Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, JANUARY 13, 188 7. 



J VOL. XXVlI.-No. 25. 



i Nos. 39 & 40 Pabk Row, New York. 





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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Tliirteen Days. 



Pity in a Hostile Camp. 



An Audubon Magazine. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



A Day of Deceptions. 



Travels in Boon Gah Arrah- 

 biggee. 



"Bike." 



A Wood Road. 

 Natural History. 



MTiat a Bird Said. 



Captive Moose. 



Florida Bird Notes. 



Hibernating Animals and 

 Reptiles. 



Breeding Wild Pigeons. 



The Terns of Matmicus Rock. 

 Cajvip-Fire Flickerings. 

 Ga^ee Bag -o>-d Gun. 



In Turkey Cover. 



Coot Shooting. 



A Three-Pronged Buck. 



Virginia Mountains. 



New England Game. 



Stoves in Camp. 



Rifles Again. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



The Coming Tournament. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 The Six-Inch Trout Law. 

 The California Sea-Elephant. 

 Angling Notes. 



FiSHCULTURE. 



Salmon in the Hudson. 

 Michigan Needs Wardens, 

 The Kennel. 

 Eastern Field Trials Club. 

 The Indiana Kennel Club. 

 Fox-Terrier Club Stakes. 

 The Irish Setter. 

 The Beagle Club. 

 Mastiff Type. 



A New England Fox-Hunt. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle .\nd Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery, 



The Trap. 

 Y'ACHTTNG. 



The Plans of the Thistle. 



Th e Schooner-Smack Grampus 

 Canoeing. 



The Association Trophy. 



R«gatta Programme for 1887. 



The W. C. A. Executive Com- 

 mittee Meeting. 



Canoes vs. Sailing Boats. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



PITY IN A HOSTILE CAMP. 



UP in the Northwest Province and in Alberta live the 

 Cree Indians. Just south of the boundary line in 

 Northwestern Montana live the Peg-unny, a tribe of the 

 once powerful Blackf eet nation. From time immemorial 

 the Crees and the Pegunny have been bitter enemies. 

 Many a bloody battle has been fought betw^een them; 

 many a horse-stealing party, sent out by one tribe against 

 the other, has never returned, but, sm-prised by the 

 enemy, has been killed; and the scalps have dried in the 

 smoke of hostile fires. 



In the days of the Kiel rebellion in Canada, a number 

 of Cree bands took side with the half-breeds. When the 

 latter were defeated some of the hostile chiefs were tried 

 and sent to prison. Others escaped, and with their fol- 

 lowers have since been wandering far from the reserva- 

 tions, ever in fear of tlie Canadian Grovernment. Soon 

 after the rebelhon was crushed out one of these little 

 bands of Crees escaped over the line. It was led by Big 

 Bear's Son. They tried hard to get along after the flight 

 into Montana, but there is scarcely any game to be had 

 there, and they had nothing to trade for provisions, so 

 they were starving. Day by day they gi-ew weaker; day 

 by day their condition became more hopeless. Then the 

 Httle ones began to die. They liad at last to eat the few 

 horses that were left. But the winter was just beginning, 

 and they could see well enough that unless something 

 were done they would all starve before spring. In theu" 

 desperation they determined to go in to the Pegunny 

 Agency and tlu-ow themselves on the mercy of their old- 

 time enemies. 



So one day the little company were seen straggling 

 slowly and feebly down the bluffs toward the broad val- 

 ley and the Agency. They had only two horses left; and 

 the laden and himger-enfeebled people came on at a 

 snail's pace. As they aj)proached they were recognized 

 by the Pegamny, who wondered what had brought this 

 little band of their enemies into the very midst of them. 

 When witliin about 300yds. of the stockade, the Crees 

 halted and began to sing the peace song. Then the Cree 

 chief placed his aa-ms on the ground and came forward 

 and was met by the chief of the Pegxinny. The Cree 



chief made a speech, telling liis hearers of the miser- 

 able and desperate condition of his little band. The chiefs 

 of the Pegunny replied; they expressed pity for the mis- 

 fortunes of their enemies, and invited them to stay and 

 eat. It was a most affecting sight to see the meeting of 

 these people, and more than one man unused to tears 

 brushed from his eyes the drops that sacred pity liad 

 engendered. 



The Blackfoot Agent told the Crees that they could not 

 remain at the Agency; that they were British Indians and 

 could not be fed by our Government. 



Then an old Piegan stexiped out from the crowd and 

 said to him: "Here is misery and starvation, jjeople so 

 weak and hungry that they can hardly stand; yet you 

 keep them talking. Why not have a little pity in your 

 heart? Let them alone and we will take care of them." 



So the Pegunny, their lifelong enemies, took the Crees 

 away to their lodges, fed them, cared for them and kept 

 them. 



Who after this can say that an Indian has no feeling? 



AN AUDUBON MAGAZINE. 

 npHE methods of personal letter writing and circular 

 distribution, heretofore adopted hy the Audubon 

 Society, have proved inadequate to keep pace with the 

 growth of the movement, and noAv the Society is to have 

 its own special medium in the w^orld of .iournalism. The 

 Audubon Magazine, devoted to extending and building 

 up song-bird protection, will be published in the in- 

 terest of the Society by the Forest and Stream Publishing 

 Co. The special purpose of tlie new monthly will be to 

 advance the work already so well under way, give sta- 

 bility and permanence to that work, and broaden the 

 sphere of effort in such duectious as may with reason 

 suggest themselves. Ornithology , discussed in a popular 

 way, will, as a matter of course, take pi'ecedence over 

 other subjects of natural history, to which the pages of 

 the new- magazine v\-ill be largely devoted, but it will 

 treat of outdoor life and animated nature in many forms. 

 The price has been made merely nominal — fifty cents per 

 year — and that is the only cheap thing about it. The 

 first number, for January, wHU be ready shortly. We 

 bespeak for the Audubon a generous %velcome and the 

 full measm'e of support it must be entitled to. 



The Audubon Society will hereafter grant admission 

 to associate membership. This step is taken out of defer- 

 ence to the expressed desires of a large number of per- 

 sons who are in hearty sympathy with the Society in 

 its aims and in all of its methods except the pledging of 

 members. For one reason or another such persons do 

 not care to sign the Axidubon Pledges. They will, ]iow - 

 ever, be glad to lend to the Avork their influence and 

 active aid, and it is therefore desirable that they should 

 in some way be recognized. 



THIRTEEN DA YS. 



npHE city of Brooklyn is the second in pouit of size in 

 ^ America; at its fjresent rate of growth it promises to 

 be the first. And this great city has a game protector. 

 This official is Mr. Geo, W. Whitaker, who lives at South- 

 ampton. The distance by rail between Southampton and 

 Brooklyn is ninety -one miles, and the schedule time is 

 3hrs. 38min, By a game protector's route the distance is 

 ninety-one hundred miles, and the schedule time thirteen 

 days, barring snow drifts and freshets. With an officer 

 who is sworn to enforce the law liable to swoop down 

 upon them in such swift flight, Brooklyn dealers in illicit 

 game are naturally wary, and they lay in only such a 

 supply of snared ruffed grouse as they have reason to sup- 

 pose can be sold within a month or two after the season 

 has closed. In an hour's stroll through Brooklyn streets 

 one day last week fourteen different shops Avere noted 

 where ruffed grouse were unlawfully displayed for sale. 

 This was several days after the close of the season as well 

 as several days in advance of Game Protector Whitaker's 

 visit, which, if all went well, might be exj)ected on the 

 thirteenth of the month. 



According to schedule time, the protector is due in 

 Brooklyn to-day. Whether or not he arrives there on 

 time, and whether anything startling happens to the 

 illicit grouse dealers, will be told in our next issue. In 

 the meantime, it is suggested that a Long Island game 

 protector who consumes thiiteen days in going from 

 Southampton to Brooklyn is as much of a success as the 

 New York city game protector who patrols the markets 

 blindfolded. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 'T^HE Kentucky Court of Appeals has just rendered an 

 interesting decision in the case of one Hazlewood, 

 indicted for dog- stealing. The lower courts decided that 

 a dog was not property and hence not a subject of lar- 

 ceny. The Appellate Comt has overruled tliis demurrer 

 and decided that dogs are property. The text of the 

 opinion will be given in our next issue. The Mount Ver- 

 non, N. Y., treatment of dog thieves, reported elsewhere, 

 ought to be emulated. 



The present season, with its generous snow falls, ia 

 beginning to be spoken of as a "regular old-fashioned 

 winter." There have been a number of ice storms, and 

 these are always trying to the game. In many sections 

 of New Hampshire and other parts of New England there 

 is a lieavy snow crust and the trees are loaded down 

 with ice. It is a good time to note how the grouse fare 

 under these circumstances, and we shaU be glad to have 

 reports on these points. 



The jNlichigan Sportsmen's Association's convention at 

 Lansing next Tuesday ought to be well attended. Michi- 

 gan's game interests are now practically in the hands of 

 market hunters, and it will be the special effort of the 

 Association to secure the long needed game police force. 

 Governor Luce, in his message, i-ecommends that a 

 lake fisheries warden be provided, so that the work of 

 the fisli eoDimissioners may not be frustrated by greedy 

 netters. 



Mr. H. H. Briggs. one of the editors of the San Francisco 

 Breeder and Spui-fsman. has this year attended the West- 

 ern, Eastern and National field trials, having judged at 

 tlie first and reported the others. He is now on a tour of 

 inspection among the prominent kennels of the East. Mr. 

 Briggs lias everywhere made many friends, and his visit 

 will do much to bring into closer relationship the sports- 

 men of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. 



Tliese are tliree Avords to remember: Abolish Spring 

 Shooting. They are words which will have a queer sound 

 to readers of the Foeest and Stkeam in 1987, for by that 

 time the average American sportsman will be blessed 

 Avith sense enough to permit breeding game to pass north- 

 ward unmolested to its nest ing groimds, and no one will 

 then dream of spring shooting, nor quite comprehend 

 how we used to kill bu-ds about to lay eggs. 



"Bike," the pet bear of the Missouri Bicycle Club, of 

 St. Loius, is dead. In the brief period of his gentle cap- 

 tivity he had found his way to the hearts of his proud 

 possessors, and liow poignant is their grief at his untimely 

 taking off is pictured in the paper they send to the 

 Forest and STREAii. Meanwhile our own Avinsome 

 grizzlies are pursuing their seductive gambols in the pit 

 at Central Park. 



How all-embracing in geographical range is the Forest 

 AND Stream has just been shown in a pleasant way by 

 calls received at this office, in four successive days, from 

 Dr. R. C. Hodges, of Galveston; Mr. H. H. Briggs, of San 

 Francisco; Mr. Henry J, Thayer, Secretary of the Massa- 

 chusetts Fish and Game Protective Association, Boston, 

 and Commodore J. U. Gregory, of the Quebec Y. C. 



The New York geniits Avho has set out to eat forty quail 

 in forty days, begimiing Jan. 5, has doubtless devised 

 some plan to croAvd his forty days into the present month; 

 or perhaps Ave are to see a repetition of the quail-devour- 

 ing feat in close season that made such a scandal here 

 two or three years ago. 



The annual dinner of the Massachusetts Fish and Game 

 Protective Association Avill be giA^en at the Parker House, 

 Boston, Jan. 25. The fish commissioners of Nevs^ England . 

 are expected to be present, Avith many others interested 

 in the work of the Association. 



Brant are reported in gi-eat numbers on the waters of 

 Accomack county, Va. A correspondent Avriting from 

 Mappsburgh says that gunners are killing the fowl "right 

 and left," and several barrels of spoils have been shipped 

 from that station. 



"Nessmuk's" book of poems, "Forest Eunes," will be a 

 larger book than was anticipated. It will approach 200 

 pages. We hope to announce its appearance from the 

 press very. soon. 



