Forest and Stream 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 189 7. 
1 VOL. XLVIX— No. 2. 
( No. 346 Beoadwax, New "Yoek. 
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Sir Henry Wotton — a man with whom I have 
often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign 
employments in the service of this nation, and 
whose experience, learning', wit, and cheerfulness, 
made his company to be esteemed one of the de- 
lights of mankind ; this man, whose very appro- 
bation of angling were sufficient to convince any 
modest censurer of it, this man was also a most 
dear lover and a frequent practiser of the art of 
angling; of which he would say: '*^Twas an em- 
ployment for his idle time, which was then not 
idly spent ; for angling was, after tedious study, a 
rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter 
of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a mod- 
erator of passions, a procurer of contentedness^; 
and ** that it begat habits of peace and patience in 
those that professed and practised it/^ Indeed, my 
friend, you will find angling to be like the virtue 
of humility, which has a calmness of spirit, and a 
world of other blessings attending upon it* Sir, 
this was the saying of that learned man, 
Walton. 
AUDUBON BIRD PLATES. 
Tn our present issue is given the sixth of the series of 
half-tone reproductions of Audubon's famous bird portraits, 
from the rare first edition. It is of the Redhead Duck, 
The list of plates already printed and to come includes: 
The Black Duck, Sept. 26, 1896. 
The Pbairie Chicken, Oct. 24. 
TuE Oanvasback Duck, Nov. 21. 
The Wjllow Ptarmigan, Dec. 19. 
The American Golden Plover, Feb. ''27, 1897. 
The Redhead Duck, July 10. 
The Shoveller Duck. 
The Purple Sandpiper. 
OOVEJENMENT GAME EESTORATIOK 
Congressman John F. Lacev, of Iowa, has introduced in 
the House of Representatives a bill, H. R. 3589, to extend 
the powers and duties of the United States Commission of 
Pish and Fisheries to include game birds and other wild 
birds useful to man. The text of the measure is as fol- 
lows: 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Howe of Represenfyitives of the 
Un ited States of America in Congress assembled, That the United 
States Commission of Fish and Fisheries shall hereafter be known 
and designated as the United States Commission of Fish, Fisheries 
and Birds. The duties and powers of said Commission are hereby en- 
larged so as to include the propagation, distribution, transportation, 
introduction and restoration of game birds and other wild birds use- 
ful to man. For such purposes they may purchase, or cause to be 
captured, such game birds and other wild birds as they may require 
therefor, subject, however, to the laws of the various States and Ter- 
ritories in which they may conduct such operations. 
The object and purpose of this act is to aid in the restoration of such 
birds in those parts of the United States adapted thereto, where the 
same have become scarce or extinct, and also to aid in the introduc- 
tion of new and valuable varieties or species of American or foreign 
birds in locaUties where they have not heretofore existed. 
Said Commission shall from time to time collect and publish 
U'^eful information as to the propagation, uses and preservation of 
such birds. 
And the said Commission shall make and publish all needful rules 
and regulations for carrying out the purposes of this act. and shall 
expend for said purposes such sums as Congress may appropriate 
therefor. 
This proposition submitted to the National Government 
is in line with the development of game protection and 
game restoration in this country as conducted by the 
several States, and it is only one more step in advance. A 
long time was required for the individual States, one after 
ginother, to learn that game protection was one of the pub- 
lic interests with which the oflicial machinery of adminis- 
tration might concern itself. First came the enactment of 
laws for the protection of game, but when these had been 
given a place on the statute books, the State fplded jts 
arms in complacent consciousness of having done its whole 
duty. Then followed an awakening to the realization of 
the hard facts of the matter, that there is nothing 
automatic in the nature of working of a game law^ 
that it will not enforce itself, but to be of any account 
must be enforced by those whose business it is to 
put it into action; and that there must be wardens. 
The second step was the provision of a State game protec- 
tive force. This system, which is now so common, was an 
altogether novel idea within the last quarter of a century. 
With its adoption came the enlargement of the scope of 
responsibility of State fish commissioners. They were 
now entrusted with the duty of protecting game, as well 
as of breeding fish; and finally in some States appropria 
tions have been made to supply the fish and game com. 
missions with means to import and propagate game birds, 
just as they have introduced and bred fish. Thus in Ohio , 
Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and elsewhere, the 
commissions have imported Mongolian pheasants, caper, 
calzie and other species. As to the State commissions, it 
may how be said that the propriety and public advantage 
of their activity in the field of game replenishment has 
fixed recognition. 
The individual States having thus come to devoting 
their funds to the propagation of game, it was to be ex- 
pected that the National Government should be called 
upon for a like enlargement of the duties of the National 
Fish Commission. If it is expedient for that Commission 
to concern itself with the distribution of trout and black 
bass and other fish to the public waters of the several 
States, logic would seem to show that no less is it ex- 
pedient for the Government to distribute to the depleted 
game covers of the country the new or old species of game 
with which these may restocked. If it is desirable to in- 
troduce into this country foreign game birds, experiments 
in this direction would be more likely to succeed, if under- 
taken on a scale within the means of the Government than 
if they were left to the puny efibrts of individuals or asso- 
ciations. 
Those who have followed the very interesting plan 
developed by Mr. W. G. Van Name for the establishment 
of Government game preserves in the several States, will 
recognize that the measure of Mr. Lacey is directly in 
keeping with the proposed reserve system; for if the Gov- 
ernment is to propagate game and restock game covers, it 
will be necessary for it to establish game breeding stations 
similar to the fish breeding stations which it has acquired 
in various localities. To secure possession of desirable 
tracts iof territory, and to preserve them rigorously as 
breeding grounds, would be carrying out in effect the pro- 
visions of this measure; and if the work of the Commis- 
sion should go no further than this, even then, for the 
considerations which have been so well pointed out by 
Mr. Van Name, its game breeding work would be of un- 
told value and profit to the country at large. 
SNAP SHOTS. 
In many of the States of the South there is a well- 
defined prejudice against camping parties of hunters from 
abroad. In numerous sections where no other general re- 
strictions are enforced relative to the taking of game, 
stringent laws forbid camp-hunting by non-residents. 
These regulations have an extremely ungracious air, and 
appear sadly to belie that all pervading Southern hospital- 
ity so characteristic of this country. They are abundantly 
justified, however, by the circumstances which have driven 
the residents to such recourse. The discrimination is not 
aimed against sportsmen, but against the market-hunters, 
who have so generally and so disastrously invaded the 
game districts of the South and the Southwest. They 
camp in a favorable locality, hunt assiduously, shipping 
their game to St. Louis and other great markets, and re- 
main on the land so long as sufficient game is left to make 
their stay worth while. The county non-resident laws 
have been adopted as supplying th* only system of relief 
for sections so imposed upon. In Arkansas a law was 
enacted at the last session, relative to Lafayette, Miller 
and Desha counties, which forbids camp hunting under 
heavy penalties, and makes the mere art of camping in the 
woods with dogs and guns sufficient evidence to convict. 
to camp as long as he pleases and to hunt to his heart's 
content, provided only that he will take the precaution to 
introduce himself to some responsible citizen of the coun- 
try and assure him of his purpose of hunting for sport only. 
Under these circumstances he will be looked upon as that 
citizen's guest, and so the guest of the country so far as 
hunting privileges are concerned; and thus he will make 
renewed proof of Arkansas hospitality, where hospitality is 
deserved and not abused. 
Our reference last week to the farmers of Long Island 
and Vermont, who complain of the depredations of deer 
upon their crops, may be supplemented with wails of like 
tenor from West Virginia. John Crook, of Middle Bridge, 
has made complaint to the authorities of that county about 
the deer and wild turkeys destroying his crops. He says 
that if the authorities will not take steps to prevent them 
from trespassing on his property he will have to kill them 
in self-defense, in spite of the law to the contrary. Other 
farmers have declared their intention to make similar 
complaints. They say the ravages of the deer and turkeys 
are as bad as the army worm. The correspondent who 
sends us this note says that he has known Mr. Crook from 
boyhood, and he can vouch for his truthfulness and trust' 
worthiness. The good things of life are unequally dis^ 
tributed when amid all the cries of game scarcity are 
voiced the woes of those who are thus over, 
supplied. Deer hunters who would like to com- 
bine philanthropy and fun should make a note of Mr 
Crook's plight, and go to the succor when the open season 
races around. 
OJSr BOSTON STREETS. 
A LARGE opportunity presents itself to the patriot of Bos- 
ton who has the pluck and spunk so improve it; and there 
is a monument in store for him on the Common along with 
those of other public t)'enefactors, if only he shall perform 
the service of the hour. The Great and General Court of 
the Commonwealth has decreed that whoever has in his 
possession the body or feathers of any protected bird, or 
. wears such feathers for the purpose of dress or ornament, 
shall be punished by a fine of |10. That means that 
woman must stop wearing birds' feathers on her hat; and 
the public-spirited ornithologist who shall take up his 
station on Washington street of an afternoon to note the 
bird-bedecked headgear as it passes in review, and to halt, 
detain, 'arrest and mulct the bearers of tabooed bedizenment 
is the citizen for whom his fellows are to erect the monu- 
ment. 
That the harvest is ripe for the sickle, or that the game 
supply ii abundant, may be deduced from the list of native 
birds observed in a similar situation by a New York orni- 
thologist. Some time ago Mr. Frank M. Chapman, of the 
American Museum of Natural History, sent to the Forest 
AND Stream a list of native birds which he had seen on 
the heads of ladies in New York streets during two late 
afternoon walks: 
Robins, 4. 
Brown thrush, 1. 
Bluebirds, 3. 
Blackburnian warbler, 1. 
Blackpoll warblers, 3. 
Wilson's 
black-capped flycatchers, 8. 
Scarlet tanagers, 3. 
White-bellied swallow, 1. 
Bohemian waxwing, 1. 
Waxwings, 33. 
Great northern shrike, 1. 
Pine grosbeak, 1. 
Snow buntings, 15. 
Tree sparrows, 2. 
White-throated sparrow, 1. 
Bobolink, 1. 
Meadow-larks, 2. 
Baltimore orioles, 9. 
Purple grackles, 5. 
Swallow-tailed flycatcher, li 
Kingbird, 1. 
Kingfisher, 1. 
Pileated woodpecker, 1. 
Red-headed woodpeckers, 3. 
Golden-winged woodpeckers, 21. 
i^cadian owl, 1. 
Carohna dove, 1. 
Ruffed grouse, 3. 
Pinnated grouse, 1. 
Quail, 16. 
Helmet quail , 2. 
Sanderlings, 5, 
Big yellowlegs, 1. 
Green heron, 1, 
Virginia rail, 1, 
Laughing gull, 1. 
Common terns, 31. 
Black tern, 1. 
Grebes, 7, 
In spirit and intent such regulations are designed only 
to prevent market hunting; they have their origin in no 
antipathy to outsiders. The non-resident sportsman, 
going individually or in a party, will find perfect freedom 
Bluejays, 5. 
Not all of these come under the Massachusetts law, but 
most of them are included. We shall watch with much gen- 
uine interest to note the actual working of the new statute; 
and to determine whether this placing of songbird-feather 
hat adornments under the ban of the law will eflfect what 
appeals to sentiment and sense have failed to accomplish. 
A bill similar in provision was passed by the late session 
of the New York Legislature, but failed of the Governor's 
signature, for the reason, as given out by his private secre- 
tary, that the measure was not approved by the Coron»i^- 
sioners of Fisheries, Game and Foregt, 
