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J. B. N., Nichols, Conn.— Please inform me "where I can obtain 

 pheasants' eggs for hatching and price. Ans. E. B. Woodward, 

 of 174 Chambers street, New York, can import them if an order 

 should be given for 100 dozen. Correspond with him. 



A. H. C, Cincinnati, O.— Canoe tents were descrided in Forest 

 and Stream of March 14, 1889, also in previous numbers. There 

 are several good patterns of high rowlocks for boats, which are 

 kept in stock by the leading dealers. We can recommend no 

 special make. 



J. H., Lyme, Ct.— I want to find a place South (say in Georgia or 

 Florida) free from malaria and where 1 can get snme shooting-— 

 ducks, etc. What is your opinion of Brunswick, Ga.? Ans. We 

 imagine Brunswick would be a good place to make headquarters, 

 making trips from that point. No ducks there now, however. 



Several Anglers, New York.— In your last issue you men- 

 tioned that the open season for trout commenced May 1. Please 

 state if the correct date is not April 1. Ans. This statement was 

 intended to apply only to the Adirondack region or North Woods. 

 For the rest of the State the date is April 1. 



A. F. M., Minnehaha Falls, Minn.— What is the trajectory of 

 the Winchester rifle cartridge .38 W. C. F. Ans. We have never 

 tested it. That of the Winchester .40-TO-310 is 2.oin. at 50yds. in 

 100yds. test and llJ4ir>. at 100yds. in 200yds. test. Trajectory of .38 

 would be higher. See Forest and Stream's "Trajectories of 

 Hunting Rifles." 



Sportsman, Kingston, N. B.— I have just had a new applewood 

 stock put on my gun. Will you please give me the best method 

 of staining it? Perhaps staining would not do, as oiling or some 

 other method would be better. Ans. Dissolve a few crystals of 

 permanganate of potash in water'and rub well into the wood. 

 Alkanet. root steeped in linseed oil is sometimes used, the oil, 

 after it has become bricht red. being rubbed into the wood. 



J. S. H., Wyalusing, Pa.— 1. Can you tell me where the English 

 rabbit or hare, such as Lorillard imported and are now plentiful 

 in New Jersey, can be found for sale? We want them for restock- 

 ing. 2. Will wild rice and celery thrive in the creeks, ponds and 

 rivers of northern Pennsylvania, and can it be found for sale any 

 place? Ans. 1. Write to E. B. Woodward, 174 Chambers street, 

 New York. 2. Rice will grow, but it is doubtful about celery. 

 Correspond with Ohas. Gilchrist, Port Hope, Ont., and R. Valen- 

 tine, Janesville, Wis. 



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W. S. wishes address of some one who can tell him about the 

 hunting and trapping in St. Louis county, Minn., near the Duluth 

 & Iron Range R. R. 



INTELLIGENCE OF ANIMALS.* 



IN his "Glimpses of Animal Life" Mr. Jones has collected an ex- 

 tremely interesting series of examples of the intelligence of 



*Glimpses | of | Animal Life. | A Naturalist's Observations on 

 the Habits | and Intelligence of Animals. | By | William Jones, 

 F.S.A., | Author of | "The Treasures of the Earth," "The Broad, 

 Broad Ocean," I etc. | Quotation | London: | Elliot Stock, (52, Pater- 

 noster Row. 1 1880. | 12mo., pp. 229. Forest and Stream Pub. Co. 

 Price $1.50. 



all sorts of animaK The most narrow-minded person, after read- 

 ing through this book, will scarcely deny to animals, or at all 

 events to vertebrated animals, intelligence and reasoning powers 

 of a much higher order than is usually attributed to them. 



This book is divided into seven chapters, which deal with the 

 "Playfulness of Animals," "Animal Training," "Musical Fishes," 

 "Nest-Building and Walking Fishes," "Luminous Animals," 

 "Birds' Nests in Curious Places," and "The Mole." 



The book does not profess to be more than a compilation of the 

 most interesting accounts that have been written, giving ex- 

 amples of animal intelligence, and of curiosities of animai lif<*. 

 In the first chapter the author discusses the sense of humor, or 

 more properly of fun, as it exists in animals. Familiar examples 

 of this are the playfulness of puppies, of kittens and of colts, but 

 Mr. Jones gives a great number of instances of this spirit 

 in a- variety of animals, of birds, and even of insects. In the 

 chapter on "Animal Training," Mr. Jones has collected a great 

 deal of very interesting material. He tells us of the elephants, 

 written of by Suetonius, who danced the tight rope, and of the 

 tame beasts trained bv Robert de Belun in the twelfth century, 

 as well as of the trained mammals, birds and insects of modern 

 days. 



Fishes actually musical are perhaps mythical and to be classed 

 with nvmphs and tritons and mermaids, yet there are un- 

 questionably fishes which emit sounds. The well-known drum- 

 fish (Pogonias) is one of these, and the grunt another. Even more 

 interesting are the accounts of the nest-building and walking 

 fishes, whose extraordinary habits are known to naturalists, but 

 to few others. Many of our well known fish prepare spawning 

 beds to receive their eggs, but there are some fish which conslruct 

 very elaborate nests from the twigs of seaweed or other water 

 plants. The climbing perch and somi other walking fish have 

 also long been known to science, but of their curious habits but 

 few of the general public know much. 



Glowworms and fireflies are among the most common of the 

 luminous animals, but they are not the only ones. A gecko lizard, 

 earthworms and centipedes, together with many fishes and 

 marine animals, emit light under favorable circumstances. An 

 interesting account of birds' nests in unusual places aud the 

 chapter on the mole concludes this book, which is really a valu- 

 able one. The author's style is very pleasant and the book on 

 all accounts abundantly worth reading. No one who is fond of 

 animals or of nature ought to be without it. 



LIFE OUT OF DOORS.* 



WE know of few books which hold more charming pictures of 

 country life than Mr. Knight's "Idylls of the Field." They 

 are pictures of still life, so to speak, sketches drawn by an ob- 

 server, who goes about with his eyes wide open, and who has a 

 keen appreciation of all that is beautiful and that is inter- 

 esting in nature. A flash of sunlight, a track in the snow, 

 the rustling of an auimal in the dry grass, the song of a bird, all 

 tell their story to him, and it is the sum of these stories that he 

 gives us in his delightful book. Here is a fine picture of dawn on 

 a winter's morning on the seashore: 



"On the sands below a few oystercatchers and a redshank ox- 

 two wander up and down along the lines of weed that are left as 

 the tide goes out, or explore the little heaps of foam tbat are 

 lightly tossed this way and that by the wind. The gulls are mostly 

 out at sea, or scattered over the fields inland, in company with 

 curlews and plovers, who have left the frozen sands to forage in 

 the furrows. Suddenly, in a hollow among the sandhills, whose 

 hoary sedges seem still whiter in this pallid light, there is a stir 



* Idylls of the Field. | By | Francis A. Knight. ] Author of "By 

 Leafy Ways." | Illustrated by E. T. Compton. | Cut. | London. I 

 Elliot Stock. 63 Paternoster Row. 1 1889. | [All Rights Reserved.] | 

 12mo. pp. 182. Forest and Stream Pub. Co. Price, $1.50. 



as of some moving animal. There is a hasty gallop of light feet 

 behind a ridge of sand, and then— a fox leaps lightly down upon 

 the shore, joined half a second later by another, following in hot 

 pursuit. Fine fellows they are, with their thick brushes tipped 

 with white, and with a tinge of gray upon their winter coats. One 

 behind the other they canter easily down to the edge of the water, 

 as if in hopes of picking up for breakfast some wounded teal or 

 mallard that may have drifted in with the tide. They leap 

 over a little promontory of rock and disappear behind the 

 sandhills. Here they come again, racing along side by side. 

 Now they pause upon the sand, and turn and face each 

 other, and leap and dance, and snarl playfully like two unthink- 

 ing cubs, forgetful altogether of dignity and decorum. Now one 

 turns and dashes off, followed instantly by the other, and vound 

 aud round they go, now in line, now side by side, as full of fun 

 and as intent upon their game, as if there were no hounds in the 

 county and a view-halloo was a thing forgotten. But alasl they 

 stop short: they hold their heads high and look round with eager 

 suspicion. * * * They are gone, and the beach once more is 

 empty and deserted. Suddenly, as swift as thought, along the 

 jagged edge of yonder purple clouds there flashes out a thin line of 

 gold. Over it hovers a thin ethereal fan of light like the herald an- 

 gel of the dawn. Broader grows the fringe of gold, swiftly running 

 left and right along the cloudy heights and reddening as it goes. 

 Tiny cloudlets, unseen before, are touched with glowing fire and 

 float like attendant spirits clad in burnished gold. It is the gold 

 of Paradise. No ore of earthly mine ever shone with a luster a 

 hundredth part so fair. 



"Now the broadening glow has kindled into flame, glorious, daz- 

 zling, uufupportable. Now look agaiu. Round and fair the sun 

 has arisen on the wakening world. And lo! the cold earth, as by 

 the wand of a magician, is transfigured by its light. All the color 

 has gone out of the cloudbank that, but a few moments since, 

 stood out against the glowing east a rampart as solid a*= the Alps. 

 It is there still, but the eye can scarcely trace its shadowy out- 

 line on the sky. * * * 



"The sea that was so cold aud dark is shot with green and purple, 

 while the wet sand shines like a very opal. Wandering sea birds 

 catch the light upon their shining wings. The dark plumage of a 

 solitary cormorant— as still as if carved out of the basalt on which 

 he stands— shines with added gloss as the sun glances on his dusky 

 wings. Just beyond him a flock of pintails — the sea pheasants of 

 the fishermen— are making for the shore, diving as they drift 

 along. Further out a fleet of eider ducks ride lazily on the heav- 

 ing wave." 



Of such pictures we find many in this delightful book, which 

 contains the following chapters: A Wintry Dawn, Winter in 

 the Marshes, Footprints in the Snow, A Secret of the Hills, 

 Heralds of the Spring, His Island Home, Castles in the Air, 

 Meadows of Asphodel, When all the World is Young, The Postun 

 Gate, At the Bend of the River, Their First Appearance, The Gift 

 of Song, A Robber Stronghold, A Seabird's Haunt, Flower-de- 

 luce, Cheddar Cliffs, In the Heart of the Mountains, In the Heart 

 of the Forest, A New Face at the Door, His Native Heath, etc. 

 The fine illustrations, of great beauty and softness, add much to 

 the interest of this book. 



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