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FOREST AND STREAM 
April, 1921 
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DOGS 
In transactions between strangers, the 
purchase price in the form of a draft, 
money order or certified check payable to 
the seller should be deposited with some 
disinterested third person or with this of- 
fice with the understanding that it is not 
to be transferred until the dog has been 
received and found to be satisfactory. 
AIREDALES 
LIONHEART AIREDALES — YOU HAVE 
heard of them- — the strain that is making good 
all over this continent. As an advertising special 
we offer two grand young dogs that are great show 
and stud prospects, at about half their worth. 
Lionheart Warrior, aged 14 months, big, good 
all over, sired by Champion Earlwood Warlock 
out of a big winning daughter of Champion 
Illuminator. Untrained, $75. Lionheart Des- 
perado, aged twenty months, correct size, extra 
coat and color, game, sure stud, $50. Wires 
given preference. Lionheart Kennels, Anaconda, 
Montana. 
PEDIGREED AIREDALE PUPS ELIGIBLE 
to A. K. C. registration; males $15; females, $10. 
Al. Aikins, Readstown, Wisconsin. 
WANTED — AIREDALE TERRIERS. 
Grown dogs or puppies. Buckeye Boarding Ken- 
nels, La Rue, Ohio. 
CHESAPEAKE BAY DOGS 
WANTED— TWO THOROUGHLY TRAINED 
Chesapeake Bay dogs. Must be good retrievers. 
They will be used at a shooting club Currituck 
Sound, N. C. Write, giving full description of 
•dogs and prices. C. W. Whittier, 55 Congress 
St., Boston, Mass. 
COLLIES 
WHITE COLLIES, BEAUTIFUL, INTELLI- 
gent, refined and useful; pairs not a kin for sale. 
The Shomont, Monticello, Iowa. 
GUN DOGS 
AT STUD, COON DOGS THAT ARE WATER 
fighters and splendid tree dogs with size and de- 
termination. Fox hound studs that are rapid 
movers and are stayers besides having guts to 
fight. Stag hound studs that are coyote catchers 
and natural born throat fighters and killers. This 
season we have selected 12 choice females for the 
different kinds of game and pups from our mat- 
ings will keep company with any one’s dogs of 
equal age. care and training. Write for mating 
■list. Prairie View Ranch, Yates Center, Kan- 
sas, Box 116. 
NORWEGIAN BEAR DOGS— IRISH WOLF 
Hounds, English Bloodhounds, Russian Wolt 
Hounds, American Fox Hounds, Lion, Cat, Deer, 
Wolf, Coon and Varmint Dogs; fifty-page high- 
ly illustrated catalogue, 10c stamps. Rookwood 
Kennels, Lexington, Kentucky. 
WANTED— POINTERS AND SETTERS TO 
train; also some nice setters for sale and rabbit 
hounds that do the work. Trial given. O. K. 
Kennels, Marydel, Maryland. 
YEAR OLD CH. JOHN PROCTOR BITCH. 
A fine shooting bitch that does it all. Recently 
bred to a son of Broom Hill Dan. Price $300, 
or $250 and one choice dog puppy. 
Her full sister unbred; just as good. Price $250. 
Two year old pointer bitch by Indiana Sancho. 
Proven brood bitch and a finished shooting bitch 
and retriever. Recently bred to son of Ch. 
Comanche Frank. A bargain at $250 or $200 
and one puppy. 
Four year old registered pointer bitch. A gopd 
brood and shooting bitch. Bred to a fine regis- 
tered dog. Price $150 and one puppy. 
Two year old Ch. Eugene M., setter bitch. One 
of our best brood and shooting bitches. Bred to 
a son of Mohawk II. Price $350 or $300 and 
one puppy. 
Two year old pure Llewellin setter bitch by Baron 
Brilliant. A real good one. Bred to Son of 
Momoney, $200 and one choice dog puppy. 
Forty other high class shooting dogs and bitches 
and bitches in whelp. Priced from $150 to $500. 
Write your wants. 
Harmon Somerville, Amite, La. 
PLACES MADE ATTRACTIVE TO WILD- 
fowl and fish. Plans, plants, seeds and expert 
advice furnished. I have successfully served 
individuals, clubs and state game commissions 
all over the U. S. and Canada. Clyde Terrell, 
Dept. H211, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 
NELSON RUSH 
WOOD 
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On another occasion, with a compan- 
ion or two, he visited one of the great 
poultry shows in Washington, where 
some thousand or more fowls — turkeys, 
guinea hens, and other birds were on 
exhibition. As he entered the main 
hall, the guinea fowls were giving vent 
to their usual calls, and in such a vol- 
ume that the crowd was almost ready to 
leave the building, so great was the an- 
noyance, while the exhibitors were in a 
state of despair. As Wood passed near 
the cages, he suddenly imitated some cu- 
rious guinea fowl notes, whereupon every 
bird of that species in the hall at once 
became silent. The people in his imme- 
diate neighborhood were surprised beyond 
measure; but, as Wood was about to 
leave, having seen all he desired, he re- 
marked that it “is not good for guinea 
fowls to remain silent so long,” where- 
upon he gave two or three other and 
quite different calls of those birds, when 
the entire collection broke forth in the 
same deafening manner as when he had 
checked them. At this point he and his 
friends leisurely left the hall. 
W OOD was a constant visitor at the 
National Zoological Park, where 
he studied the notes and pictures 
of a large number of foreign birds, 
while he studied our native species in 
the nearby woods and open country. If 
he desired to observe different attitudes 
of birds in nature when they were 
swayed by various emotions, all he had 
to do was to quietly take a seat some- 
where in the woods, when birds were 
either breeding or migrating, and imi- 
tate any one of their various calls. 
With the greatest perfection he imi- 
tated the notes of distress, of a bird in 
pain, in the talons of a hawk or owl — 
when all the birds within hearing were 
about him in a moment, giving him the 
very opportunity he desired of studying 
their notes and attitudes. All this ex- 
perience and first-hand information he 
carried to his work-table, and it mani- 
fested itself in bird after bird as he 
preserved and mounted them for the 
exhibition cases of the National Mu- 
seum, in which there are now hundreds 
to be studied and admired. 
I have known, in my time, some of the 
most distinguished avian taxidermists 
that this country has produced, such as 
John G. Bell and several of his most 
capable students, and not a few others; 
yet I am free to say that America has 
never had an artist in this line that 
could in any way equal Mr. Wood in 
mounting the gallinaceous fowls and 
pigeons. In 1894, when I published my 
“Scientific Taxidermy for Museums” — a 
Smithsonian Report with over eighty 
full-page plates — I devoted a number of 
plates to Mr. Wood’s work, and they 
stand in evidence of the statement made 
above. I watched him more than half 
the entire time he was remodeling and 
remounting the specimen of the Great 
Auk — that rara avis of the world’s mu- 
seums — as indeed I watched him hun- 
dreds of times while he was engaged 
upon his work, and I never tired of the 
experience. Many of the negatives in 
my private collection are of his mounted 
birds, and a large number of these — or 
prints from them — have been published 
by me in this country and abroad. 
Mr. Wood collected and introduced 
into this country many rare foreign 
fowls, and bred not a few valuable 
species, such as the Jungle Fowls of 
India and others The so-called “eclipse- 
plumages” of ducks greatly interested 
him, and he contributed not a little to 
our knowledge of those remarkable and 
curious plumage changes. On his 
tramps through Florida he was a close 
observer of living forms of all descrip- 
tions in their natural environment, and 
on not a few occasions he furnished zo- 
ologists with most remarkable notes on 
the life-habits of the batrachians and 
reptiles of that part of the country. On 
one trip he captured specimens of a 
small lizard — one of the Swifts. When 
these were forwarded to the National 
Museum Dr. Leonard Stejneger, Chief 
of the Reptile Department, found that 
the species was new to science, and so 
named it Wood’s Swift ( Sceloporus 
woodi). Several living specimens of this 
swift were also sent to me at the same 
time, and I succeeded in obtaining life- 
size negatives of them in many poses. 
I T is worthy of record to note Mr. 
Wood’s skill in restoring old bird- 
skins — either before or after they 
were mounted. This was a most valua- 
ble accomplishment, as frequently some 
of the rarest and most valuable bird- 
skins in the Museum’s vast collection 
were on the high-road to the waste- 
cans when he got hold of them; it was 
wonderful to see his restorations. 
NEW RIG FOR A 
CREEL 
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When walking to and from the river, 
I detach the waist strap entirely, and, 
using the full length of the shoulder 
straps, strap the basket on my shoul- 
ders, knapsack style. 
This is done as follows: Detach the 
strap at one end of the basket, length- 
en as far as you can; bring it up and 
over the shoulder then down and under 
the arm and across the back under the 
basket, then forward under the arm and 
over the other shoulder, and buckle it 
to the basket again. Try it; you will 
find it a great comfort if you have some 
miles to walk with a creel full of fish. 
When the basket is in position for 
fishing, the webbing part lies over the 
left shoulder, and in the lower end I 
have a small pocket in which I carry 
my fly-oil. Just below this is the buckle 
to which I hook my landing net; this is 
made from a small piece of leather, 
with a strong snapper on it, just as you 
will find on men’s suspenders, where the 
brace joins the strap on the trousers. 
The oil bottle carried here is easily 
reached, but out of the way. When 
using basket as a knapsack remove the 
oil bottle and place in the basket. 
A. J. Maudslay, New York. 
identify you. 
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