January, 1921 
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Vol. XCI. CONTENTS FOR JANUARY, 1921 No. 1 
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Old Albert of Chemung I The Ins and Outs of Ice Fishing. 17 
By Charles Meakins By A. B. Gilbert 
1 Editorial Comment 18 
The Sea Otter and Land Otter... 8 
By Agnes Laut Finding Fishes on the Beach.... 2i> 
By John T. Nichols ^ . 
The Bow as a Hunter's Weapon.. 10 Nessmuk's Camp Fire 22 
By Van Allen Lyman 
Letters, Questions and Answers. . 24 
m _ _ , T Forgotten Islands of Georgia.... 20 
The Game Ranges of Nipigon.... 12 _ 
By P. C. Space 
By W. C. Millar 
Mulligan Ambrosia 2s 
By Joseph W. Stray 
Doctor Henshall on the Nile... 14 
„ , r , r , ^ Plants as Guides 32 
Twenty-first Paper 
By Albert A. Hansen 
Fishing the Mikado’s Streams.... 10 Dogs 40 
By Shegetaro Morikubo When Buffalo Ran 47 
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OUTDOOR 
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carries a special appeal to the sports- 
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9 East Fortieth Street, New York City 
BOOKS ON FISH AND FISHING 
ANGLERS’ WORKSHOP. By Perry D. Frazer 
A practical manual for all those who want to 
make their own rod and fittings. It contains 
a review of fishing rod history, a discussion of 
materials, a list of the tools needed, description 
of the method to be followed in making al 
kinds of rods, including fly-casting, bait fishing 
salmon, etc., with full instructions for winding 
varnishing, etc. Illustrated. $2.00. 
BOOK OF THE BLACK BASS. By James A. 
Henshall. This edition of the Book of the 
Black Bass includes also the Supplement, More 
About the Black Bass, and is complete in one 
volume. It covers the entire scientific and life 
history of this species, and contains a practical 
treatise on angling and fly-fishing with a full 
account of tools, implements, and tackle. $3.00. 
CASTING TACKLE AND METHODS. By 0. W. 
Smith, fishing editor of Outdoor Life, and 
author of “Trout Lore.” The author has en- 
deavored to embody not only the accumulated 
wisdom of forty years of angling, but also to 
draw upon the experience of well-known ang- 
ling experts. He has sought to impart just the 
information which his correspondents have been 
seeking. Elaborately illustrated. .Colored cover 
jacket. Large 12mo. Silk cloth. $3.00 
THE CALL OF THE SURF. By Van Campen 
Heilner and Frank Stick. If you arc a surf 
angler, here is the book you have long been 
waiting for. There are chapters dealing with 
Beach Camping — Tackle and Equipment — Off- 
shore Fishing for Tuna and Bluefish — Shark 
Fishing — Channel Bass and Striped Bass Fish- 
ing — Surf Fishing on the Pacific Coast — and 
many others. The authors are too well known 
in the sporting world to need any introduction. 
It is illustrated with remarkable photograpns 
and paintings by Mr. Stick, the well known 
artist and collaborating author. Single copies 
$3.00. 
FISH CULTURE, By Wm. E. Meehan. This 
splendid work of fish culture covers in a most 
comprehensive manner the hatching and breed- 
ing of bass, cat-fish, carp, trout, perch, pickerel, 
muscallonge, etc. It includes special chapters 
on frog culture, care of gold fish and aquar- 
iums. The author was formerly Fish Com- 
missioner of Pennsylvania, and it is conceded 
by experts that in this book Mr. Meehan has 
produced a most valuable document. $2.00. 
FISHING TACKLE AND KITS. By Dixie Car- 
rol. How, when and where to fish, and the 
right kind of tackle for all angles of fishing 
for the fresh-water game fish. Habits and pe- 
culiarities of the basses, muskellonge, trout, 
pike, pickerel, and wall-eyed pike. Fishing facts 
that will make the tyro an expert angler and 
the expert more finished in the art. Things 
worth knowing about tackle, kits and equip- 
ment secured from actual tests and investiga- 
tions. Many illustrations from photographs. 
Colored cover jacket. Large 12mo. $3.00. 
GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF FISHES (2 vols.). 
By David Starr Jordan. Recognized the 
world over as a most comprehensive and 
authoritative treatment of the subject. This 
great work, published in two cloth bound vol- 
umes of more than 600 pages each, contains 
hundreds of illustrations and is invaluable to 
anyone interested in fish or fishing. It de- 
scribes the different species of fish in a man- 
ner that enables you to identify them. It tells 
of their life and habits: how, when and where 
different species are caught. . . . How fish 
breathe, smell, taste and talk. It treats on 
migratory fish, colors of fish, food value of fish, 
the mythology of fishes; mermaid, monkfish, 
bishop-fish, sea-serpents, etc. Its description of 
popular fishes includes trout, flounder, catfish, 
perch, bass, swordfish, eel, galing, blackfish, 
sand-darter, mullet, mackerel, herring, king- 
fisli, halibut and other species; pond-skippers, 
cave-fish, file-fish, tiigger-fish. headlight-fish, 
trunk-fish and other species of freak fish too 
numerous to mention are fully described. 
Packed ready for shipment these two volumes 
weigh ten pounds. Price, delivered to any ad- 
dress in the United States, $12.00. Canadian 
orders subject to extra shipping charge and 
custom fee. 
THE GAME FISHES OF THE WORLD. By 
Charles Frederick Holder, LL.D. This vol- 
ume is designed to provide a well illustrated 
condensed account of the principal game fishes 
of the world. Large 8vo. Elaborately illus- 
trated. Handsomely bound. $5.00. 
GOIN’ FISHIN’. By Dixie Carroll. Author of 
“Fishing Tackle and Kits,” “Lake and Stream 
Game Fishing’’: editor of The National Sports- 
man, Chicago Evening News, etc. Introduc- 
tion by Major-General Leonard Wood. A new 
book for the every now-and-then fisherman as 
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