Potomac 457 



Great Falls Fishing Club 192 



Ortolan Shooting 31, 151 



Protection of Fish ond Game 192 



Reed Bird Diet for Suakss 31 



Ruffed Grouse Shooting 192 



Sport at Virginia Springs 52 



Woodcock Shooting 52 



Our. Western Agent 436 



Personal 332 



PhotoEcope 418 



Bare Books 352, 371 



Registration Book for Sportsmen 293 



Restigouche Salmon 12 



Rifle Department 233 



Rifle Match 130 



Salmon Fishtries of California 233 



Shall the Centennial Rifle Match be Abol- 

 ished? ...272 



Shall the N. R. A. Abdicate? 252 



Sitting Rull .' 110 



Sheep Raising in Texas 436 



Some Grumbling 386 



Sou'h Caroliua Oranges 402 



Southern Shore Long Island 110 



Sporting Clubs in Russia 436 



Stanley's Porta a'.ts 436 



Stealing an Elephant 272 



Stray Notes from the Editor 51, 70, 130 



Summer RusticaiiDg 50 



Sustain Established Sporting Papers 352 



Thanks 402 



Thanksgiving 332 



Thrash, The 80 



To German Riflemen 370 



Tourist's Register 332 



Trouble at Aquarium 274 



Vacation Rambles in Michigan, Wisconsin and 

 Minnesota.. 212, 234, 253, 272, 293, 312, 



333, 370, 386, 419, 437, 478 



Vanity Fair 418 



Watterson, Henry... . .332 



West, W. G., Death of 274 



Whether the Forest and Stream FetcheB 418 



Wholesale Poachers on the Sacramento 252 



Woodruff Expedition 70, 233, 418 



Yellow Fever at Port Royal 213 



Yellow Fexer in Florida 295 



Yet Another Sportsman's Journal 253 



Young Quail 30 



FIJ^H CULTURE. 



Acre of Water 266 



Am. Fish Cult. Ass 429, 419 



Am. Ova in Exchange for Prus Ub 325 



Aquatic Plants for Fish Ponds 246, 284, 



305, 321, 412 



Bass, Rapid Growth of 286 



— California 104, 28C 



Collecting Spawn in Great Lakes 305 



Oorregoni 3 



Fiahiu the Chemung 23 



Pelham Brook 23 



Fish Laws and Politics 324 



Fiehway Construction 3^0 



Golchef, William, Letter from 22y 



Page. 



Green, Seth, Letter from 104 



Illinois -. , 247 



Iowa 226, 361 



Iowa Fish Ass «29 



Kentucky. . . , 23 



McLeod River Trout 247 



McLeod River Hatoheries 206 



Maine, Report for 1877 449 



Massach^etts... t,:i, 143 



Mather, Fred, in England 206 



at the Centennial 449 



Michigan 206 



Michigan Fish Commissioner on his Travels . . 43 



Mink Infesting Trout Ponds 429 



Minnesota 143, 380 



Nevada 104 



New England Fish Culture 206 



New Hampshire 23, 44, 104, 184 



New Jersey 4, 63, 164 



New York 23, 143, 204, 226, 247, 267 



North Caroliua 305 



Pennsylvania 184, 305 



Poachers, Worst Sort of 305 



Priority of Fish Breeding in United States.. . .164 



Salmon, Age for Transporting 26& 



California 63 



Columbia River Hatcheries 184 



Cayuga Lake 345 



at Easton 380 



in the Lakes 226 



Ohio 226 



Penn 3C6, 325, 334 



the Richelieu 143 



the Susquehanna 345 



Virginia 364 



Falmon Trout on Pacific Coast 247 



Sandwich Islands, Fiah from 864 



Mullet 226 



Shad in Lake Ontario 226 



Susquehanna, Dams in the. 184 



Tennessee 03 



Transporting Fry 23 



Trout, Rapid Growth of 184, 286 



U. S. Fish Commissioners in Salem 84 



'Violation of Law in California 184 



Virginia 23 



Virginia Floods . , 345 



What's in an Ouster? 104 



White Bait 266 



Wisconsin 345 



Lake Trout and White Fish 361 



Report for 1877 429 



GAME BAG AND GUN. 



About Guns and Ammunition 216 



Another Fusilade , 455 



Audubon Club 454 



Bear Hunt on Sunflower River 474 



Bewildered Pheasant 114 



Big Hunt 230 



Blue Point Club 400 



Blue Rocks on Coast of Ireland 287 



Bogardus 355, 368 



Feat at GilmoreV 433 



Accepts Carver's Challenge 434 



Sketch of His Life 415 



Brief Reports . 



Arkansas 94, 148, 176. 210, 310, 355 



California 54, 127, 148, 176, 195, 287, 



310, 383, 400, 491 



Canada 30, 94, 127, 198, 216, 230, 250 



Colorado 216, 259, 415 



Connecticut 34, 127, 148, 216, 270, 



287, 330, 383, 414 



Dakota 148 



Florida 94, 127, 230, 250, 355, 368, 



434, 454, 473, 430 



France. . 176 



Georgia 250, 365 



Illinois 73, 148, 195, 216, 250, 383, 431 



Indiana ...76, 94, 114, 148, 176, 216, 310 



Iowa 14, 54, 94, 216, 330. 383, 400 



Kansas 127, 148, 287, 330, 355 



Kentucky 34, 73, 114, 175. 195, 216, 



'230, 250, 491 



Louisiana 148, 176, 216, 287, 400 



Maine 250 



Maryland 73, 195, 250, 310, 454 



Massachusetts 34, 54, 73, 93, 127, 176, 



195, 215, 230, 250, 270, 287, 310, 330, 



- 355, 368, 414, 454, 473 



Michigan 14, 54,74, 176, 195, 216, 230, 



287, 355, 434, 454, 473, 491 



Minnesota 54, 74, 194, 216, 250, 287 



Mississippi 114, 195. 230, 270, 368, 



383, 400, 414, 473 



Missouri 34, 94, 454 



Montana 400 



Nebraska 270 



Nevada 14, 54, 127 



New Brunswick 175, 215, 315, 454 



New Jersey 34,93, 143, 175, 230, 250, 



2S7, 310. 331, 355. 368, 491 

 New York,... 34. 54, 73, 127, 14S, 175, 216, 

 239, 250, 270, 287, 310, 363, 383, 434, 473 



North Carolina .195. 216, 250, 310 



Ohio 54, 127, 195, 230, 250, 270, 



330, 414, 451, 491 



Oregon 114, 310 



Pennsvlvania 34, 54, 73, 93, 127, 148, 



175, 195, 216, 230, 250, 270, 287, 310, 

 330, 355, 368, 383, 409, 414, 454, 491 



Rhode Island 270, 287, 310, 355, 383, 491 



South Carolina 148,355, 368, 333, 414, 



434. 454, 473 



Tennessee 148, 176, 216, 230, 287, 400, 



473, 491 



Texas 127, 148, 176, 195, 230, 250, 270, 



368, 883, 454, 473 



Vermont 14. 127, 250, 270. 400 



Virginia 14, 114, 175, 195. 216, 250, 



270, 287, 310, 330, 368, 483, 434 



Wa>h n?tou Territory 114 



West Virginia 310 



Wisconsin.... 34, 94, 127, 195, 230. 250, 355, 



868, 415, 454 



BuffaloGun Club 473 



California Quail Shooting 384 



Camp's Automatic Cartridge Loader 250 



Canvas-Back Sporting Cub 400 



Carver's Challenge. 415 



Challenge Extraordinary 455 



Charges for Guns 416 



Chilled Shot : 73 



Choke-Bore, The First 310 



Christmas Turkeys 400 



Conical Chambers 289 



Coo verting Muzzle-Loaders 175, 230 



Cuvier Club 414, 454 



Czar's Bear Preserves 176 



Decoying Ducks 383 



Page. 



Disastrous Buffalo Hunt 230 



Dougall Breecb-Loader 416 



Ducking on St. Clair Flats. . . .128, 14s, 350, 356 



Eclipse Loader 216 



Elk on the Rampage 216 



Equity to Recapper 147 



Experiments with ShotGuns 416 



Ferrisburg Club 454 



Fine Turkey 455 



Fire Hunting Deer in Fla 289 



First Quail in Va. . . : 270 



First Snipe 94 



Fond of the Woods 454 



Fiom McKenzie River 216 



From Sitting Bull's Stamping Ground 250 



From the Tar Heel State 175 



Fun at HomoBassa 384 



Fur Market 416 



Gaillard Sport. Club • 271 



Glass Ball Shooting 288 



Going to Florid* 195 



Good Many Snipe 454 



Great Shooting Country 386 



Gun Accidents 473 



Gun Trials '. 415 



He Fired a Gun ...216 



Holberton's Beraoval 492 



How to Burst a Gun , 73 



How to Clean Gun Barrels 288 



Hunting in Palace Cars 230 



Impervious Shells 230 



Iowa 473 



Jack and Fishing Lamp 473 



Kleiman's Gun 400 



Krider, Card 416 



Ladies in Camp 492 



Lake Koshkonong 147 



Large and Small Bores 34 



Large Buck 271 



Letter from Philadelphia 434 



Ned Buntline 434 



Loon 8hooting 400 



Market Shooting in Mass 473 



Minnesota Shooting Season 401 



Misfortune, A 288 



Missouri Pigeon Roost 289 



Mixing Dittmar and Black Powder 474 



Moose in Adirondacks 115 



Music of the Bounds 330 



Muzzle-Loader Changed to Breech Loaders. .401 



My First Swan 28S 



Ned Buntline on His Travels 330 



New Year's Ducks 454 



Notes from Cal 455 



Not Much of a Slaughter After All 356 



Ohio Farmers and Sportsmen 383 



Old Breech-Loader 400 



Old Guns 148 



Old P. stol 287 



One Week's Hunt 311 



Our Register 367 



Paine's Glass Balls 383 



Partridge Story 114 



Parts of a Gun 73 



Pin-Fire Guns 356 



Pliny as a Hunter 73 



Preservation of Game , .170 



Puzzle for Soortsmen 855 



Answers 384, 368, 415 



Queen's County Hunt 195 



Quicker Guu 434 



Quite Convenient 310 



Recapper's Theories 34 



Becapper to Equity 175 



Recoil 34, 2S8, 455 



Record Your Game 210 



Revival of Hawking in England 114 



Rifle at Running Deer 416 



Rust in Guns 310 



Schuyler, Hartley &. Graham 400 



Scott's Gun 454 



Sharp Game Bird , 356 



Shell Bursting 400 



Shells, To Clean 415 



Shooting Around Montauk 288 



Shooting from the Hip 73 



Shooting Suits 34 



Shot Display ". 310 



Shots at Bunning Deer 383 



Small Bore vs. Large Bore 54 



Soft and Chilled Shot Trials 492 



South Brooklyn Club 454 



Sport in Clinton Co., Pa 356 



Iowa ....288 



Mexico 288 



Sporting Farmer 400 



Strange Accident 195 



Substitute for Choke Boring 54, 216 



Table of Charges Confirmed 73 



Three Black Crows Out-General tho American 



Ea«le 356 



Tight Shell Picture 400 



Tit for Tat 216, 2S7 



To Keep Game in Warm Weather 14 



To Take Lead from a Gun Barrel 73 



Trouble for Sportsmen 473 



Vancouver's Island 148 



Wad Board 148 



Western Diana 114 



West Indies Game 401 



Who is R. Wakefield ? 368 



W T iid Goose Pest 311 



Wild Pigeon's Roost 454 



AVild Rice 148 



Pigeon Matches: 



Canada 



Carver's Feat 



Championship Medal 



Bogardus at Cincinnati 



Challenge to the World . . ... 



Rules for Glass Ball Shooting 



vs. Paine 



vs. Talbot 



California. .. . • • • • • • • • 



Connecticut °*. 1*»» 



G BhnSs ,1R Ti95;- 2 i7-;3u;38i; 3^9V4i7; 



Indiana • **i 



K }°™ .■j.;'.'.-'.v.'.v.:;::.428V m 



Kentucky'''.'.'. .... 54, 74. 148, VA, 



Long island.. 14, 54, 74, 114, 176, 217, 251. 



271 2R9, 356. 384, 401, 416, 434, 455, 474, 



Maine u , ™> 



ffiSSS^:;:™::^«;a'2» 



Michigan ......19o, 384, 417, 



Narrangansett Gun Club Cup 



New York.. 114, 128, 176. 217, 356, 369, 417, 



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Ohio 14, 74, 148, 455, 475 



Pennsylvania.. .14, 35, 94, 128, 217, 401, 492 



Bhode Island 35, 54, 74, 114 



Tennessee Tournament 251, 311 



Texas.. 94, 114, 143, 193, 215, 417, 455 



GAME PROTECTION. 



Arithmetic fcr Game Clubs 151 



Acclimatization Society .458 



G. P. American Treepasdng in Canada .353 



Arkansas 479 



California ' ...... .190 



FiBh Question !'..!!!!" .419 



Quailin Illinois 274 



Canada 314 495 



Connecticut 150, 170, 190, 254, 314, 478 



England, Shipment of Game to 371 



£i? ri( ?a 81, 190 



IlhnoiB in 



Indiana '.....'...'. 31 



G. P. Infringement, of the Laws East "arid 



West , 296 



Killing Deer for Their Skins .458 



In Unsportsmanlike Manner !296 



Massachusetts 10, 51, 71, 111, 254, 314 3 4 



Michigan 31) 834i 478 



Nat. Sport. Association 458 



National Acclimatization 402 



Nebraska. .pV '495 



New Hampslme 213 



New Jersey 71, 91, 151, 171, 313, "814, 



„ „ , 334, 439. 478 



New York 150, 171, 233, 274, 296, 314, 



xt «. ^ ,- 361 . 419 . 4 79 



North Carolina 371 



Nova Scotia 10 ' ill '334 



Ohio,. 7i 171 



Pennsylvania 33, 91, 213, 458, 479, 495 



Qua-1 Preserva'ion 495 



Supervisors' Authority .... 171 



Texas. '.".i'o" 2i.8,'402 



Timely Hints. 371 



Trespass Notice ' 402 



Virginia Ill, 151, 190, 254, 296,' 314' 334 



When are Quail Properly in Season. . . 439 



Who Killed tho Bird ? " 10 



KENNEL. 



Age 147 



Alexandra Bengh Show 421 



Algerian Greyhounds inn 



Anatomy of Dog .'.".'.'.".'. 7 



Apparent Want of Nose ' 168 



Aehcroft Kennel Club 432 



Baltimore Dog Show .399 



Bench Show Classification !'.329 



Bii mingham Dog Show .[421 



Book for Breeders ]gg 



Boston Dog Show 88, 108, 433 



Breeding 147 



Breton Hounds "\' t 45 



Brief KeDnel Notes.... 8, 26, 47, 89," 127, 148 

 108, 188, 209. 229, 263, 297. 309. 351, 3ti8' 



332, 399, 421, 432, 453, 472, 491 



Canine Insanity 47 



P'uck ../.!!.. ^432 



Canines Meek in Spirit 147 



Canine Therapeutics 46, 107, 250 



Care of Dogs ' . 127 



Caring for a Good Dog . . . . . .868 



Cat Bite 351 



Cat Show at Philadelphia 351 



Charleston Bench Show !!"382 



Claiming of Names. ! . ! .146 



Classification of Bench Shows 399 



Cocker Spaniels 45 



Colors of Setters and Pointers !490 



Columbus Kennel Club Pointer 60 



Cost of Raising and Breaking Dogs 350 



Coat of Transporting Dogs 361 



Crooked Legs 168 



Dandie Dinmonts ]s82 



Dachshunde, not Dachshunds . ."491 



Detroit Bench Show 399, 421 



Distemper Cure 330 



Dog and Fox Cross .382 



Dog Catcher Comes to Grief 8 



Dog Drowning a Cat 229 



Dog Fighters 209 



Dog Poisoning 297 



Dog Portraits 209 



Dog Tax of Paris 18S 



Dog vs. Porcupine 297 



Tearing CiotheB 482 



Dog's Affection .• 47 



Considerate Regard 850 



Beasoning Facultiee 350 



Strategem 107 



Dogs as Draft Power 47 



as Friends 187 



Eating Eggs 168, 188 



for Close Covert 26 



for Turkey, Grouse and Squirrel Shoot- 

 ing 297 



that Eat Fish Only 350 



to Point Deer 472 



Duke's Pedigree 368 



Egg Suckers 229 



Echo at Philadelphia Bench Show 3G7 



Eight Hundred Quail 399 



English Hunting Field 297 



Fatal Enthusiasm 1SS 



Feeding Puppies 146 



Field Training 329 



Finishing School for Dogs 297 



Fox, A Plucky 382 



Fox Bite, Death from 350 



F^x Hounds 46 



v.. Qoutifig 381 



en Regie 453 



in Psria 431 



in Vix; - lia 472 



...269 



Uj8 



Gun Shy " 297 



Half Mourmi <,: 458 



Hartford Dog S&0 .1S7 



Hints on Dog BreaL. 



How Ladies Should Dreee in tin 



Hydrophobia 47, 



II ipochondriao Canine 



Intelligent Dog 



Kennel Register 



London, Ont., Bench Show. 



Lump on Shoulder 



Lurcher, The 30l> 



Lynchburg Dog Show 



Maine Dog Law 



Management of Doga 12 



Mass. Kennel Club 382, 421 



