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ffeari on right side engorged with venous Wood ; bo lungs. No 

 ractnred, skin not penetrated. Exhaustion of |heart direct cause 



SAWBONES. 



PTJie best thiDg to be done would be to remove the buck. 

 Perhaps it would be wise to get rid of him entirely. When 

 bucks grow old, they frequently become aggressive, and they 

 require watching to prevent their doing serious mischief. The 

 reason for the trouble was that the range the deer had 

 o restricted. Deer seem to form family parties, and do 

 not brook intrusion from others of their kind.— Ed.] 



Notes.— The red-headed woodpecker, Mdan-wpes erylliro- 

 ecp/iiilus has been found in unusual numbers in Connecticut 

 this bill. A good many have been seen about New Haven, 

 ami three specimens, all young birds, have been taken at Port- 

 laud. The terrible easterly gale which caused so much 

 d&fliage along our coast about Nov. 25 brought a rare bird to 

 our shores. A specimen of the little auk, or dovkie (Megu- 

 i, was secured in New Haven harbor the day after the 

 storm by Mr. A. II. Thompson, of South Haven. It was 

 very much emaciated, and was apparently unable to fly, since 

 its captor was able to approach it in a canoe, and, striking it 

 i oar, secured it. Its stomach was quite empty, and it 

 i lently a lost bird. Mr. Thompson presented it to the 

 Feabody Museum of Yale College. 



JJOENED Doe Antelopes — Ferrisburgh, Vt., JVov. 20. — In 

 one of your late issues I noticed an inquiry regarding horned 

 antelope, does with editorial comments thereon. Bemembcring 

 an incident once happening me in California, I send it : 



Hiding in the San Joaquim Valley in the early spring of 

 Idenly started a horned doe from the nearly dry 

 bed of an arroyo. Upon recovering from her first fright, she 

 charged to within ten feet of myJiorse, and then be^an run- 

 (jSjfe around me in short circles, stopping now and' then to 

 ,i . 1 1 I toss her head, etc. , showing in every movement tha t 

 her young one was hidden near by. I w T as in a hurry, and 

 could not stop to look it up, so, after watching it a few min- 

 utes, 1 rode on. She was large, as are all horned females, 

 ami in fair order. Of course, she may not have had young, 

 I cannot be positive of that ; but I never knew a deer to act 

 in this way unless it had a fawn secreted near. Did you ? 



Verd Mont. 



[Never ; but more decisive evidence would be necessary to 

 shake our belief that horned doe autelopes are barren.— Ed.] 



An Albino Quail. — The Buck's County Gazette records 

 the Snooting of a" pure white quail a few days ago at Newton, 

 N. J., by Lewis M. Morford : " The bird is of full size and of 

 full plumage, which is as white as the driven snow. There 

 was anothcir bird equally white in the same bevy, but it 

 escaped. The only mounted specimen of an albino quail 

 in thi u vicinity, except the above, is the one which ornaments 

 the office of Chief Justice Beasley at Trenton." 



A New Fish. — The Cape Ann Advertiser records, the dis- 

 covery of a fish hitherto unknown to science : 

 The schooner Wachuset, recently arrived from the Banks, 



lit in a curious fish, a little over four feet long and hav- 

 ing around tapering body and large head, of a species un- 

 known to our fishermen, but having somewhat of the appear- 

 ance of a shark. It was caught on a trawl and preserved as a 



i y. (in arriving at port, the fish attracted the attention 

 ot Capt. Robert H. Hurlburt, who acted as pilot on board the 

 steamer Speedwell, employed in fishery investigations in our 

 waters lait summer, and he at once secured the prize and for- 

 warded it to Prof. Spencer P. Baird, of the Smithsonian 

 Institute at Washington. In acknowledging the courtesy of 

 Capt. Hurlburt, Prof. Baird points out bow our fishermen can 

 render invaluable aid to the government in its fishery investi- 

 gations, mid urges that all curious fish and marine specimens 

 i t'uliy preserved and forwarded to Washington. We 



hat this matter will receive attention, and that our fish- 

 ermen will spare no effort to advance scientific inquiry in this 

 direction. We quote from Prof. Baird's letter to Capt. Hurl- 

 burt, as follows : 



"If you could have the word passed to parties going to 

 Georges and elsewhere fishing during the winter to bring back 



I lern everything curious, we should doubtless get some 

 prizes. Ask them to wrap the fishes up in paper or rag, and 

 put them on ice so as to keep them safely. In shipping, please 

 mix ice about the size of your fist, or less, with sawdust, which 

 will keep unmelted for several days. It is very desirable, too, 

 thai the fish be wrapped in something to prevent its rubbing 



I the ice, or being banged about when the ice melts. 

 Everything in the way of corals, sea plants, etc., such as they r 



up on the Banks", will be acceptable. Do you know, or 

 does anybody in Gloucester know where the hagdons breed? 

 Notwithstanding the myriads on the Banks, I have never 

 been able to find out where they nest. Would it be possible 

 to get the fishermen to bring in some hagdons so that you can 

 send them to me this winter? Abundant as they are at sea, 

 little is known of them in museums. Theie are three or four 

 kinds, all of which are desirable. 

 "The fish has just arrived. It is a wonderful prize, a Green- 

 ish never before seen south of Labrador. It is known 

 as the ehimana, and is a kind of cross between a shark and a 

 u. Get more if you can. We shall make a plaster cast 

 and photograph. 



-•Nov. 30.— Since writing you about the curious fish, or 

 oatmojra, I have ascertained that it is still more interesting 

 ihan I supposed, in being an entirely new species, not before 



bed. I hope, therefore, you will continue your efforts 



behalf, so as to get some more specimens of rare, if not 



of new species. A number of additional specimens of this 



same animal would be. desirable, it was a female, and the 



' males are very different in shape and appearance." 



Wanted, a Bvll Moose, — A gentleman has a female 

 moose, and is very desirous of propagating the breed. There 

 must b 3 among our numerous correspondents and friends in 

 the North some one having a bull moose. With the possessor 

 of such an animal we should be glad to enter into corres- 

 pondence. 



^qtmql. 



To Correspondents.— Those desiring us to prescribe for their dogs 

 n i:l please take note of and describe the following points in eaeli ani- 

 mal: 



1. Age. 2. Food and medicine given. 3. Appearance of the eye; 

 of the eoat, ; of the tongue and lips. 4. Any changes in the appearance 

 of the body, as bloating, drawing In of the flanks, etc. 5. Breathing, 

 the nnmber of respirations per minute, and whether labored or not. 

 6. Condition of the bowels and secretions ot the kidneys, color, etc, 7. 

 Appetite ; regular, variable, etc. 8. Temperature of the body as indi- 

 cated by the bulb of the thermometer when placed between the body 

 and the foreleg. 9. Give position of kennel and surroundings, outlook, 

 contiguity to other buildings, and the uses of the latter. Also give any 

 peculiarities of temperament, movements, etc., that may be noticed ; 

 signs of suffering, etc. 



FOX HUNTING. 



Editor Fobkst and Stream : 



It would seem from what I read in the New York papers, 

 and from my correspondence, that a subscription pack for 

 huntiDg the fox has, after many an effort on the part of a few 

 game young Gothamites, at last become au fait accompli— an 

 accomplished fact, as the French would say — and am rejoiced 

 that my predictions of possible failure, expressed in your 

 columns some time since, have proved groundless. 



I feared that your traveled young Anglo- maniacs, dazzled 

 by the really magnificent hunting equipages of Leicester, 

 would aim too high, and overshoot the mark by attempting 

 the introduction of the fashionable high strung hounds of the 

 most famous hunting shires of England, but a friend, a "top- 

 sawyer" and "first flight" man of your Queen's County hunt, 

 Mr. A. P. B., writes me as follows : "So far we have been 

 successful, and I think we have established the pack so that 

 it will last. I don't altogether agree with you about the 

 American hounds answering our purpose better than an Eng- 

 lish pack, for the following reasons : The American hounds 

 that I have seen or heard of are all taught to race among them- 

 selves, whereas an English pack is taught to keep together, or 

 pack, and can be more easily controlled by the huntsman. 

 Our hounds are more harriers than foxhounds, being only 

 about eighteen inches at the shoulder. 



My friend's criticism of American hounds is in the main 

 just, the racing among themselves of American hounds natu- 

 rally follows from the manner in which most American packs 

 are constituted. In Maryland, Virginia and Mississippi, the 

 States to which my hunting experiences are confined, gene- 

 rally—not always— the hounds composing a pack belong 

 to different parties living in the same neighborhood within 

 horn blow of each other, and each man comes to the meet 

 followed by his Own dogs. As may be supposed, the rivalry 

 between these parties to own the fastest dog is very great, and 

 thus the most desirable qualities in a hound are sacrificed to 

 mere speed; but where the whole pack has but one master, as 

 is the case w T ith those of T. G. T., of Gaston; Pious Jeems, 

 Gen. Starke, Broaclnax, and others that I might mentioD, a 

 dog may r be rejected for too much speed, as he would be for 

 the lack of it. ' 



Forty yeai-s ago, when I hunted my own pack in the Mary- 

 land settlement, near Church Hill, m Mississippi, I gave away 

 several hounds for being incorrigibly fast. 1 use the word in- 

 corrigibly, because I vainly made every effort to correct the 

 defect by putting drags upon them in the shape of a trailing 

 rope fastened to a collar, and in one instance by a ligature on 

 the hind leg, just above the hock. These dogs, though excel- 

 lent in their way, destroyed the harmony both of the action 

 and music of my pack. 



But in Mississippi speed was not so great a desideratum, 

 for we hunted the gray fox, a varmint wdiich for all the game 

 qualities will compare with the red fox, as would a "bob- 

 tailed yellow cur," with George Coburn's "Dash," or Bryson's 

 "Gladstone." But in my judgment the gray, with his short 

 doubles, affords more sport than the indomitable and untiring 

 red, and I hold it to have been a great mistake to have im- 

 ported the latter from beyond the "seas. 



After thirty years' experience in riding to hounds after both 

 red and gray foxes, I must say that the most per.ect sport I 

 ever enjoyed was when after a gray fox with those Missis- 

 sippi hounds, which ran so closely packed that they might— 

 to use a hunting phrase — have been covered with a blanket. 

 I have had capital sport, too, with red foxes. I have ridden 

 forth at the first glimmering of the dawn, and witnessed with 

 a delight, which no other field sport can give, the trailing ol 

 an old red through all the intricacies of his midnight wander- 

 ings, until a grand burst of thunderous music from the eager 

 pack would announce that he was off. Mounted on a gallant 

 horse, I have followed the swiftly flying pack in a delicious 

 delirium of excitement, such as I fancy" a Hampton, a Fitz 

 Lee, a Jackson, or a Custer might have felt, as with lifted 

 sabre he lead a victorious cavalry charge. I have enjoyed the 

 triumph of being first in at the death, and winning the white- 

 tipped brush, that trophy so prized by every true sportsman ; 

 but then would come the reaction. Weary and hungry, I 

 would find myself twenty miles from home, on a horse so 

 tired he could scarcely keep his legs. 



The gray fox, rarely runs outside of a circle of five or six 

 miles, taking his starting-point, and the limit of his endurance 

 is rarely over two hours, hence there is no such reaction after 

 the excitement of hunting him, and I for one deplore the 

 gradual extinction of our native fox, and would, if I could, 



estore him to the dominion which is being slowly but surely 

 usurped by the red foreigner. In an early volume, of the old 

 "Turf Register and Sporting Magazine" may be found the 

 precise date at which the first red foxes were imported from 

 England to America. They were turned loose on the eastern 

 shore of that State by a famous sporting 'squire, whose name 

 I do not remember. They r were confined te the eastern shore 

 for several years, until during an unusually hard winter the 

 Bay was frozen down to the capes, when the reds crossed over 

 to the western shore, where they have almost superseded the 

 native grays. Bed foxes were also imported into Virginia, 

 and the date of their introduction on Long Island is a matter 

 of record. While attending the field trials at Billcinead, near 

 Nashville, I heard an enthusiastic fox hunter regretting that 

 they had at a comparatively recent date been also brought to 

 that neighborhood, and that they were rapidly driving out the 

 grays. And this is the case wherever the red fox gets a foot- 



hold—the native reynard is driven away or destroyed as the" 

 native red man is by his white brother. 



You have recently received at your office a great curiosity, 

 a Lmus naturm, in the shape of a fox pad, which I hope you 

 will hang up among your most valued trophies. A recent letter 

 from that fine old Southern gentleman all of the olden time, 

 T. G. S., of Gaston, who sent you the pad, alludes to it as 

 follows : "I send you the right bind foot of an old red fox 

 which Broadnax and myself caught this morning, after one 

 of the most vigorous and electrifying runs ever witnessed in 

 an hour and a half. I will in a few days write you a full 

 description of the chases we had after him this week. This 

 fox has been in this vicinity since 1862, and has afforded us 

 sport from that date to the present, and has been the instru- 

 ment of our testing the qualities of all brag hounds that com- 

 peted with my pack and Broad n ax's. We rarely ran him but 

 on such trials. His track was well known to every person in 

 this neighborhood who ever notice tracks. The right hind 

 foot was much smaller than the other, strikingly so. I send 

 it to you. It is really a curiosity in mark, and is the first 

 white foot I have ever seen on a red fox. Both hind feet were 

 of the same color." 



Let me conclude my rambling letter with congratulations 

 on the accession to your columns of so charming a writer on 

 hunting as T. G. T., of Gaston, for some of the admirers of 

 the Forest and Stream complained to me when I was in 

 Nashville that you did not give sufficient space to that noblest 

 branch of field sports— fox hunting. . F. G. S. 



POINTS IN JUDGING DOGS. 



WE have been requested to reproduce the points in use 

 by judges on bench shows of dogs. As canine exhibi- 

 tions are getting more and more in vogue, veiy possibly the 

 publication of these points will be useful to many of our 

 readers. 



For these points we are indebted to the London Fancier's 

 Gazette, to Stonehenge, Idstone and other leading authorities. 

 We trust to be able to complete the whole series in two publi- 

 cations. Wc may remark that there are in use for special 

 dogs subdivisions in points, as for instance in judging of a 

 mastiff, the bead is divided into— size, 10 ; shape, 10 ; eyes, 

 5 ; ears, 5 ; muzzle, 5, or thirty-five points in all. In some 

 oases the whole head is lumped at thirty-five, the judges dis- 

 criminating between the various fine distinctions. Should 

 any modifications occur in these points— for we are led to be- 

 lieve that some changes are possible — our readers will be sure 

 of having the earliest information imparted to them: 



ENGLISH SETTER. 



Head 25 



Neck 10 



Shoulders 15 



>s 10 



Feet 10 



Loins and Thighs 15 



Coat 10 



Stern 5 



Head. 



Neck.. 



Feet 5 



Stern 5 



BLACK ASD TAN OB OOBDON SETTER. 



IRISH SETTER. 



.. 20 Shoulders 15 



.. 5 Back 10 



Loina 10 



Hind-quarters 15 



Color 15 



Head 20 



Neck 5 



js § 



Feet o 



Coat 10 



Shoulders 15 



Back, loins and hind-quar- 

 ters , 20 



Stern 5 



Color 15 



POINTER . 



Head 25 Feet 10 



Neck 10 Loins 10 



Shoulders 15 Stifles 5 



Legs 10 Stem 15 



CHESAPEAKE BAY DO&. 



Head 15 Loina 10 



Neck 5 Coat 15 



Shoulders 10 Tail 5 



Chest 15 Feet 10 



Size '5 Legs 10 



IRISH WATER SPANIEL. 



Head 25 Loins 10 



Ears 10 Hind-quarters 10 



Feet 5 Coat 15 



Legs 5 Stern .,..10 



Back 10 



FOXHOUND. 



Head 15 B.ck 10 



Neck 5 Loins 10 



Leg* 10 Hind- quarters 15 



Feet... ...15 Stern 5 



Shoulders 15 



Head 15 



Neck 5 



Legs 10 



Feet 10 



Shoulders 15 



HARRIER. 



Back. 



Loins 



Hind-quarteis 



Stern 



Girth or depth of rib. 



Head 15 Back 



Neck 5 Loina 



Legs 10 Hind-quarters.. 



Feet 10 Stern 



Shoulders 20 



UAonsHOND (from Loudon Field). 



Skull • 10 Feet, 



Jaw 10 



Lars, eyes and lips 10 



Length of body 15 



Legs 15 



GREIUOUND 



10 

 10 



15 

 5 

 5 



10 

 10 

 15 



Stern 



Coat 



Color... 



Size, symmetry & quality. 



Head 15 



Neck 10 



Shoulders 15 



Legs 10 



Feet 10 



DEEBHOUND. 



Hind-quarters 



Back 



Loins 



Tail 



Head 15 



Neck 10 



Shoulders 15 



Legu .,..+ .. 10 



Feet 



Loins 



Coat- 



HLud-quarters. 



HLOODHOVXI). 



Head 



Neck 



Bhon!di;rs. 



Le^'B 



J*eet , 



25 

 . 5 

 . 15 



10 

 .. 5 



Back 



Loins 



Hind-quarters 



Stern 



10 

 10 

 15 



10 

 15 

 10 

 5 



