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IRSFLE SHOOTING. 
A Complete If iNtory of tho Internntlonal 
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Regulation* of the N. R. A. 
Etc., Etc. 
Publications. 
Sportsman s Gazetteer 
AND 
CENERAL CUIDE, 
By CHARLES UAL LOCK, 
Editor “ Forest and Stream and Itod and Gan." 
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BT TUB 
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Wallace’s Adirondack Guide, 
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Camp Life in Florida, 
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A completo Dictionary ; for Sportsmen. Every- 
body wauts It that has a dog, gun or Ashing rod. 
A completo description of all kinds of Game, Fish 
tie. Field Sports, Woodcraft, Angling, Fly ’King’ 
Dogs, Dog Breeding, Diseases and Treatment, Boat- 
ing and Boat-building. 
Several thousand localities where game and flsh 
are to be found. 
Nothing of the kind ever before published worth 
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PUBLISHED BY 
FOREST & STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Ill Fulton street. Now York. 
Sportsmen's Routes. 
FOR FLORIDA 
I^OR THROUGH TICKETS TO FERNANDINA 
*- JACKSONVILLE, ST. AUGUSTINE, SAN- 
FORD, ENTERPRISE, and Intermediate landings 
on ST. JOnN’8 RIVER and Interior points ln 
FLORIDA, by steamship to SAVANNAH, and thence 
by railroad or steamboat, apply to WM. L. JAMES, 
General Agent. 
Philadelphia ana Southern Mail S. S. Co., 
Pier 23 South Delaware Avenue, Phlla. 
Decl4-ly 
Sportsmen's ponies. 
REDUCTION OF FARE. 
$3 NEW YORK TO BOSTON 
VIA THE 
Fall River Line 
To Boston and Return, $6. 
Magnificent Steamers NEWPORT and OLD COL- 
ONY leave New York daily (Sundays excepted) at 
4:.J0 r. m. This Is the only Sound Line giving pass- 
engers a FULL NIGHT’S ltfiSl'. Passengers take 
any one of the FIVE MORNING TRAINS from Fall 
River to Boston. 
BORDEN A LOVELL, OEO L. CONNOR, 
Agents. General Pass Agent. 
FRANK SOMILBY’S 
AMERICAN 
“The Bermudas.” 
N °^ A FAV0RITE AND DELIGHTFUL 
WINTER RESORT, Is reached ln seventy 
hoars from New York, and being surrounded by the 
warm waters of the Gulf Stream enjoys au equable 
temperature of about 70 deg. 4 
• The elegant British Steamships “ Bermuda,” and 
Oamlna, 1,000 tons, fitted expressly for the passen- 
ger trave, are dispatched from New York for Ber- 
2uK^.J ortQ gh i y ’ „ raakl,1 g connection at Bermuda 
wlth steamers for St. Thomas and West Indies. For 
* Jii. 2”£ atlon apply to A. E. OUTER BRIDGE, 
Agent. 29 Broadway. N. Y. Dec 21 ly. 
Partridge & Pheasant Shooting- 
Describing the Haunts, Habits, and Methods of 
Hunting and Shootlngthe Americas Partridge-Quail; 
ltuued Grouse — Pheasants, with directions lor hand- 
ling the cun, hunting the dog, and t-hootlng on the 
wlog. 1 rice, $ 2 . Liberal disoount to the trade. 
To be had at book stores generally. Address, 
Frank Schley, 
°°U 1 Frederick City, Md. 
The Southern Guide. 
A Dnely Illustrated quarterly periodical, exhibiting 
the characteristics uud resources of the Southern 
States, one dollar per year ; single copies, 35 oents. 
Published by 
BRAMHALL & CO., Washington, D. C. 
Deed 3m 
St. Paul and St, Louis 
Short Line. 
Burlington, C. Rapids & N’rth’rn 
QUICKEST, CHEAPEST AND BEST! 
TWO PASSENGER TRAINS EACH WAY DAILY 
crossing and connecting with all East ami Wesf 
Lines in Iowa, running through somo of the finest 
nunting grounds In the Northwest for Geese, Ducks, 
aEKa%x‘sw“ p s! i r ^ Gene ™ 1 
* aSSauLvr. 
P OULTRY WORLD —A splendidly Illustrated 
monthly, $1,26 a yeur. Send 10 cts for a speci- 
men copy. Address POULTRY WORLD. Hartford, 
Conn Decs lyr Ex 
•Veto Edition, with 100 additional birds. 
W 0 L 8 Q) N * § 
American Ornithology ; 
Oil, 
Natural History of theBirds of the United States 
With the continuation by Fbince Onanus Ldcibn 
BonapauTK. Now and enlarged edition, completed 
by the lutenlon of above ono hundred birds omitted 
tu the original work, and Illustrated by valuable 
Doles and a life of the author by sir William Jar- 
dine. Three volumes Svo, with a Portait of Wilson, 
and 103 plates, exhibiting nearly four hundred 
figures of birds, accurately cDgraved and beautifully 
colored, doth extra, $18. Half smooth morocco, gilt 
tops, $ 20 . Hnlf morocco, extra, gilt tops, $26. Full 
tree calf extra, gilt or marbied edges, $30. 
J ' ' v - BOUTON, 700 Broadway, N.Y. 
J&U31 4t 
Old Dominion Line. 
The steamers of this Line reach some of the finest 
Waterfowl and upland shooting sections ln the coun- 
try. Connections direct for Chlncoteague, Cobb’s 
Island, and points on the Peninsula, city Point, 
James' River, Currituck, Florida, and the mountain- 
ous country of Virginia, Tennessee, etc. Norfolk 
steamer* sail Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday; 
Delaware, Monday and Thursday at 8 r. m. Full .n- 
matlon given at office, m Greenwich 8t„ New 
York. .seoSSly 
N EW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA NEW LINE 
BOUND BROOK ROUTE, 
FOR TRENTON AND PHILADELPHIA. 
COMMENCING NOVEMBER * 6 , 1877. 
STATION IN NEW YORK— Foot of Liberty st. N. R. 
Leave New York for Trenton and Philadelphia at 
6:30, 8, 0:80, 11:30 A. M., 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 12 p. u., uud 
at 4 p. m. for Trenton. 
Leavo Philadelphia from station North Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad, Third and Berks streets, at 12:05 
7:30, 9:30 11:30 a. m., 1:30, 3:30, 6:30 p. »t. 
Leavo Trenton for New York at 1:30 (except Mon- 
day), 6:36, 8:05, 10:20 A. M., 12:16, 2:16, 4:10, C: 15 P. M. 
Pullman Drawing Room Cars are attached to the 
9:30 a. M., 3:30, P. M. train* from New York and to 
the 7:30, a. m., 1:30 p. m. trains from Philadelphia 
Sunday Trains— Leave New York and Phila- 
delphia at 9:80 a. m., 6:30, 12 p. m. Leave Trenton for 
Now York at 1:20, 10:20 a. M.. 6:10 p. m. 
Tickets for tale at foot of Liberty street, Nos 6 2* 1 
and 914 Broadway, at the principal hotels, all oi))c*> 
of the Erie Railway Id New York and Brooklyn, ant* 
at No. 4 Court street, Brooklyn. Baggag i checied 
from residence to destination. 
8eptl8 ly H. P. BALDWIN, Gen. Pass. Agent 
GREAT SOUTHERN 
Freight & Pass’ngerLine, 
YIA 
Charleston S. C r 
The South and the Southwest 
AND THE 
FLOREDA PORTS, 
Wednesday and Saturday 
At 8 o’clock P. M. From Pier 
27, N. R. 
CITY OF ATLANTA, CHARLESTON, 
Capt. M. S. Woodholl. Capt. U. W. Lockwood. 
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, G. W. CLYDE, 
Capt. S. Crowell. Capt. Ingraham. 
The above steamers have been haudsomely fitted 
up for the convenience of passengers, and are un- 
rivalled on the coast for 
Safety, Speed and Comfort. 
Close Connections at Charleston with the favorite 
and well-known Florida packets, DICTATOR, Capt 
Vogel; CITY POINT, Capt. Scott, for FERNAN- 
DINA, JACKSONVILLE, ST. AUGUSTINE, PA- 
LATKA, ENTERPRISE, MELONVILLE and all 
points In Florida. 
EXCURSION TICKETS AT REDUCED RATES. 
$y Insurance to destination ONE-HALF OF ONE 
PER CENT. 
Goods forwarded free of Commission. Passage 
tickets and Bills of Lading Issued and signed at the 
office of JAMES W. QUINTARD & CO., Agents, 
Pier 27, N. R. , foot Park Place. Office on Die 
wharf. 
W. P. CLYDE & CO., No. 6 Bowling Green. 
Through Freight Tariffs, Passage Tickets by all 
routes and to all points In the South and Southwest, 
and further information can bo obtained at the office 
°* BENTLEY D. HASELL, General Agent, 
Great Southern Freight Line, 317 Broadway, 
corner of Tbomos street. Octll 3m 
TO SPORTSMEN: 
THE PENNSYLVANIA RK. OO. 
Respectfully Invite attention to the 
affordea by their lines for reaching moat of the 
TROTTING PARKS and RACE COURSES ln the 
Middle States. These Does being CONTINUOUS 
FROM ALL IMPORTANT POINTS, avoid tho diffi- 
culties and dangers of reshlpment, while tho excel- 
lent cars which run over the smooth steel tracks en- 
able STOCK TO BE TRANSPORTED without failure 
or injury. 
The lines of 
PcnDsylvanl Railroad Company 
also reach the best localities for 
GUNNING AND FISHING 
In Pennsylvania and New Jersey. EXCURSION 
TICKETS are sold at the offices of the Company ln 
all the principle cities to KANE, RENOVA, BED- 
FORD, CRESSON, RALSTON, MLNNEQUA, and 
other well-known centers for 
Trout .Fishing. Wing Shooting, and Still 
Hunting. 
Also, to 
TUCKERTON, BEACH nAVEN. CAPE MAY. 
SQUAN. and points on the NEW JERSEY COAST 
renowned for SALT WATER SPORT AFTER FIN 
AND FEATHER. 
L. P. FARMER, Gen’l Pass. Agent, 
Frank Thomson. Gen'l Manager. feblT-tf 
Sportsmen s goutes. 
ST. AUCUSTINE, FLA., NAS- 
SAU, N. P., HAVANA, CUBA. 
From Savannah, Ga., to Nassau, N. P„ and na- 
vituu, Cuba, via St. Augustine, Fia., steamship Nan 
Jacinto will sail Jan. 29, Feb. 12 aud 28, and every 
a i ornate Tuesday. Connecting steamers leave New 
York oil Jan k 26, Feb. 9 aud 23? 
FOR NASSAU DIRECT, 
g S^S, < SM& SSffi mV,; 
For all particulars, Illustrated guide, Ac., apply to 
MURRAY, FERRIS & CO., 
No. 62 South St. 
N EW HAVEN. HARTFORD, SPRINGFIELD, 
AND THE NORTH. 
The arat-class steamer ELM CITY leaves Plot 25 
East River, dally (Sundays excepted) at 3 r. m. p**! 
sengers to North and Boat at 12 r. u 
NIGHT LINK-The CONTINENTAL leaves New 
York at 11 p. m., arriving In Now Haven In time t.* 
the early morning trains- 
Morctiandlic forwarded by dally express freight 
train from New Haven through io Massachusetts. 
Vermont. Western New Hampshire, Northern Now 
York aud Canada. Frolgbt received until 6 p. m. 
RICHARD PECK, Genoral Agent 
Wild Fowl Shooting. 
SPRINGVILLE MOUSE OR SPORTSMEN’S RE- 
TREAT, SU1NNECOCK BAY, L. I„ 
By a practical guuDer and an old bayman. Haa 
always on hand t lie best of boats, batteries, etc., 
with the largest rig of trained wild-geese decoys on 
the const. Special attention given by himself io his 
rnesta. aud satisfaction guaranteed. Address WM. 
N. LANE, Good Ground, L. I. Nov8 tf 
HUNTING 
FOR DEER, BEAR, PARTRIDGES, DUCKS, ' 
Tako the Grand Rapids aod Indiana Railroad. 
FISHING 
FOR PIKE, PICKEREL, BASS, Etc , 
Follow tho G. R. and I.— The “ Fishing ” Lino 
Tlmo, New York to Grand Itnplds, 37 boor* 
EXPENSES LOW. 
Shooting season expires December 16. For infor- 
mation us to routes, ratio and hest points for the 
various kinds of game, etc. Apply to 
A B. LEET, Gen. Pass Agent, 
A. noPPE, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
Eastern Agent, 116 Market 8t„ Phlla., Ta. 
Nov 22 tf 
CTONTNGTON LINE, 
U FOR BOSTON AND ALL POINTS EABT. 
REDUCED FARE: 
Elegant Steamers STONINOTON and NARRA- 
GANSETT leave Pier 33 North River, foot Jay St. 
at 6:<io P.M. NOT A TRIP MISSED IN SEVEN 
YEARS. 
Tickets for *alo at all principal ticket offices. Stato 
rooms secured at ofilcea of Westoott Exprean Com- 
Dany. and at 363 Broadway, New York, and 333 Wash2 
figton St., Brooklyn. 
PROVIDENCE LINE. 
Freight only, steamers leavo Pier 37, Nbrth River, 
foot Park Place, at 4:30 P. M. Freights via olther 
lino taken at lowest rates. 
L. W. FILKINS, G. P. Agent, D. 8. BABCOCK, Pres. 
Sportsmen’s (goods. 
,.Ronan’s*Metal Shell Cleaner. 
Cleans fifty sheila In ten mlnntes. No water used 
Knives elastic, self-adjusting, prevent the slipping 
of wads. Is unequalled aa a breech wiper by cover- 
ing with an oiled cloth. For sale by all gun dealers, 
or sample sent free by mall on icoefpt of pi Ice, $i,bh; 
10 and 13 bore. J. F. RON AN, 788 Suawrout avenue 
Boston, Maas. Liberal discount to the trade) 
Nov« 
ONLY DIRECT 
FLORIDA LINE. 
For Fernnndlnn, Fin., Port Royal, N, C*., and 
Brunswick, Ga. 
Sailing every FRIDAY from Pier 20, E. R., at 3 p. m, 
Close connection made nt each port with all rail- 
roads for the Interior, aud ut Feroandlna with the 
steamer Carrie (which tins been refurnished), for 
Jacksonville and Ihe St. John's River. 
For through rates of freight and passage to ai 
point? in the South and Southwcrf, apply to 
G. H. MALLORY & CO., Agents, 163 Malden Lane, 
Nov29 4m NEW YORK. 
H. L. LEONARD. 
Manufacturer of every variety of 
FINE RODS for SALMON, BASS and TROUT 
FISHING. 
Split Bamboo Rods a Specialty 
Every Rod bearlDg my name Is six strands from 
butt to extreme tip, and mountcu with my •• patent 
waterproof ferrule,” and warranted against Imper- 
fections ln material and workmanship. 
Any style of finish, hexagonal or round, as may 
bo desired. Rods of Greenheart, Asb, or Lance- 
wood, MADE TO ORDER. 
I was awarded a MEDAL and DIPLOMA at tho 
Centennial for my Spilt Bamboo Rods. 
MANUFACTORY, BANGOR, MAINE. 
A variety of my rods mny bo found nt 
No. 19 BEAVER ST., 
Now York City (Up Mnlro). 
B OATS I ROATS 1 BOATS .'-The lightest and 
most durable l>oat In tho world. Weight, 25 
lbs. and upward, built or white cedar. H. N. 
Sl’RAO UK, Manufacturer, Parlshvllle, St. LAwrence 
County, N.Y. Jaut7 3iu 
C. M. BRENNAN. 
OLD KENTUCKY BOURBON * MONONGAHELA 
South Clark Street, Chicago. 
T7 1 | ITAO Retail price $900 only $260. Parlor 
r I A N I ).N Organs, price $340 only $96. Paper 
, A tiee • Dan’l F.Beattv, Wash- 
ington, N J Decso 
