Forest and Stream: 



A Weekly Journal oe the Rod and Gun. 



TiCRMS, S4 A Yeah. 10 Cts. a Copt, i 

 Six Months, $2. ( 



NEW YORK, APRIL 20, 1893. 



j VOL. XL.— No. 16. 



I No. 318 Broadway, New York. 



COIfTENTS. 



Editorial. 



A Tag for the Duke. 

 Worth Trying. 

 The Trout Opening. 

 The Audubon Monument. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



"Lige.^" 



A Two Days' Outing. 

 Indians and the Big Game. 



Natural History. 



Song of the Western Meadow 



Lark. 

 A Texas Collection. 

 Texas Coyotes. 



Sense of Direction in Animals. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 

 The Tag System. 

 April Talli About Bears. 

 Tacoma's Kesom-ces. 

 A California Preserve. 

 Notable Shots.— VIII. 

 Game Protector Barber. 

 Preserve System in Maine. 

 Tennessee Quail Exportation. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Ouananiche Tackle 



Where the Old Trout Hide. 



In Quest of Bass. 



Bait Casting for Bass. 



Kough Traveling for Poachers. 



A Megantlc Dinner. 



Angling Notes. 



FIshculture. 



Fishculture History. 



The Kennel. 



Denver Dog Show. 



Vote for a Clean Pai^er. 



N. B. C. Trials. 



Points and Flushes. 



That Fake List of Judges. 



Canadian Dogs for World's Fair. 



Flaps from the Beaver's Tail. 



Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



Yachting. 



House-Boats and Hovise-Boat 

 Life. 



Tarpon Springs Y. C. 

 The Cup Races. 

 At City Island. 

 News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



American Canoe Association. 

 On Sable River, Mich. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Rifle Notes. 

 Expert Shooting. 



Trap Shooting. 



Manufacturers' Association. 

 The World's Fair Shoot. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 

 Answers to Queries. 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page V. 



A TAG FOR THE DUKE. 



The Duke of Veragua, who is of dir.ect line of descent 

 from the great Columbus, has come to New York to par- 

 ticiiiate in the festivities of tlie Columbian celebration and 

 to receive, as is fitting to the rightful heir, some measure 

 of the honor and glory accorded to his distinguished an- 

 cestor. In the name of the sportsmen of America we 

 salute the Duke. Spea,king for the shooters, the hunters 

 and the anglers, we extend to him the assurance of our 

 unbounded gratitude that, when the Genoese gave to 

 Ferdinand and Isabel a New World, it was one so richly 

 abounding in the resources of field and stream; and we 

 proclaim our abiding satisfaction that of the game and 

 fish of this continent which at fii'st by providing sub- 

 sistence for the new comers here made life possible to be 

 lived, some fragmentary store still remains to be counted 

 among the luxuries which make life Avorth the living. 



The Duke will find this continent not so well off for 

 game and fish as it was on the occasion of the first visit to 

 America by one of his family, but if the Veraguas are 

 sportsmen, and will do us the honor to prolong their stay 

 with us until the crisp days of a North American autumn, 

 we will undertake that feathers shall be put up w^orthy 

 the matchlock of their ancestor's arquebus, as of the best 

 modern gun from armorer of Castile or Arragon. Or if 

 the Veraguan fancy incline to the slieen of the salmon, 

 the glow and luster of the trout, or the glint of the bass, 

 here in America we will show them such dancing moun- 

 tain streams and placid lakes as the Old World may not 

 boast — ^nay, not even amid those rugged fastnesses where 

 first rose the Cid and made his glorious stand against the 

 infidel. 



The dignitaries of Manhattan have presented to the 

 Duke de Veragua an elaborately-engrossed scroU of parch- 

 ment, conferring upon him the freedom of the city. 

 Empty honor! We extend to him the freedom of the 

 continent — its waters and fields and woods, from ocean 

 to ocean. Fx-ee to him shaE. be its trout from Pennsyl- 

 vania to Oregon, the bass of Wisconsin, the landlocked 

 salmon of New Hampshire, the pickerel of New Jersey, 

 the channel bass of Florida, where roUs the surf as 

 Columbus first beheld it on the silver sands of San Sal- 

 vador. Free to a Veragua shall be the partridge of the old 

 fields of South Carolina, and free that other partridge of 

 the New England hiUside. He may wander at will on 

 trail of deer, caribou or moose in the forests of Maine, or 

 pursue the bounding deer through the ti'ackless wilder- 

 ness of the Alleghanies, New York's North Woods and 

 Michigan's wilds. If Veragua's pleasure is to be found 

 in yet more arduous pursuits, there are the bears in the 

 Mississippi canebrakes and in tlie mountains grizzUes, 

 whose shaggy hides might well test the tough steel of a 

 Toledo blade; elk, antelope and mountain sheep will be 

 found in the Rockies of Wyoming; and on the summits 

 of Montana, Washington and Oregon the clumsy goat, 

 his pelt a prize not tmworthy the quest of a Knight of 

 the Golden Fleece, nor yet the winning by one in whose 

 veins run the blood of him who won a woi"ld. 

 It was not given to the great Chi-istopher to subdue the 



wild creatures of the New World; he never dreamed of 

 the western mountains, much less of the magnificent 

 antlered creatm-es inhabiting them, but to this scion of 

 his race are opened wider and richer opportunities, and 

 as he shall improve them, and as one trophy after another 

 shall be won by his skill to be taken home to^Spain as tan- 

 gible memorials of the sporting resources of this country, 

 the Duke de Veragua will understand why the sportsmen 

 of the New World rejoice in the best hunting countries, 

 the best game and the best fish on all the round ball. 



"The freedorh of the city" indeed! How paltry a bau- 

 ble is that. Compare with it this freedom which Forest 

 AND Stream extends, the freedom of the game covers and 

 the angling waters of a continent, nor do we speak pre- 

 sumptously, nor without the most deliberate weighing of 

 words when w-e assure the Duke that the freedom shall 

 be the fullest, without reservation or hmitation, save as 

 by our codes of game laws which have somewhat tardily 

 been adopted and are now more or less in force in this 

 Columbian era. He shall have the best there is, even if 

 that best be inclosed within the barbed wu-e con- 

 fines of a game preserve, for what club the 

 most exclusive would not remove its trespass 

 signs in favor of one of the line of the discoverer of the 

 whole continental preserve — and as for those States and 

 counties where no non-resident, not even Christopher 

 Columbus himself, might shoot or fish untagged, even 

 there the Duke de Veragua shall shoot and fish both, if 

 he will, not tagless, indeed, but with every minutest 

 letter of the law duly complied with and the tags furn- 

 ished, if this may be permitted us, by the Forest and 

 Stream, for what is "freedom" if not free, and wdiat is 

 hospitality if stinted. Such at least would not be the 

 hospitality characteristic of the sportsmen of this country 

 nor such their extended freedom of Columbia, misnamed 

 America. 



This distinguished foreigner shaU not be hampered by 

 any of the invidious and vexatious non-resident discrimi- 

 nations, which in certain sections of our great and glori- 

 ous country are enforced against the ordinary everv^-day 

 common American citizen, born under its Stars and 

 Stripes. We shall undertake to see to it that even in 

 Dorchester county, Maryland, the Duke de Veragua shall 

 have the same freedom to shoot partridges that he would 

 enjoy if, in addition to coming of the line of Christopher 

 Columbus, he had mai'ried a Dorchester county girl. The 

 Duke shall have his tag. 



WORTH TRYING. 



THE TROUT OPENING. 

 On Saturday last the legal opening for trout for the 

 State at large took place, and as usual there was a fine 

 show of fish in Fulton Market at Mr. Blackford's and else- 

 where. 



The day before had been one of severe storm, one and a 

 half inches of water having fallen in the twenty-four 

 hours. This was followed by clearing weather and a cold 

 wave, so that it was really much more comfortable in the 

 market looking at Mr. Blackford's slabs and tanks than it 

 was by the brook side. 



Nevertheless, there were not wanting many anglers 

 who wet their lines on the opening day, but most of these 

 found the streams tremendously swollen and heavy with 

 mud and soil, so that the results of their efforts were not 

 large. 



But from now on it is time to go a-fishing. The grip of 

 the frost king is loosened for the year. Now the weather 

 will be growing milder and milder, and 



"On low seas over night the spring comes gently walking." 



From this time on, he who goes afield with his rod will 

 see many things to give him pleasure, whether he returns 

 with ci-eel full or empty. On the hills that bound the 

 valley through which his brook flows are scattered the 

 pink blossoms of the trailing arbutus and the blue ones of 

 the hepatica. In the swamps which he threads as he fol- 

 lows the stream's course are the graceful anemones and 

 the yeUow blooms of the dog tooth violet. From every 

 tree top he hears the mellow song of the building robin, 

 and the twitter of the bluebird as he shifts his light load 

 of song from post to post along the fences. From the 

 willows and alders along stream and pond rise now and 

 then flocks of newly arrived blackbirds whose quaint 

 efforts at song are yet sweet to the ear. 



The perfume of flowers, the smell of the meadows, the 

 fresh, fragrant odors of the woods delight another sense, 

 not less than the flood of warm sunshine in which the 

 angler delights again to bask. 



It has been said a thousand times that it is not all of 

 fishing to fish, and the taking of a few trout is perhaps the ■ 

 least part of the pleasure of that angler who goes afield in 

 the early days of spring, but after all, it is the fish that 

 give him his excuse for his outing and all the delights that 

 come with it, and if it were not for them he would still be 

 sticking to his desk and carrying on his daily work. So 

 it is that we aU. welcome the day of the trout opening, for 

 it gives us an excuse to look again at natui-e awakened 

 anew from her long winter's sleep. 



It appeal's to be pretty clearly demonstrated that the 

 Mongolian pheasant can stand the winters of New England 

 and northern New Y'ork, and that he has nothing to fear 

 from climate on this coast. This has been demonstrated 

 not by a single experiment, but by several. 



It is now well known that the pheasants turned out 

 some years ago at Tuxedo Park did well and scattered 

 themselves over a great range of country in New Jersey 

 and southern New York. They are killed from time to 

 time in Rockland and Sullivan counties, N. Y., and seem 

 in the wild state to be slowly on the increase. Some pheas- 

 ants imported two or three years ago to Flanders, L. I. , by 

 Mr. H. D. Auchincloss, have done well out of doors and 

 are increasing. Last season Mr. W. Austin Wadsworth, 

 of Livingston county, N. Y. , turned out ten birds and they 

 survived the bitter weather of the winter just past. On 

 another page Mr. Wallace, of Connecticut, gives another 

 instance of their hardiness. 



We are familiar with the rapid increase of this beauti- 

 ful species on the West Coast, where all the conditions are 

 in its favor; where climate is milder, food more abundant 

 and easily had, and enemies fewer. But with strict pro- 

 tection a somewhat similar increase might take place in 

 the central West and even on the Atlantic coast. 



Pheasants are great wanderers, and a few turned out at 

 any point will spread themselves over a wide extent of 

 country; they are also great runners and will sometimes 

 refuse to lie to a dog, but at other times they have to be 

 kicked out of the brush just as our own quail and ruffed 

 grouse do. 



We know of no experiments with any exotic game 

 which have proved so promising as those with this pheas- 

 ant, and it would seem worth the while of sportsmen's 

 clubs generally to take the matter of their introduction in 

 hand. The fact that the birds will lay their eggs in con- 

 finement and that the young can be hatched out tmder 

 domestic fowls, greatly simpUfies the experiment. 



THE AUDUBON MONUMENT. 



On Wednesday of next week there wiU be unveiled 

 in Trinitj' Cemetery, this city, a monument which has 

 been erected to the memory of John James Audubon. 

 This unveiling completes the labors of those who for 

 several years have been striving that some appropriate 

 memorial should be raised to the great artist-naturalist, 

 who did more than any other one man to acquaint 

 Americans with the birds of their own country. 



It is more than five years since the preliminary work of 

 the Audubon monument committees began. The project 

 for a monument to the naturalist was a direct growth 

 from tlie founding of the Atidubon Society, which was 

 started by Forest and Stream for the purpose of combat- 

 ing the pernicious fashion of wearing the feathers of 

 native birds as ornaments. Committees were appointed 

 by various scientific societies, among which the New York 

 Academy oi Sciences and the Linnean Society were prom- 

 inent, and a general interest was felt in the subject. It is 

 true that at times the work dragged, but the energy of 

 those who had it in charge never flagged, and their labors 

 are at last crowned with success. 



At the exercises to be held at Trinity Cemetery next 

 Wednesday, Professor Egleston will deliver an address, 

 turning over the monument to the authorities of Trinity 

 Cemetery. At the exercises to be held in the evening at 

 the American Museum of Natural History, in Manhattan 

 Square, an eulogy of the great artist-naturalist will be 

 pronounced by Mr. D. G. Elhot, himself an ornithologist 

 of eminence. 



It is a source of satisfaction to all ornithologists that 

 this monument is at last erected, and that it stands within 

 a short distance of that home where the great naturalist 

 passed the latest and, perhaps, the happiest days of a long 

 and changeful life, surrounded by loving children and 

 grandchfldren, and having for his companion that noble 

 wife to whom so much of his success was due. 



