1875 
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ALBERT G. KUGK 
[Successor to N. J. PLUMB,] 
2Vo. 32 JPark Row, 
Opposite New Postofficc. NEW YORK. 
IMPORTER 07 
Needles and Fisli-llooh, 
AND DEALER IN ALL KINDS 07 
Fishing Tackle, Gr^ns, Revolvers, 
Skates and Sporting Goods. 
W7 S. BARltfUM^ 
SYRACUSE, N. Y 
Dealer In all kinds of Sportsmen’s goods. 
Guns, Revolvers, Fishing Tackle, Base 
Ball Supplies, &c.. 
Also all kinds of ammunition of the very beet ouality. 
Aluzzle-Loadiiig Guns altered to Breech- 
Loading a specialty. 
Clark 4 S>T;irEB, 
214 West Pratt street, Baltimore, Maryland. 
Gunpowder ! 
ORANGE SPORTING POWDER. 
Orange Lightning Powder. 
Best Powder made. Nos. 1 to 7. Packed only in sealed one pound 
canisteaS. 
Care must be taken to use no finer size than No. 5 in metal 
shells, or fine breech loading guns, as it is too quick for the strength 
of either 
Orange Dacking Powder. 
For water fowl. Very strong and clean. Nos. 1 to 5. Packed in 
metal kegs of 6 14 Ibe., and canisters of 5 and 1 lb. 
Auduhon Powder. 
Very quick, for woodcock and other shooting from mnzzle load- 
ing guns. Noe. 1 to 4. Packed in metal kegs of 12 1-2 and 6 1-4 lbs. 
and canisters of 1 lb. 
Orange Rifle Poivder. 
The best for rifles, and good for all ordinary purposes. Sizes, FG, 
FFG, FFPG. Packed in wood and metal kegs of 25, 12 1-2, and 6 1-1 
tbs., and canisters of 1 lb. and 1-2 lb. 
All the above brands give high velocities and less residuum than 
any other powder. 
LAFLIN & RAND POWDER CO. 
21 Park Row, (opposite Astor House) New York. 
C. J. MAYNARD & €0., 
DEALERS IN SPECIMENS OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
We have just received a fresh supply of BIRD SKINS and EGG^ 
as well as other objects of Natural History, from Florida and elst 
where. Collectors will do well to send for our skin catalogue and 
make a selection at once, so as to secure the best of the lot. 
MOUNTED GAME BIRDS A SPECIALTY, 
WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY FOR SALE. 
nCTURES OF GAME BIRDS AND MAMMALS. 
. SOMETHING NEW, 
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The ROD AND THE GUN is the contirtuaOon of the AMERICAN 
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and Fishing Fraternity, and has double the circu- 
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It reaches first-class people and is a 
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Nothing will ever be permitted to enter its columns of a low or 
vitiating tendency. Its articles arc designed to elevate and re- 
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the pursuits of cultivated gentlemen. The object of ihe paper s 
to spread a general and useful knowledge on all practical points 
relating to the Kennel and Field Management of Dogs, duns and 
Gunnery, Fish Breeding, and Natural History. The eminent, 
names in our list of contributors furnish a guarantee that our sev- 
eral departments will be kept up to a stuudaid of excellence not to 
be surpassed in any journal. * 
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dents and Adventures, and to the articles of our largeand uuequaled 
corps of contributors. 
It is with no small pride that we are enabled te quote the names 
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proval of our coarse, and announce a continuance of their very val- 
uable cooperation. 
PHOF, S. F. BAIRD. 
Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. 
Washington, D. C. 
PROF. THEO. GILL. 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 
PROF. O. C. MARSH. 
Yale College, New Haven. 
HON. J. D. CATON, L. L. D. 
Late Chief Justice of Illinois. 
Ottawa ill. 
DR. ELLIOTT COLES, U. S. A. 
Surgeon and Naturalist to Northern Boundary Survey. 
Washington, D. C. 
DR. H. C. YARROW. 
Surgeon and Naturalist to the United States Exploring Expedition. 
Washington, D. C. 
MR. ROBERT RIDGWAY. 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C 
DR. .1. B. HOLDER. 
Curator, American Museum, Central Park, New York. 
MR. C. J. MAYNARD. 
Ipswich, Mass. 
MR. W. A. CONKLIN, 
Snperintendant Menagerie, Central Park, New York 
SETH GREEN, ESQ., 
Rochester, N. Y. 
A. S. COLLINS, ESQ., 
Caledonia, N. Y. 
REV. LIVINGSTON STONE 
Charlestown. N. H. 
FRED MATHER, 
Honeoyc Falls, N.Y. 
TIIADDEUS NORRIS, 
Philadelphia, Penn. 
DR. JARED P. KIRTLAND, L.L.D. 
\ East Brocknort Ohio. 
DR. 1. I. HAYES. 
The Arctic Explorer, New York. 
DR. T. S. GARLICK. 
Author of “Fish Culture,” Bedford, Ohio. 
DR. THOS. M. BREWER. 
Boston, Mass. 
II. W. HENSHAW. 
Ornithologist of Wheeler’s Survey. 
.JOHN BUMSTEAD. 
Author of “On the Wing,” Boston, Mass. 
ISAAC McLELLAN, Esq. 
The Poet Sporteman, Greenpoint, L. I. 
FRED. J. ABBEY & CO.. 
Importers and Manufacturers of Breech and Mnzzie-Ioading 
Gfuns^ isiols^ 
Fishing Tackle and Getieral Sport- 
ing Goods, 
Bad shooting gnns made to shoot well. Breech-loading gnns, cen 
tralfire, at from g-tO 00 to $200.00. Our own make, (F. J. Abbey 
& Co.’s patent), proved superior /(W close shootinq and jxnetralion 
to any other make at the recent Illinois gun trials. From $150.00 
TO $400.00, WITH IMPLKMENTS iND CASES COMPl.ft'E. SlltUs loaded 
to ordei-. 
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at gnu ^|ovk 6un Cuial 
IMPOKTANT— The above are now sent and delivered fre«. 
Prices below include the gun, duty and Cipress, and every cost. 
Eclipsk Breech-loader, $100. 
Nothin" to equal it in the market, under nearly double the price. 
Prices, t>7U, $80, $100, $125, $150, $200, and a splendid special extra 
quality $250, gold. Order direct from the manufacturer, and so 
get full value for your money. Circulars mailed free Irom 
87, High 8t., Cheltenham, England. 
A History of North American Birds 
MESSRS. LITTLE. BROWN A CO., 
110 Washington Street, Boston, 
Also for $ale at Office of American sportsman. 
Have the pleasure of announcing to the public an entirely origina 
work upon the Biuds of North America, prepared by Prof: bpen 
cer F. Baird, Assistant Secretary of the bmithsonian Institiuion 
with the co-operation of Dr Thomas M. Brewer and Mr. Kober 
Ridgway. 
The Land Birds, complete in .S vols smalHto, illustrated by 698 
wood cuts, and h4 plates of full life size llustrations of the Heads of 
the species. Vols 1, 11. and ill. Land Birds now ready 
Price $10.00 per vol.; colored by hand, $20.00. Volume 
IV., on the Water Birds, is in an advanced state of preparation 
and will, it is expected; be ready early in 1875. 
Delivered fhee to any part oj the United IStates on receipt of price. 
The authors have been permitted access to the unrivalled collec- 
tions of the Smithsonian Institution, which embrace every thing 
necessary to the preparation of a complete account of the birds of 
North America, in the immense number of skins as also of nests 
and e"gs, brought from every locality, and properly classified and ar- 
ranged, and iu most cases accompanied by detailed notices of their 
history . 
The object of the present work is to give a complete account of 
the birds of the whole of North America, north of Mexico, arranged 
according to the most approved system of modern classification ; and 
with descriptions which, while embodying w hatever is necessary to 
the proper definition of the species ana their varieties, in as simple a 
language as possible, exclude all unnecessary technicalities ana ir- 
relevant matter. On this account it is especially recoinmeuaed to 
the beginner. The descriptions are all prefaced by analytical and 
synoptical tables intended to diminish as much as possible the la- 
bor of identification. 
John E. Earle, 
SOLICITOR OP 
AMERICAN AND FOREIGN PATENTS. 
FIRE ARaMS a specialty. 
Having certified copies of all English, French and American Pat- 
ents of F^ire-arms on file, my facilities for rendering service to in- 
ventors in this department are unsurpassed. Patents secured, or 
“copies of patents” already granted, on favorable terms. 
Address JOHN E. EARLE, New Haven, Conn. 
Seth Green Fish Ponds, 
Caledonia, Livingsion Co., New York. 
A. S. COLLINS, - - ' - - - Proprietor, 
(Successor to Seth Green & A. S. Collins.) 
Eggs, Fry, Yearlings, etc., of Brook Tront, Salmon Trent, Sal- 
mon, White Fish, etc. Everything pertaining to fish cultnre. Send, 
for price List 
NEW WORK BY I) R. COUES. 
FIELD OENITHOLOGY. 
A complete manual of Instruction in all that pertains to Shooting 
Skinning, and stuffing birds. Covers the ground most thoroughly 
and at once becomes 
THE STANDARD TREATISE 
for sportsmen, collectors and amateurs. It also contains a 
( HECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Giving the scientific and common name of every species and va- 
riety, after the approved 
CLASSIFICATION AND NOMENCLATURE Oh 
THE "KEY." 
The CHECK-LIST is printed so as to leave ample room for record 
ing observations in field, and also issued as a separate pamphlet, to 
be cut up and used in labelling collections. Its great convenience 
will be immediately perceived. 
MANUAL and CHECK-LIST together. Svo. cloth, I 
J! beautifnlly bound and printed ) 
CHECK-LIST separate, in pamphlet 75Cts] 
NATURALISTS’ AGENCY, Salem, Mass. 
For Sale at this Oflice, and booksellers generally. 
