FOREST AND STREAM. 
(Oct. 26, 1901. 
always takes some fishing friend — never but one at a time 
—and fortunate is the fisherman who gets the advantage 
of Mr. Rein's experience. Special. 
A. B. F. Kinney, the first Worcester sportsman to re- 
turn home from the big-game regions of Maine since the 
opening of the hunting season, traveled with Mrs. Kinney 
through the Megantic Preserve, so arranging liis trip as 
to reach Moosehead Lalte in time to have a week of trout 
fishing before the law went on trout and off deer. "I 
never had any finer fly-fishing in my life," declared Mr. 
Kinney, enthusiastically to a Telegram reporter, "than I ' 
found in the Roach River at Moosehead. I never fish 
with anything but flies, and found the sport superb. I 
took out as many trout as I could use, without the slight- 
est difficulty, and landed an exceptionally big one on Mon- 
day morning, Sept. 30, the last day of the trout season. 
"The next morning I went out in search, not of trout, 
but of deer, and had been gone only a little while when I 
saw exactly the kind of a deer that I wanted to bring 
home. This was, the only deer I attempted to shoot, for I 
wanted to bring home only one, and the deer that first 
came within my range was in every way sati.sfactory. 
Some of the sportsmen at the hotel shot several during 
the time I was there, and what deer they did not care 
for themselves were used as venison at the hotel, where 
there were nearly twenty-five guests all the time. 
"The day I shot my deer I also saw within 100 yards of 
me a handsome bull moose, but I didn't shoot it for two 
reasons. In the first place the law does not go off moose 
until the I5ih of this month, two weeks later than the 
law is off deer, and then, too, I have shot all the moose I 
care to, and am perfectly willing to leave what moose I 
see for other sportsmen who may have been less fortu- 
nate, I have four beautiful heads at my home, and believe 
1 have done my share of moose shooting, 
"From the observations I made in the Megantic re- 
gion and at Moosehead, I am confident in saying that there 
is going to be no lack of deer this season. Deer are not on 
the decrease, as is occasionally asserted. As for moose, 
they are far more numerous than I ever saw them be- 
fore in Maine. Everj'where there were signs of the pres- 
ence of moose, and it was a daily occurrence to see from 
the veranda of the hotel where we stayed one or two 
moose, and sometimes more. 
"I was especially interested to note the ]arge_ number 
of women who are rapidly becoming enthusiastic Maine 
woods huntsmen, or more properly speaking, huntswomen. 
At Roach River there were ten or twelve women who had 
their own guides, and tramped about the woods, showing 
no more signs of fatigue than the men, and getting exactly 
as much genu'ne enjoyment from shooting and hunting as 
their husbands. Where ten or fifteen years ago one 
woman went into the woods in search of pleasure, there 
are now fifteen or twenty. Big-game hunting for women 
appears to be rapidly becoming a fad. 
I met while away two of the best women shots I 
have ever seen. They were Mrs. Courtney, of Boston, 
and Miss Trafk, a friend. Miss Trask is a particularly 
fine shot, and brought down on the opening day of the 
sea=on a nice buck. She is equally enthusiastic over par- 
tr-dge shooting, and Monday morning, as I was coming 
out from the woods on a buckboard. I saw her make a 
double with all the skill of an expert trap shooter," 
the torrential storms of June and July kill the first or 
second broods? 
A full-grown this year's partridge (ruffed grouse) blew 
against a window at the back of my house yesterday and 
killed himself. The accident occurred at 6:30 o'clock on 
a dark and misty morning. The house stands far from 
the swamps, on a knoll, and the bird seems to have flown 
from a small clump of cedar trees back of the mansion. 
Morton Grinnell. 
Massachusetts Qttail. 
Salem, Mass., Oct. 10.— The quail season opened Octi. 
While they are more plentiful than usual, owing partly to 
the very little snow last winter, they are very small. I 
found four bevies one day, three of which could just take 
wing; one bevy could not have been hatched over three 
or four days, as they were about the size of bumble bees. 
In fact, I have found but one bevy fit to shoot since Oct. 
I. From Nov. i to Dec. 15 would be about early and 
long enough season for quail. W. 
In North Carolina. 
Kinston, N. C, Oct. 20.— Our season on quail opens on 
the 1st proximo, and I don't see how our gunners are to 
find their sport so soon. There are many birds, but 
every covey I have seen contains young ones hardly able 
to fly. I saw two old birds last Sunday, with a brood 
apparently but just out of the shell. They made no at- 
tempt to fly. Tar Heel. 
la New Jersey. 
Bayville, N. J., Oct. 20.— There are lots of quail, but 
many young birds that will be too small to shoot Nov. i. 
I saw nine bunches yesterday; three of them could just 
fly. The ducks are coming and a few geese, which are 
very late. I struck a few jacksnipe yesterday— the first 
I have seen tliis fall. Herb. 
Late Broods of Quail. 
Seattle, Wash., Oct. is.-^Editw Forest and Stream: 
Your issue of Oct. 5. to hand this morning, contains an 
account of a late brood of quail found "by a Connecticut 
correspondent. "That reminds mc." Last summer while 
walk'ng in the neighborhood of City Park, within our 
city limits, my dog pointed a quail sitting on her nest, 
which was built on the ground in low brush. I was 
greatly interested, and with members of my family visited 
the little mother quite frequently. She would remain on 
the nesl if not too closely approached. 
Just before hatch'ng, the nest contained eighteen eggs, 
but one morning I found the mother and her brood gone 
and two eggs left. 
Shortly afterward T met with the family again in the 
neighborhood of their birthplace, and was surprised to 
find the covey contained two white birds. One is ap- 
parently pure white; the other shows small, brown points 
on the wing, and tail feathers. Curiosity has prompted 
me to pay them a weekly visit, and almost invariably I 
find then on the same clearing. I have some recollection 
of reading in your paper many years ago an account of an 
albino quail by a Southern correspondent, and would like 
to know if such are of frequent occurrence. I have 
thought some of trying to trap this pair; shoot them I 
couldn't. 
Last Sunday afternoon (Oct. 13) I went out to see how 
they were getting along — they are located about ten min- 
utes' walk from my home. My dog, who knows them 
about as well as I do, came to a stand in front of a 
srhall huckleberry bush. Walking up to him I saw an- 
other brood of little ones, not over a week old, and alto- 
gether too small to fly, scurrying away in all directions 
from the opposite side. The old brood was found some 
distance further, and the two white ones are still flourish- 
ing, but they will not He to the dog any more. I have 
disturbed them so often they fly to cover at his approach. 
These are what we call out here valley or swamp quail 
and are mighty, cunning, swift, little chaps. 
Quail have been protected in this State for five years, 
and both species, m.ountain and valley, are very plentiful. 
It was generally understood among sportsmen that this 
fall was to be open on those birds, but the Daniels who 
sit in our legislative halls and frame the game laws 
omitted quail entirely, and no one, not even our game 
wardens, seems to know just how the law stands. After 
seeing these little chicks on Sunday I am of the opinion 
that the New York law would be about right for this 
State. Broadway. 
Late Nesting QoaJl. 
MiLFORD, Conn.. Oct. 14.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
A friend of mine found yesterday a quail nest of twelve 
eggs, with the hen bird setting. How do you account for 
this, and the fact that most of the bevies found so far are 
but one-quarter grown, and many unable yet to fly? Did 
turkeys and a nice string of quail have been handed in to 
me, tne result of a hunt within a few miles of this place. 
Deer are also quite numerous, and afford rare sport in 
hunting them. W. D. Paxton. 
New Brunswick Moose. 
Perth Centre, lij. B., Oct. 19. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: I think we can get any sportsman a moose here 
as quickly as any place in New Brunswick and without a 
doubt. I think I have my camps in the best moose country 
in New Brunswick; the quickest and easiest to get to. 
We have up to date got eleven moose and two caribou 
and one bear. Our largest moose had a spread of 60 
inches, with thirty-four points and 16-inch blades. There 
have been, as near as we can tell now, sixty-five moose 
heads taken from the Tobique region up to now this fall. 
This has been a poor fall for moose hunting up to this 
time. Geo. E. Armstrong. 
Sunday Shooting: Trains in Rhode Island. 
Providence, R. I., Oct. ^.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
The Evening Telegram of to-day says, editorially: 
"A gentleman called at the editorial rooms of the Tele- 
gram this morning and voiced a protest against the action 
of the Providence & Danielson Railway Company m ad- 
vertising to rim a "special hunting car with dogs" on Sun- 
day, and asked if this was to be permitted. This is a 
matter that interests many others. Railroads are not 
always respecters of the laws unless they are made to 
respect them, and if public opinion is against hunting on 
Sunday, hunting On Sunday can be made to cease. Hunters 
are in a minority, whatever day they may hunt. More- 
over, the law, as we understand it, is against them when 
they hunt on Sunday, as well as against the railroad that 
■would aid and abet them in lawbreaking. Section 3, 
Chapter 110, of the General Laws of Rhode Island, reads: 
Every person, not being at the time under military duty, who 
shall discharge any rifle, gun, musket, blunderbuss, fo\vling;piece, 
pistol air-gun, spring-g\in, or other smaVI arms, or any contrivance 
arranged to discharge shot, bullets, arrows, darts or other missiles, 
except upon land owned or occupied by him or by permi.ssion ot 
the owner or occupant of the land on or into which he rnay 
shoot within the comp^act part of any town or city, or not being 
at the time on military duty, shall anywhere discharge any of such 
arm.s or contrivances on Sunday, shall be fined not exceedmg 
twenty dollars. 
"Evidently it must be a still-hunt or be performed under 
military duty or the hunters will each have 'not exceeding 
twenty dollars' to pay provided any one makes the proper 
complaint to the proper authorities." 
Last Monday morning in the District Court at Bristol, 
before Judge Bosworth, Gienuto Giniueto was tried on 
the criminal charge of violating the game laws in killing 
a quail during the close season. He was fined $20 and 
costs, which aggregated $24.20. 
Tautog fishing in the deep channels at the south ends 
of Prudence and Hog islands, in Narragansett Bay, is 
improving every week, and several very large catches 
were reported last week. W. H. M. 
Minnesota Licenses. 
The statement in the Game Laws in Brief respecting 
Minnesota non-resident shooting licenses may not be 
sufficiently explicit. License requirements arc of two 
kinds. . , 
First— A license ffee $25) is required of all non-resj- 
dents for shooting deer, elk, caribou or moose. This 
license is required whether the visiting sportsman comes 
from a State which has a non-resident license law or not. 
This is the license noted on page 52 of the Brief. 
> Second— A license to shoot any kind of game, large 
or small (fee $25). is required of non-residents coming 
from States which have a non-resident shooting license 
provision in their laws. 
Residents of Ohio, for instance, which State does not 
demand a license of non-residents, may shoot birds in 
Minnesota without a license, but must take out a license 
for deer shooting. A resident of West Virginia, which 
State has a non-resident license law, must take out a 
license for shooting any kind of game in Minnesota. 
One license covers all game. That is to say, a non-resi- 
dent need not take out one license for .shooting deer and 
another license for shooting birds. 
Vifgfinia Game Fields* 
Chase City, Va.. Oct. ig.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
While busy at my desk answering many questions from 
sportsmen in various parts of the country, it occurred to 
me that I might do this more effectually through the 
columns of your paper, and that in doing so I would reach 
a larger number of inquirers. The season for quail and 
ttirkey shooting has only been open since Oct. 15. Con- 
sequejitlv but little hunting has been done, just about 
enough to demonstrate the fact that the crop of game is 
an unusually good one in this section. I have reported to 
me anywhere from ten to twenty coveys of quail found in 
the course of a day's hunt. These coveys are of good 
size, ranging from fifteen to twenty or more- in each. 
The best time for hunting, however-, will be on and 
after the first of November, as so many of the birds are 
but little more than half-grown at this time. Since I 
began this letter, within the last ten minutes, two wild 
Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in Forest and Stream. 
The Mediterranean Tunny. 
From the Nineteenth Century. 
The Mediterranean tunny is a classic and important 
fish. Like many other important fish, however, his hab- 
its and his life history are but little known. In this he 
much resembles the salmon, though the great attention 
which has of late years been bestowed upon the salmon 
has in its case given us a store of information which is 
at present lacking in the case of the tunny. The tunny is, 
at any rate, a fish of noble proportions. The most valua- 
ble of the mackerel tribe, to which the bonito and the alba- 
core also belong, he frequently attains the weight of 1,000 
pounds, many of this weight being caught in the fixed 
nets off the ^fCgadian Islands; while Cetti, the natural 
historian of Sardinia, mentions a specimen caught on that 
coast which weighed 1,800 pounds, and I saw one cap- 
tiired this year which weighed 500 pounds less. In Sar- 
dinia they classify the tunny according to weight; a tunny 
of less than too pounds is a scampirre; a tunny from 100 
pounds to 300 poui\ds is a mezzotunno, and a tunno 
properly so-called is a fish that weighs over 300 pounds. 
The natural history of the tunny has from the earliest 
times been a subject of much dispute. Aristotle, in his 
His tury cf Animals, devotes some space to it, and seems 
to have been the earliest writer to attempt any scientific 
description of it. The range of the tunny is a very wide 
one; Dr. Gtinther, a high authority on the subject, dis- 
tributes him from the south coasts of England to the 
shores of Tasmania. His food consists of herring and 
pilchard, and other small fish, on which he thrives and 
grows with amazing rapidity. Cuvier records that at 
his first appearance on the Mediterranean coasts after the 
hatching season his weight is two ounces, which he 
doubles in a fo-tnight, and at two months old he weighs 
two pounds, and continues to put on weight with a cor- 
responding rapidity, till, in some instances, he reaches 
the great size of 1,800 pounds, recorded by Cetti. 
The industry of catching tunnies is a very ancient, as 
well as lucrative, one. Allusions to it run through the 
classics. Two hundred and twenty-eight years before the 
Christian era A.then3;us took the trouble to prove that a 
brother scribe had made a mistake in attributing a pane- 
gyric of the tunny to Hesiod, and modern scholars have 
agreed that the first authentic classic reference to the 
tunny is by Herodotus, That the capture of the tunny 
was a familiar feature in the daily life of these times is 
proved by the story related by Herodotus, who tells us 
how Pisistratus, returning to Greece after his second ex- 
pulsion, pitched his camp opposite to that of his adver- 
saries, near the temple of Pallas, at Pallene. Here a 
soothsayer, Amphilytus by name, moved by a divine im- 
pulse, approached him and uttered this prophecy: 
"Now the cast has been made, the net is outspread in the water, 
Through the moonshiny night, the tunnies will enter the meshes," 
Pisistratus grasped the meaning at once, accepted the 
oracle, fell upon the Athenians, defeated them, and re- 
turned to power, ^schylus, also, in the Persae, makes 
the messenger describing the battle of Salamis say 
"And they, as men spear tunnies, or a haul 
Of other fishes, with the shaft of oars 
Or spars of wrecks went smiting, cleaving down," 
The tunny has been the theme of historians, of poets, 
and of naturalists, almost since history in Europe began; 
and from Herodotus downward the ancients have sung 
his praises, dedicated him to their duties, stamped hi.s 
effigy on their medals, and used the methods of his cap- 
ture to point their illustrations. 
The chief tunny fisheries of the ancients were carried 
on at the eastern and western extremities of the Mediter 
r:iiiean, and in narrow waters, where migrating fish were 
obliged to concentrate. The Black Sea was certainly a 
iavorite breeding-ground, perhaps, as Cuvier opines, be 
cause of the great rivers which flow into it, Pliny con- 
firms Aristotle in this particular, and mentions the huge 
shoals of tunnies which made their appearance in the 
early summer in these waters. But there is much his- 
torical allusion to other great fisheries in the western 
portions of the Mediterranean, and even in the Atlantic. 
The Phoenicians certainly established tunny fisheries, both 
on the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts, of Spain, and 
have left effigies of the fish on their medals of Cadiz and 
Carteia. -^■"lianiis writes of the fisheries carried on by 
the Gauls at Marseilles, where the tunny was caught 
"with great hooks of steel" — that is. gaffed and dragged 
on shore when netted, as he is at the present day. The 
Sardinian fisheries were especially celebrated in Roman 
times; the Roman epicures, indeed, esteerned the Sar- 
dinian fish above those of the Bosphorus, and Salsamen- 
tum Sardinicum was the Roman name for the preserved 
article. The Spanish salted timny was also famous, and 
connoisseurs professed to detect in it a peculiar nutty 
