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We await with some interest reports from the other side 
in regard to quite a number of the eggs of our pinnated 
grouse sent by Mr. Richard Valentine, of Janesville, Iowa, 
to England, and in due time will inform our readers of the 
results. 
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Children’s Excursions.— George F. Williams, Esq., 
to whose excellent administrative powers, much of the suc¬ 
cess attending the Times children’s excursions were due, 
will resume this year the management of the Poor Child¬ 
ren’s Excursion Fund. Some $550 are already in hand. 
Further subscriptions will be received by Wm. Butler 
Duncan, 11 Nassau street, Edward King, Union Trust 
Company, Charles H. Marshall, 38 Burling slip, Theodore 
Roosevelt, 94 Maiden lane, George H. Brodhead, 12 Wall 
street, Trustees, <fec. While many of our readers are en¬ 
joying the sports of the forest and stream, drinking in pure 
mouthfuls of air, and acquiring renewed health, let them 
not forget the poor inmates of the slums. 
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Yesterday the Philadelphia Zoological Society 
opened their garden at Fairmount Park. We have before 
this noticed the progress made by this society. It is highly 
creditable that the work they have inaugurated is entirely 
due to private exertions. We believe with the nucleus 
they now have that ip time they will have the most exten¬ 
sive collection in the United States. 
FISH IN SEASON IN JULY. 
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Salmon, Salmo S'alar. Salmon trout, Salmo cm finis. 
Trout, Salmo fontinalis Shad, Alosa. 
Land-locked Salmon, Salmo gloveri MichiganGrayling, Thymallus tricole? 
Black Bass, micropterus salmoides, micropterus nigricans. 
Striped Bass, Roccus lineatus . Sea trout, Salrno mirnaculatus. 
Bluelish, temnodon saltator. Weakftsh. 
—Salmon plenty in market at twenty-five cents. Bulk 
of salmon coming from the Provinces. We saw one at 
Middleton & Carman’s weighing over forty pounds. Moon 
fish mentioned by us some time ago, as a fish almost un¬ 
known, is now becoming appreciated, our principle hotels 
buying them. Before long when their excellence is known, 
they will be among the most highly prized fish in market. 
Spanish mackerel plenty at twenty five cents. The first 
caught in our neighborhood was off Monmouth, N. J., and 
brought $1 a pound. Bass still plenty, and very cheap, 
fifteen cents for big ones, three cents advance for smaller 
ones. The catch off Cape Cod is said to be very large. 
Blue fish abundant at six cents. Soft crabs scarce, and 
diminishing in quantity. King fish rather scarce at twenty 
cents. A big catch of pompinos, fully 350 pounds, came 
into market last week, sold at fifty cents. 
—Bass-fishing is in order now at Squidnocket, West 
Island, Cuttyliunk, Pasque Island, Gay Head and all along 
the shores of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. When 
the bass begin to take bait there is some inducement to try 
them. In the early part of the season nothing will kill but 
the old bass bob, and the sport connected with fishing with 
it may be easily expressed by a-. The fish thus far 
taken have been unusually clean and handsome. The 
heaviest weight we have yet heard of is forty-seven pounds. 
—Tautog are plentiful and run in fair weight. 
—Cod-fishing on the eastern shores of Prince Edward 
Island has been more than usually successful this season. 
—The oysters at Fair Haven, Conn., both those that 
were planted in the early spring—about 150,000 bushels 
from Virginia—and the native ones, are dying off very 
rapidly from some unknown cause, and there is a prospect 
of high prices next fall. 
—Shad continue to be taken with fly at Holyoke Dam, 
in the Connecticut River, Mr. Chalmers having taken several 
there last week. White miller and brown fly the most 
attractive. 
—A New Haven correspondent mentions having taken a 
shad with a hook baited with angle worm in the Housa- 
tonic River. 
—Fishing on the Racquette River, Adirondacks, has not 
been as good as usual so far, on account of cold weather 
and high water. 
—The very best trout pond in the Adirondacks is one in 
which the boundary lines of three counties intersect. If any 
one can find it, he is welcome to the secret, for the first 
time divulged. 
—Trout fishing in the tributaries of the Housatonic has 
been very good this season, large quantities having been 
taken from the brooks in Stockbridge and Sheffield, Mass., 
and in the vicinity of Canaan and Salisbury, Ct. A 
week ago Mr. Pease, of Twin Lakes, took a large number of 
ten-inch trout from a branch of the Blackberry River to 
stock his pond with. Bass and pickerel fishing is now in 
its prirfie at Twin Lakes. This locality can be reached by 
New Haven and Housatonic Railroads, or by I^arlem and 
Connecticut Western Railroad. 
—Joe Jefferson (Rip) and son, and Mr. Pope of the St. 
Louis Theatre, were on the Beaverkill last week, and 
exulted in the capture of several fine trout. There is the 
very best rabbit shooting in the mountains in this vicinity, 
and when the shooting season comes next fall, Joe is going 
to take “Schneider.” 
—F. Hosley, F. G. Kelsey, C. Nellis and Seymour 
Harvey, of Durhamville, spent one day at the Williams 
Hotel, Osceola, Lewis county, and before night caught one 
hundred pounds of trout. 
—A party of gentlemen from Lyndon Center, Me., visited 
Portage Lake, Me., recently and brought home one hundred 
pounds of nice trout as the results of two day’s fishing. 
—For a useful handy little guide to the magnificent 
region of country which surrounds Mooseliead, w T e would 
call the attention of tourists and sportsmen to the “Guide to 
Mooseliead Lake,” just published. The map will be found 
very accurate, giving a thorough picture of the innumera¬ 
ble lesser lakes which fill up the county. The book can 
be had for a dollar, either of Messrs. A. Clerk & Co., 
Maiden Lane, New York, or of John Krider in Philadel¬ 
phia. We would advise any one going to that section of 
country, to take the Guide with them. 
—Mr. W. W. Hill, of Albany, captured in the Adiron¬ 
dacks, last week, a trout that weighed four and a quarter 
pounds, and measured twenty-one inches in length. It was 
taken with red fly and six ounce cedar rod. 
—Our Minnesota correspondent, “Haviland,” writes 
from Brainerd, June 20th, thus:— 
“I have had rare fishing this season in Gull Lake; this 
week four of us caught forty-two black bass in part of an 
afternoon, some of them weighing six pounds, with live 
bait, next day 130 pike perch (wall-eyed pike). Later. at 
Withington (Serpent Lake) 300 pounds in one day, (same 
party), black-bass, rock-bass, pickerel, “croppy’s” and 
perch. If any good fellows want some star fishing, have 
them write to me; I will be pleased to do anything for 
your friends or readers ” 
—At Janesville, Wisconsin, on Saturday, June 20tli, 
Richard Valentine and brother took fifty-four black-bass, 
average weight two pounds, in little over three hours, 
using minnows for bait. 
—Messrs. J. H. Wilder and II. G. Olds, of Fort Wayne, 
Indiana, start for the Nepigon River on 16th July. Quite 
a nurnbey of anglers are booked this jnonth for the same 
locality. 
—Salmon fishing is now excellent on the Lower St. 
Lawrence, although it was much retarded by the lateness 
of the season and high water in the rivers. 
—The Massachusetts Anglers’ Association of Boston is 
rapidly increasing its strength and its usefulness. Its 
efforts have already greatly curtailed illegal fishing in the 
Bay State. 
—We are indebted to W. F. Whitcher, Esq., Canadian 
Fish Commissioner, for valuable printed documents relat¬ 
ing to the Dominion fisheries. 
—A very good pack basket for camping purposes can be 
seen at Pritchard Bros., 94 Fulton street, New York. 
It is the regular Indian wicker basket covered with can¬ 
vas and arranged with hasp and lock. The canvas cover 
of course adds to its strength, and renders it water-proof. 
The lock is adjusted in such a manner as to make it quite 
secure and perfectly safe to send by freight or express. 
The basket is intended to be packed at home and to go to 
the camp, as it is arranged with straps for a man’s back, or 
so it can be carried as a pannier upon a horse. The great 
trouble of repacking at the end of the railroad and at the 
beginning of the tramp is thus dispensed with. It is very 
easy to get at along the route, and makes a capital and 
durable camp stool. As it is secured with a lock, the rail¬ 
road companies do not object to checking it, as they fre¬ 
quently do camp equipage without a lock. Messrs. Pritch¬ 
ard Bros, will have these baskets for sale. 
—A letter from Manitou, Colorado, dated June 20th, 
says that certain parties had just returned from the South 
Park with five hundred pounds of speckled trout. 
Rangely Lakes.— Our first letter from Camp Kinnebago, 
which appears herewith appended, was inadvertently left 
.over from the week previous, much to our regret.— Ed. 
Q a-m-p Kennebago, Me., June 13,1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Our party arrived in good condition this evening, although the roads 
were pretty rough from Phillips to camp, and the “carry” in a very 
moist state, on account of the rain of the past few days. We find the 
Rangely and Kennebago Rivers very much swollen, the logs not having 
all departed, a boom of some two and one-half million feet being still 
retained above the dam @n the Rangely stream. The weather has been 
quite cold and disagreeable, but to-day is very delightful and the ther¬ 
mometer indicates 69 in the shade. The Kennebago stream has furn¬ 
ished the best fishing so far, although “Indian Eddy,” on the Rangely, 
holds its own as usual. The only large trout so far were taken by Mr. 
T. L. Page’s party, ten days since, two weighing each 5 and 6 pounds. 
We encountered snow banks on the road from Phillips to Rangely Lake. 
The following gentlemen are at camp this week: Mr. R. G. Allerton, 
Secretary of the Goodyear Rubber Co.; C. L. DuBois, Washington, D. 
C.; Albon Man and E. D. Griswold, Brooklyn, N. Y.; S. V. C. Van Ren¬ 
sselaer and N. Perry, Jr., Newark, N. J.; E. M. Stillwell and Henry O. 
Stanley, Fish Commissioners of Maine; J. H. Kimball and Clarence 
Warden, Bath, Me.: Adon Smith, Jr. New York; R. C. Taft, Providence, 
R. I.; G. A. Robbins and Wm. Adams, Jr., New York; Lewis B. Reed, 
New Jersey; Thomas Sedgwick Steele, Hartford, Conn.; C. D. Wood, 
New York; George Dawson, editor Albany Evening Journal; Dudley 01- 
cott, Albany, N. Y.; Abraham Lansing, State Treasurer of New York; 
Arthur Brown, Bath, Me., of the Androscoggin Railroad. 
Messrs. Stanley and Stillwell placed in the Rangely stream this week 
some 20,000 young land-locked salmon, and it is ^hought they will add 
greatly to the sport in this vicinity. The black flies have just put in an 
appearance, but as they are an indicator of fine sport among the fish at 
this season, we rub in the tar oil and laugh at them. Joe 
June 20tb.—The following bits of news are all I am able 
to communicate since my last favor from this region. 
With the exception of Monday, June 15th, it has rained all 
the week, thermometer ranging from 48 degrees to 58 
degrees; quite cold, you see. Nevertheless, we have had 
very fair fishing. For the information of those members 
of the O. A. A. desiring to come here, I would say that the 
last of the logs were boomed out of Rangely River yester¬ 
day, June I9th, and the water is rapidly falling. A large 
number have been taken on a fly already, the following 
being the “cast” used: Silver doctor for stretcher, brown 
hackle for 1st, and red hackle for 2d, dropper flies. 
Mr. R. G. Allerton, who has been here for two weeks 
past, has taken the following score over two pounds. 
Four trout which weighed each 24 pounds; nine, 24; two, 
2f; three, 3. . One each of 34, 4, 5, 54, 6, 64 pounds. 
Mr. Geo. Dawson (Editor of the Albany Evening Journal ) 
caught on a fly last night one which weighed 6 pounds, 
and an outsider landed one of 7 pounds this morning. 
There has been very fine fishing at the “upper dam,” and 
now that the logs are out it will greatly increase at this 
camp. 
Some of the most elegant trout as regards color and 
marking have been landed this week, one of them, a three- 
pounder, having no less than eighty-six distinct Vermillion 
spots on one side of it, to say nothing of a large number of 
orange spots, which increased its beauty. Some trout 
have also been caught with red spots on the dorsal fin , and 
also on the sides of the 7iead, but these freaks of nature are 
very rare. Joe. 
Of Muirkirk, June 29, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Last Thursday,- the 25th inst., a party of three went up 
to the Great Falls to try our luck at black bass fishing. 
We found' the water alive with gar fish, about two feet 
long; they would steal the minnows about as fast as put 
on. The bass were very scarce, although a few striped and 
black bass were caught. Parties at the Falls say that the 
gar fish have driven the bass away. Either this, or else 
they have come in such numbers as to destroy the food of 
the bass and compel them to leave for other parts. I 
fished with a fly the first day, but could not get a rise. 
The gar fish would come up to the fly, but would not take 
it. While fishing I saw some gars attack a striped bass 
that was being played by another party; the gars followed 
the fish up and struck at it until it was captured. Are 
these gars considered good to eat? We had some cooked 
and found them very good eating, but were not satisfied 
with the color of the back bone. It had a greenish tinge, 
so that we hesitated about eating them. We were well 
taken care of • by Messrs. Garrett and Maus, who keep a 
very good hotel. 
Yours, &c., C. E. C. 
We are indebted to an ardent friend of our journal for 
the following letter, dated at Utica, June 24th: 
Sir:—In your answer to a correspondent a week ago, as 
to the best manner of reaching the Thousand Islands of 
the St. Lawrence, you mentioned the old route via Rome, 
Cape Yincent. Last fall the Utica, Black River and 
Odgensburg Railroad, completed its track directly to 
Clayton, and I enclose you time table, Their trains connect 
directly with Hudson 'River and New York Central Rail¬ 
road here, passing through Trenton Falls, Boonville, Port 
Leydon, Lowville and Carthage, Boonville and Port Ley- 
don being the better points for reaching the chain of lakes 
of Brown’s tract, the last named point affording the better 
roads, while Louisville is but eighteen miles from Fenton’s 
on Beaver River, which affords the sportsman a route 
through Smith and Albany Lake, either through Tupper’s 
to Long Lake, or an eight mile portage to the Big Moose, 
to the fourth lake of the chain, or down the Moose River 
to Arnold’s and the old Forge. 
Yours truly. C. W. H. 
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—Captain Taylor, of this journal, sends the following 
salmon fishing notes from Cape Breton, dated in camp, on 
the Northeast Fork of the Margaree River, Inverness 
county, June 22d:— 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
I arrived here safely, accompanied by my friend Mr. A. C. Lawrence, 
and attended by two servants (Gaffer and Cook), on June 20th. Started 
from New York June 14th, arrived in Boston at four P. M., thence on 
to St. John, N. B., which train now stops at Bangor, Maine, over night, 
(sad inconvenience). Arrived at St. John Tuesday, June 16th; bought 
supplies, and again took cars for Point du Chene. Wednesday, June 
17th, raining, and blowing a gale; took steamer for Charlottetown, P. E. 
I. Good sea trout fishing on the river Dunk, twenty-five miles from 
Charlottetown. Gale blowing on the Northumberland Straits. Started 
for Pictou, N. S.; weather rainy; blowing like a Scotch mist, with a 
touch of hurricane behind it. June 18th, started for Hawkesbury, Cape 
Breton; thence drove eleven miles to West Bay; took steamer across the 
treacherous Bras D’Or; still blowing a gale, and arrived at Bedeque on 
Friday night, June 19th. On the morning of the 20th we again started 
to drive the thirty-five miles, and so arrived safely at the forks of the 
magnificently lovely valley and river of the Margaree; the water roily 
and high; very few salmon caught as yet this season. The nets at the 
mouth of the river are all blown away, and so the water is free for the 
fish to come up. The fly casting is easy. There are several English offi¬ 
cers here at the different pools. We have half a mile of the river on 
both sides. P. S.—June 22d, six A. M.—Mr. Lawrence has just landed 
a rattling fine salmon of fifteen pounds, and hooked a larger fish on 
single gut. _ _ J.N.T. 
FISHING ON THE JERSEY COAST. 
U Philadelphia, June 26, 1874. 
Our mutual friend, Dr, Kenworthy, can supply reliable 
reports of such tremendous catches of Blue Fish at 
Barnegat, that I feel no disposition to attempt competition 
with him, although I have been led to flatter myself that I 
could hook and handle a blue fish as expertly as the gener¬ 
ality of men. To be frank with you, I have in a great 
measure lost my desire to become the capturer of more fish 
than I can find mouths to consume, and hence am content 
to leave to the agile doctor the well-merited glory of being 
the most successful blue-fisherman on record, and what is 
more, a man who always manages to make a judicious and 
wise disposition of his big takes. 
So far as the Jersey Coast is concerned, Barnegat is un¬ 
doubtedly the most desirable point for blue-fishing, or for 
weakfish, king fisli and bass. This fact is only beginning 
to be fully understood, thanks to Forest and Stream and 
a few other papers. I have had fine sport there, and hope 
to have again before this season is over, but just for variety 
sake I visited Atlantic City this week, arriving there just in 
time to find that the big bluefish, which were very plentiful 
there, for ten days previous had taken their departure 
northward. As I learn by a note from Dr. Kenworthy, he 
intercepted them on Monday at Barnegat, capturing 154, 
weighing 900 lbs. A trial at Atlantic City resulted in a 
beggarly account of seven fair sized fish. 
On Wednesday and Thursday we tried the black fish, 
bass, and weak fish, at the wreck of the Flying Dutchman, 
on Brigantine shoals. The first day the water was exceed¬ 
ingly rough, so that while we caught a great many fish, 
there was not the comfort that we desired. On Thursday, 
the ocean being nearly calm, we tried it again, having to 
use the oars to reach the wreck, our success was good. 
Abandoning the hand line entirely, we, to the amazement 
of our boatman used only the rod and reel. Many wefe 
the predictions in regard to the fate of our tackle, all ot 
which were happily unverified. Our first catch was a 
porgy, of - all things* the most desirable, as it furnished us 
