Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, MAY 26, 1887. 



I VOL. XXYIII.-No. 18. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



Boston Newspaper Enterprise. 



She Did It. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Halcyon Days.— YI. 



Wewahitchka. 



Bee Hunting. 



Concerning Herbert. 

 Natural History. 



Prairie Dog Habits. 



Vicissitudes of Collecting. 



Caribou Notes. 



Wisconsin Song Bird Law. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



G. T. T. 



Rain and Mud. 



New York Game Law. 



Rifles and Bullets. 



Game. Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



A Sierra Foothill stream. 



The Adirondack^. 



The Nipissing Region. 



Maine Waters. 



A Short Key. 



"Rare Old Ben." 



Lopez Creek. 



Idaho Notes. 



The Angling Tournament. 

 The Ichthyopagous Club. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Old aud New Records. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



Shad Culture. 



Salmon in the Hudson. 

 The Kennel. 



Are Show Spaniels Suitable 

 for Work? 



Am. Kennel Club Methods. 



American Kennel Register. 



The Detroit Dog Show. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



Decoration Day Trophy. 



Missouri State Shoot. 

 Canoeing. 



Two in a Boat. 



A. C. A. Programme. 



Royal C. C. 



New York C. C. 

 Yachting. 



Yacht Racing and Racing 

 Records. 



The History of the Musquito. 



South Boston Y. C. Open Re- 

 gatta. 



An Open Race at Boston. 

 Eastern Y. C. Regattas. 

 The British Racing Season. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



AMONG the treasures exhibited at the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, perhaps nothing is more 

 striking than the new exhibit of buds in their homes re- 

 cently put on exhibition. This material consists of eigh- 

 teen cases, in each of which is shown a mounted pair of 

 buds with their nest and eggs and all their surroundings 

 modeled after nature. The striking fidelity with which 

 these surroundings are shown is explained by the fact 

 that they are exact reproductions of the actual ground, 

 leaves, shrubs and grass, on or over which these identical 

 nests were found. 



In the case of a ground-nesting bird, the soil is taken 

 up in a block, and with everything upon it is transported 

 to the museum, where impressions of all the perishable 

 parts, such as green leaves, grasses, the soft parts of 

 plants, etc., are taken, for reproduction by Mrs. Mogridge, 

 in a composition which, to the eye, exactly represents the 

 original vegetable material. This having been done, the 

 block of soil is imitated by such a perfect representation 

 as to mislead the most keen observer. Then it is placed 

 upon a base or in a box. The models of the vegetation 

 and the eggs and nest are put in position, and the birds, 

 mounted in life-like attitudes by Mr. Richardson, the 

 taxidermist of the museum, are placed on the ground or 

 in the branches, and the whole thing is complete, and in 

 a glass case might last a thousand years. 



In the case of tree-nesting species, the shrub in which 

 the nest was placed, together with the subjacent soil and 

 all that was on it, is brought to the museum and treated 

 in the same way. The leaves and flowers of the plant are 

 reproduced, and the whole case seems like a little bit of 

 the forest removed to the museum. A long description 

 might be given to each of the eighteen cases which con- 

 tain the different species which are here shown, but the 

 cases themselves must be seen to actually appreciate the 

 truth of these exquisite bits of nature. 



The species represented are most of them our familiar 

 birds: the robin, wood thrush, brown thrasher, song 



sparrow, field sparrow, swamp sparrow, Beaside and sharp- 

 tailed finches, yellow warbler, worm-eating warbler, red- 

 eyed and white-eyed vireos, Louisiana water thrush, 

 redstart, cardinal and rose-breasted grosbeaks, clapper 

 rail and oven bird. 



These beautiful scenes are but a beginning of what it is 

 intended to show later on in the American Museum of 

 Natural History. The birds are not to have a monopoly 

 there. Arrangements are now on foot for representing 

 the smaller mammals in their homes in the same way. 

 An effort will be made to obtain specimens of these 

 mammals and their young, as well as sections of their 

 burrows, nests, or houses, so that visitors to this museum 

 may see something more than the mere dried skins which 

 ordinarily stare out of the cases in stiff and unnatural 

 attitudes. It is purposed to give a representation, so far 

 as practicable, of the life histories of these creatures, 

 which will be far more interesting than any other method 

 of showing them. 



In order that this may be done as speedily as possible 

 it is desired that specimens, or rather families, consisting 

 of the male, female and young of each species be sent to 

 the museum, together with their nests and their sur- 

 roundings. In the case of burrowing mammals a section 

 of the burrow should be sent, or, if the distance be not too 

 great, the museum on notification will send a skilled per- 

 son to seoure and attend to the transportation of the 

 material to the museum. The species especially desired 

 at once are the following: mink, otter, skunk, woodchuck, 

 gray rabbit, badger, muskrat, chipmunk, jumping mouse, 

 star-nosed mole, common mole, white-footed mouse, and 

 shrews. 



Any of our readers who may have facilities for obtain- 

 ing such specimens as those referred to, and who are will- 

 ing to assist in so useful a work, are requested to commu- 

 nicate by letter with Mr. Jeness Richardson, American 

 Museum of Natural History, New York city. 



SHE DID IT. 



THERE are some things for the full enjoyment of 

 which a preparatory and reconciling experience is 

 necessary. The glorious and exhilarating sport of water- 

 killing deer at arm's length is one of them. The green- 

 horn, rowed up to his first deer, is quite likely to exhibit 

 a bit of squeamishness. To pour a charge of buckshot 

 into the struggling creature somehow goes against his 

 grain; it is even on record that a certain clergyman, called 

 upon to shoot an exhausted deer in the water, found it 

 impossible to bring himself to the task. 



An incident resembling this occurred on an Adirondack 

 lake one September day not long ago. A city lady had 

 heard her brothers brag so much of killing deer that she 

 resolved to try it herself. They put her into a boat with 

 a guide; the hounds drove the deer into the water; the 

 boatman headed off the animal, quickly rowed up to it 

 and directed the huntress to shoot it. '"'Oh, I can't. Let 

 it go." "If you don't," he replied with an oath, "I will." 

 And she shot it. 



BOSTON NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE. 

 T30STON has again come to the front with special 

 enterprise to meet the rapidly growing needs of 

 yachtsman. The Eastern Y. C. has decided to sail a 

 second regatta in August and will endeavor to secure the 

 continuation of the N. Y. Y. C. cruise to MarbleheBd, 

 and as an extra inducement the Boston Herald has offered 

 a $1,000 cup as a prize for the large single-stickers. Not 

 to be outdone the Boston Globs has arranged for an open 

 regatta for ail yachts of 40ft. and under, to be sailed off 

 City Point on June 25. The details are in the hands of 

 the South Boston Y. C, the expenses being borne by the 

 newspaper. Prizes will be offered for fishing boats in a 

 class apart from the yachts. While Boston papers are 

 actively booming yachting in this way, where are New 

 York's great dailies, which were so loud in the praise of 

 ocean racing last January; what are they doing to help 

 yachting ? The World is just now engaged in the pro- 

 motion of ballooning', a system of navigation that might be 

 adapted to all parts of the country, even where yachts are 

 unknown, but this sort of navigation is far less important 

 just now than that which keeps alive the national inter- 

 est in the pleasure and merchant marine, and the con- 

 struction of fast American vessels. Perhaps when it has 

 provided the denizen of dry land with a means of transport 

 by which he will be independent of the railroads,it will turn 

 its attention to the needs of New York yachting. There 

 is a good opening just now in organizing an open race for 



small craft about New York, or for a special race for the 

 first class yachts, and the other papers might find excel- 

 lent opportunities for the investment of any surplus cash 

 in similar directions. Certainly they owe much to the 

 yachtsmen, who furnish them with pages of news in the 

 dullest season, and they should not be slow, with the ex- 

 ample of the Boston press before them, in making a suit- 

 able return in a manner that will aid materially the inter- 

 ests of- New York yachting. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 TN another column will be found the text of the new 

 ■*- Wisconsin law which makes the killing of many 

 species of small birds for millinery purposes a mis- 

 demeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than $5 nor 

 more than $100. Of this fine, one half shall go to the 

 school fund and one half to the informer. The purpose 

 of this law is most excellent, and it is hoped that it may 

 do a great deal of good. It is open, however, to two most 

 serious objections. On the one hand it will be difficult if 

 not impossible ever to prove that any bird killed was 

 killed for millinery purposes; and, on the other, a great 

 number of birds which deserve j)rotection are omitted 

 from the enumeration of the species forbidden to be killed. 

 The futility of enacting laws dealing with the intention 

 of the possible misdemeanant has been so often shown 

 that it is scarcely necessary to speak of it again. It is 

 impossible to prove the motive which actuates one who 

 commits a wrong. That motive can only be inferred. 

 The killing, except for certain specific purposes, should 

 be absolutely forbidden. 



Our columns contain two instances of fishcultural suc- 

 cess, which should be conclusive to our German friends 

 who have been listening to croakings from Russia to the 

 effect that the artificial propagation of fishes is a delusion. 

 Here are two instances in which rivers have been stocked 

 with species of fish which never existed in them before, 

 and now they are found there in numbers. One of these 

 instances is the introduction of shad on the Pacific coast, 

 and the other is that of the salmon in the Hudson. The at- 

 tention of our German friends is called to these facts, for 

 they have been worried by the attacks of a Russian who, 

 having failed in breeding fish, denounces all fishculture. 



On Friday last Governor Hill gave a hearing to those 

 interested in the bill which recently passed both houses 

 of the Legislature authorizing the building of a fishway 

 in the State dam at Troy. The opponents of the bill are 

 the millers and the Troy Hydraulic Co., who have leases 

 of the water, and claim that a fishway would be an injury 

 to them. It was pointed out that the bill was not in the 

 interests of sportsmen, but for the public good. The Gov- 

 ernor said that the bill did not limit the size of the fish- 

 way nor recognize the rights of the lessees, and recom- 

 mended that it be amended so that the size should be fixed 

 and the time in which fishways should remain open. 



Spratts Patent, of this city, received a cablegram yes- 

 terday from London announcing that a £10 cup would be 

 given for the_ best foxhound owned by an American ex- 

 hibitor at the forthcoming Jubilee show of the Kennel 

 Club; and in another column is announced the shipment 

 of a number of fox-terriers to be entered at that show. 



The Audubon Society now numbers more than 32,000 

 members. The civilized barbarism which the Society 

 was organized to combat has not been wholly abolished, 

 but the outlook now is very different from what it was a 

 year ago; and there is every encouragement in the new 

 aspect of affairs. 



Spring grass plover shooting, and potting on the ground 

 at that, is the variety of sport indulged in in Texas in 

 May. The justification put forward is the common one 

 that migratory game must be taken whenever it can be. 



There is good salmon fishing at Bangor, Me. Last 

 Monday a New York angler took a fish of twenty-two 

 pounds after a struggle of thirty minutes. On Tuesday 

 twenty salmon were scored. 



The weather yesterday was most propitious for the fly- 

 casters at the Harlem Mere tournament, and in this 

 respect the change from autiuun to spring has proved to 

 be a most sensible one. 



The Forest and Stream Decoration Day Trophy will 

 be competed for next Monday by gun clubs representing 

 fifteen States. 



