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yond. The next spring a lumberman found a skeleton, 
which may have been the same, in that vicinity. The 
horns, measuring over 60 inches, were sold in Boiestown. 
Things began to look gloomy, but bad luck was not 
always with us. When returning to camp one day, and 
within a mile of it, a monarch of the forest presented 
himself broadside, the .40-70 cracked once, this time to 
some purpose, and Harry at last had that long-coveted 
"first -moose." Both shoulders were broken; the moose 
never moved from his tracks, but pitched over a fallen 
tree, driving one prong into it so deeply that it had to 
be cut out. Back to camp they came, very jubilant, and 
we all turned out to watch the skinning process. These 
horns were almost perfect, and spread 52 inches. The 
meat, however, was found to be absolutely impossible to 
average teeth, and we still subsisted on pork and bacon, 
varied by occasional partridges. Unfortunately at this 
time, friend Fess wrenched his knee, which kept him in 
comparative proximity to camp, but luckily, during our 
last week he contrived to supply us with caribou meat, 
most of which we shipped home. 
During the latter part of the trip we had a very heavy 
fall of snow, and the lakes could be crossed on the ice. 
Every fresh snowfall received the imprint of numerous 
feet. " In the forest, Carson is a second Sherlock Holmes- 
nothing escapes his notice, it is all an open book to him. 
A moose stalked up the trail within a hundred feet 
of our camp one night, and his track, in turn, was 
crossed by that of an enormous bear. Everywhere, 
crossed and recrossed, were the tracks of the smaller 
life of the forest, but so wary are they, that without such 
evidence, the woods seem deserted by all life, except the 
ever-present noisy red squirrel and the warning bluejay. 
Sit down to rest for five minutes and Mr. Squirrel chal- 
lenges you on one side, while the Canada jay, popularly 
called moose bird, waits expectantly on the other; you 
may be going to lunch and leave a few crumbs. This 
bird is the camp scavenger, but withal a very sleek and 
pretty bird to look at. I was very much averse to ^ seeing 
them killed and could not understand our guide's ani- 
mosity to them until he explained that during the spring 
trapping, these birds follow and steal the bait, ^usually 
springing the traps. * t 
The bluejay seems to be appointed by the forest people 
to the position of "town crier." He always keeps the 
hunter in sight and sounds his shrill note of warning; 
possibly when no foreign element intrudes, he screams in 
bird language, "All's well." 
I succeeded in taming one little squirrel so that he 
became quite familiar, much to the cook's disgust, for 
biscuits disappeared off the table if one's back was turned 
for a moment. Those biscuits speak wonders for a squir- 
rel's digestion. 
Our guide, William Carson, has been a woodsman and 
trapper from his earliest recollections, and is without 
doubt the most interesting story teller in his way that I 
have ever met. Give him a pipe and a bright camp-fire, 
and our Chauncey would have to look to his laurels as a 
raconteur. Some winters ago, he, with Hale, our copk, 
succeeded in killing a moose in deep snow by lashing 
their jackknives to long poles and repeatedly prodding 
him with these tiny but effectual weapons. Another 
winter, Carson on snowshoes, tried to kill a moose by 
hamstringing him with his ax, but the moose, being hard 
pressed, turned and charged him, and Carson tripped and 
fell. Luckily, in falling, he swung his ax upward, catch- 
ing the enraged moose fairly across the windpipe. The 
dying moose fell directly upon him, burying him in the 
snow, and had to be pried off with poles before our nim- 
rod of the ax could be rescued from suffocation. From 
him I first heard the tale of the "Dungarvon Whooper," 
and have since read with much pleasure Maximilian 
Foster's "In the Forest," in which he ably relates this 
story. Nearly every lumberman claims to have either 
seen or heard this strange beast. It is always large and 
yellow, with a tail which varies in length from three to 
seven feet, according to the strength of the imagination. 
Some of these men are timid about going out alone after 
dark. It is surprising how much superstition still clings 
to these children of nature. Everywhere one hears tales 
of the supernatural ; no deep questions of astronomy 
cause a ripple on their minds. Carson, particularly, ob- 
jects to a spherical world, where part of the time he 
hangs off head downward into space. A flat earth suits 
him, round which the sun travels and reappears at the 
appointed time next morning. 
The next October (1900) Harry and I alone composed 
the party, with Carson as guide, and Hale as cook. For 
the first week we never stirred from camp, and were 
lucky to have reached it at all. One of the biggest rains 
that region ever knew happened along just then, and 
every tiny brook turned to an angry river. The Canadian 
Pacific, to say nothing of the little Canada Eastern, was 
decidedly "out of business," and for several days Fred- 
ericton could only be reached by boat on the St. Johns 
River. Finally, when the weather permitted, we moved 
to a lean-to, about a mile off the trail, and put up a tent 
for a store room, but when one bitter cold morning I 
found a blanket of about two inches of snow covering 
me, I rebelled, and we moved back to our old camp 
again. 
This year fortune favored, and the .40-70 added to its 
laurels once more. Again only one shot > on the ridge 
south of Salmon Brook Lake, and this time a 56-inch 
spread of horns was secured. This animal was enor- 
mous, moreover, he had seen many battles; one eye was 
missing; an ear torn to ribbons, and numerous festering 
wounds told of recent trials of strength. 
Soon afterward Carson and Harry started on a cruise 
northward to locate a site for a new permanent camp 
for the following year, and were gone three days and 
three nights. During this time Hale and I visited the 
lake every evening just at sundown, and I blazed away 
at the enormous flocks of ducks and geese as they came 
over, but not always successfully by any means. Carson 
and Harry selected a spot for a camp near Rocky Brook, 
and about twenty miles further into the moose country. 
On their return we immediately packed up and left camp 
for home. All streams crossing the trail were swollen, 
and here I had my first experience in tight-rope walking 
of a sort, when with long pole in hand I succeeded in 
keeping my balance on a small tree felled across the 
stream for a bridge. It is needless to say that I breathed 
y, sigh of relief on the home Side every time, A dip in, 3 
New Brunswick stream late in the autumn is not to be 
desired. 
This year's moose head, together with 'go's, created so 
much enthusiasm among friends that the Rocky Brook 
Hunting Club was formed; each of the four members 
contributed his quota, and a cozy cabin was erected the 
following summer on the site which Harry and Carson 
had selected. 
Mrs. Henry Perrine Walker. 
Nbw York, March 5. 
[TO BE CONTINUED.] 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Queer Bags by Sportsmen. 
Chicago, 111., April 26. — At Roselawn, Ind., one day 
this week, Mr. Hess O'Brien, of Chicago, while hunting 
ducks near the Kankakee River, saw a big bald-headed 
eagle rise close before him in the timber, and was able 
to wing-tip it with his first shot. The bird was not 
killed, nor did it succumb until after the sixth shot from 
the duck gun loaded with No. 6 shot, the shots fired at 
short range. It was a very large specimen, in good plum- 
age, though probably a last year's bird. It measured 82 
inches from tip to tip of its wings. 
Frank Griffin, of Fox Lake, Wis., was lucky enough 
to get a wild goose this week, alive, and without his 
firing a shot at it. It was a cripple, and had been shot 
through the body with a rifle ball. There has been more 
or less rifle shooting at geese in that part of the country 
this spring, and D. J. Hotchkiss thinks this might be 
his goose, because he shot one with his Mauser rifle a 
day or so before and did not stop it within bounds. Two 
other shooters of that vicinity got three geese between 
them last Saturday. 
End of Snipe Season, 
Our Illinois snipe season ended yesterday, much to the 
disappointment of the knowing ones. The second flight 
of snipe is now in in big numbers, and the best shooting 
of the spring would be possible right now. On Thurs- 
day I was called down into Indiana on a business trip, 
and though I did not have any opportunity to hunt, I 
passed the best of the Kankakee marshes. I have never 
seen more snipe Working there on any one day than I 
saw in crossing the marsh below Lowell. The air was 
full of little wisps of jacks, and there was a mile and a 
half of grass snipe in the air at once, put up by the rail- 
way train. 
The shooting had at Maksawba by the few members 
who took out licenses was very good. A report comes 
that one member killed 67, another 62, on last Monday, 
and the same chronicler goes on to say that Mel Fancher, 
a well-known pusher of that locality, brought up to Chi- 
cago and sold this week $48 worth of jack snipe, getting 
over $3 a dozen for them. Of course, this was in viola- 
tion of the Indiana export law, but that does not cut 
much figure. There is no doubt that both the duck and 
the snipe flight have been extraordinarily heavy this 
spring. 
Hartford Building, Chicago, 111. 
E. Hough. 
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Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them m Forest and Stsxaii. 
United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, 
Washington, D. C, April 23. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have just noticed in your issue of" last week the com- 
munication by Mr. Carleton, of Cocoanut Grove, Fla., re- 
garding the bonefish and the lady-fish. Great confusion 
seems to exist in the minds of many anglers as to the 
identity of these two fishes, and Mr. Carleton has in- 
creased the muddle. 
We may assume, in the first place, that the fish which 
Mr. Hunter caught were what Mr. Carleton knows as the 
bonefish, for that is what he calls them. In the second 
place, we may assume that the photograph illustrating Mr. 
Carleton's article is a photograph of the three fish caught 
by Mr. Hunter, and which Mr. Carleton says were bone- 
fish. Mr. Carleton will doubtless permit us to say, also, 
that he knows a bonefish when he sees it, and that the 
fish he has pictured are the bonefish of Biscayne Bay and 
elsewhere on the Florida coast. 
Now, the only question remaining to be settled is this : 
What is the bonefish? Evidently it is Albula vulpes. Mr. 
Carleton's photograph shows three examples of Albula 
vulpes. Let Mr. Carleton compare his photograph with 
the two illustrations on the opposite page of the same issue 
of Forest and Stream, which are correctly labeled, and 
he will see that his agree with the one labeled Albula 
vulpes. 
In a book on "Where, When and How to Catch Fish on 
the East Coast of Florida," recently published, the author 
makes an effort to reduce the confusion in the use of the 
names "bonefish" and "lady fish," but hardly succeeds. 
This author (Mr. Wm. H. Gregg) reached the erroneous 
conclusion that the illustrations of Albula vulpes and 
Elops saurus in Jordan and Evermann's "Fishes of North 
and Middle America" were inadvertently transposed ; and 
in using the same cuts in his book on "East Coast of 
Florida," he makes the transposition, but explains that 
he forgot to transpose the descriptions, and asks the 
reader to do so. Now, the facts are these : These two 
fishes are correctly labeled in Jordan and Evermann's 
work, while Mr. Gregg has them worse mixed in his 
mind than in his book. The only change necessary in his 
book is a transposition of the scientific names. 
My own experience with the vernacular names of these 
two fishes among fishermen and anglers on the Florida 
coast shows that some agree with Mr. Carleton in calling 
Albula vulpes the bonefish, while others apply the same 
name' to Elops saurus. And the same is true as to the 
use of lady-fish and bony-fish. Each species has many 
vernacular names, some of which are applied indiscrimi- 
nately to both species. It would greatly simplify matters 
if the name bonefish were retained for Albula vulpes and 
let Elops saurus be called ten-pounder. Or, still better, 
call one albula and the other elops. 
Elops saurus is the "first cousin of the tarpon," as Mr. 
Carleton very properly says, and not the species he figures. 
And speaking of the tarpon, permit me to call attention 
to another curious misconception under which Mr. Gregg 
labors. On page 31 of his book on Florida fishes he says 
that "Jordan and Evermann are the first authorities to 
report two species of the tarpon," and then gives "Tarpon 
atlanticus" and "Grand ecaille" as their scientific names. 
Mr. Gregg simply mistook our "Grande ecaille" (the 
common French name of the tarpon) for a scientific name. 
A very ludicrous and scarcely excusable mistake. Mr. 
Gregg's book shows evidence of hurried and careless 
preparation. 
Barton W. Evermann, 
Ichthyologist of the U S. Fish Commission. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Twenty years ago I called the attention of Northern 
anglers to the lady fish and bonefish, or ten-pounder, of 
Florida, as game fishes of high degree. I used the term 
"animated silver shuttle" to describe their antics when 
hooked, and accorded equal praise to both species as to 
gamencss. I have never been able to convince myself as 
to which is entitled to the palm ; but they are both good 
enough, and comparisons are odious. 
I am glad to see, from the communications of Mr. Henry 
Guy Carleton, that the bonefish, or ten-pounder, is now 
coming to the front as a game fish in Florida. But 
there seems to be some confusion of identification as be- 
tween the bonefish and the lady fish. This is easily ac- 
counted for, inasmuch as that they are usually of about 
the same size, .and have very much the same general ap- 
pearance in form and bright silvery coloration ; and more- 
over, there is a confusion attending their vernacular 
names, as the lady fish is also known as bony fish. If 
the figures of the two species, as given in your issue of 
April 19, are carefully studied, there need be no difficulty 
in the proper identification of the two fishes. 
It will be observed that the lady fish {Albula vulpes) 
has an overhanging, pig-like snout, and larger scales, 
while in the bonefish (Elops saurus) the scales are 
smaller, and the mouth is terminal, or the jaws about 
equal, with a wedge-like sharpness. Moreover, the bone- 
fish, or the ten-pounder, as I prefer to call it, has, like the 
tarpon, a bony gular plate under the lower jaw, which is 
absent in the lady fish. 
While the two fishes are both allied to the herring 
tribe, they belong to different families, though the young 
of both species undergo a metamorphosis, or pass through 
a larval stage, in which they appear as ribbon-shaped and 
transparent bodies, totally unlike their parents. 
Both the bonefish and the lady fish are cosmopolitan, 
inhabiting the warm seas of both hemispheres. They 
have both been known to science for a century and a 
half, and have been described by many naturalists from 
different parts of the world. The current specific names 
were both bestowed by Linnaeus. Catesby, in 1737, called 
the lady fish of the Bahamas "bonefish," -while Captain 
William Dampier, one of the early explorers, called the 
bonefish of the Bahamas "ten-pounder," so it will be seen 
that the confusion of common names goes "way back," 
and continues to be so "set down" in our own day. 
James A. Henshall. 
Bozeman, Mont. 
Rangeley and Other Waters* 
Boston, April 26. — The ice went out of the Rangeleys 
Friday, seven days earlier than last year, and five days 
earlier than the earliest previous record — April 30. The 
record of the clearing of the Rangeley system for the past 
twenty-one years, from the files of the Forest and 
Stream, will be of interest to sportsmen who frequent 
those waters. In 1881 the ice was all out May 12; 1882, 
May 12; 1883, May 14; 1884, May 13; 1885, May 15; 1886, 
May 3; 1887, May 15; l i888, May 21 ; 1889, April 30; 1890, 
May 9; 1801. May 10; 1892, May 4; 1893, May 20; 1894, 
May 2; 1895, May 7; 1896, May 9; 1897, May 12; 1898, 
May-i; 1899, May 9; 1900, May 12; 1901, May 2; 1902, as 
above. The gateway to the Rangeley waters is now open, 
but fishing must not begin till May I, since the fish laws 
say that the open season in Oxford and Franklin coun- 
ties does not begin till that date, though in all the other 
counties of the State it is legal to fish as soon as the 
ice is out, with the possible exception of certain streams 
and waters specially protected. Boston rod and reel 
sportsmen are some of them ready, although the early 
opening of the season takes most of them by surprise, or 
at least not fully prepared. Capt. Fred C. Barker, of 
Bemis and the Birches, writes that he has several parties 
of sportsmen booked for April 30, and more for the first 
days of May. 
Salmon and trout fishing is good at New Found Lake, 
N. H. T. H. McDonald, of Lowell, and Mrs. McDonald, 
returned yesterday from their annual fishing trip to that 
lake. They caught six salmon and four trout. Mrs. 
McDonald was high line, as usual. She caught the biggest 
salmon — 8^4 pounds. The fish gave her great play, re- 
quiring thirty-five minutes of skillful managing to bring 
him to the net. 
At Winnipesaukee the fishing is very good indeed. At 
Hobbs-is-Inn, Wolfboro, the catch has been a big one the 
past week. One angler has taken salmon up to 10 and II 
pounds, while another salmon weighing 145/3 pounds has 
fallen to the lot of a Boston angler. Another angler had 
taken sixty trout up to Thursday, the string weighing 
over 200 pounds. A gentleman came into Dame, Stoddard 
& Co.'s store Tuesday with a lake trout weighing/ 15 
pounds, fresh from Winnipesaukee. He had also taken 
several smaller fish. In the windows of the same store 
Mr. Henry C. Litchfield had two trout on exhibition — 
brook trout from Belgrade Lakes, Me. They weighed 
3^ and 4 pounds. It is remarkable that the Belgrade sys- 
tem of lakes is really becoming noted for brook trout. A 
few years ago, and before restocking these lakes with 
bass, trout and landlocked salmon, no trout were being 
taken, though the same waters were well supplied with 
brook trout originally — natural trout waters, in fact. But 
pickerel had destroyed them. Under the new system of 
stocking and protection the trout are coming back. Gen. 
Payidson lia,s just reported in Boston the taking of 9 
