Oct. 21, 1886.] 



FOREST ANt) STftl^AM. 



YACHTS BOUGHT AND SOLD.-Tlie Skylark, steam yacht, 

 formerly owned by Mr. Alexander Taylor, Jr., and afterward by 

 Lester WaUack, was sold at auction last week for 356,500 to Mr. E. 



E. Roberts, tJie steam yacbt builder Southern Cross, schooner, 



has been sold to Mr. J. H. Honan Republic, schooner, has bten 



sold to Mr. Chas. H. Watrous, N. Y. Y. C. 



mwen to ^amsfiandent^. 



No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 



C. W. D., Adirondacks, N. Y.— John D. Gifford, Timis River, N- 

 J., is the builder of the Barnegat sneakbox. 



C. C. P. —A steam yacht must carry a licensed engineer and pilot 

 according to law. The sailing boat can recover damages if she 

 obeys the rules as to lights, etc., whether she has papers or not. 



S. D. E.— 1. There are sjpecial works on special branches of natural 

 history; if you will tell us Avhat branch you wish a book on we will 

 advise you. 2. A trout may bo bottled in alcohol and sent by ex- 

 press. 



A. H., N. Y.— You cannot remove mildew entirely. Scrub the 

 sail on both sides with water and bro%vn soap, rub the latter well 

 in and sprinkle whiting on both sides, allowing it to dry. See the 

 Forest ane Stream of May 21, 1885, for other information. 



BisAGLE.— You will not need a license in Ontario, but will need 

 one in Quebec, New Brunswick or Nova Scotia. The injury to 

 your beagle is of sucli long standing that a cure is doubtful; we 

 could not tell without examining it. Consult a veterinary. 



Plover.— At Atlantic City, N. J., in August a large iish was ex- 

 hibited labeled in large capitals as an aiigel fish. It was an ocean 

 sunlish (Mola rotunda). The man there said it weighed about 

 4001bs., and stated that it had been caught a short distance off the 

 coast. Is not this an unusual locality for the sunlish? Ans. The 

 ocean sunflsh is found in summer on the Atlantic coast from the 

 I Banks of Newfoundland to Florida. 



Yawl, Philadalpliia.— You cannot make the alteration you pro- 

 pose in the design. TJie boat will not do without all or nearly all 

 her ballast on keel. She ^vill need no centerboard. If you will 

 consult "Small Yaclits," published at this office, you will find de- 

 signs for all types of yachts, perliaps some that will suit you better 

 than the one mentioned. 



Beach Havbt^.— In "Marsh Shooting in Cape Cod," issue of 

 Oct. 7, 1880, p. 206, Boston refers to blackbreasts, summers and 

 grassbirds as varieties of bay-snipe. Are not these names local? The 

 same birds must pass along the New Jersey bays,but I do not know 

 them by these names. Ans. The black-bellied plover (Squatarola 

 helvetica) is called black-breast in some localities; and this name 

 is also common for the red-backed sandpiper {Tringa aljnva, var. 

 americana), grassbirds are perhaps jack-snipe (Tringa macidata), 

 they are in some localities so called; the summers are presumably 

 summer yellow-legs (Totamis flavipes). 



1343,000 Avas paid in 1884 for claims under the life policies of the 

 Travelers, of Hartford, Conn., and $1,390,000 to life and accident 

 claimants together.— J-Civ. 



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