1875 
I 
4.7 
ALBERT G. KUGK 
[Successor to N. J. PLC5IB,] 
N'o. 32 Park Row, 
Opposite New Postoffice. NEW YORK. 
IMPORTER OP 
Neeiiles and Fisli-Hooh, 
AND DEALER IN ALL KINDS OP 
W ILBUR F. PARKER Editor and Proprietor 
Terms, Four Dollars a Year in Advance. 
Fishing Tackle, Guns, Revolvers, 
Skates and Sporting Goods. 
W7 S. BARltfUlVI^ 
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 best Quality. 
niuzzIe-Loadiu^ Guns altered to Breech- 
Loading a specialty. 
Clark & SuEirER, 
214 West Pratt street, Baltimore, Maryland. 
Gunpowder ! 
ORANGE SPORTING POWDER. 
Orange Lightning Powder. 
Best Powder made. Noe. 1 to 7. Packed only in sealed one pound 
ca niste rs. 
er Care must be taken to use no finer size than No. 5 in metal 
shells, or fine breech loading guns, as it is too quickfci the strength 
of either 
Orange Ducking Powder. 
For water fowl. Very strong and clean. Nos. 1 to 5. Packed in 
metal kess of 6 1*4 lbs., and canisters of 5 and 1 lb. 
Audubon Powder. 
Very quick, for woodcock and other shooting from ‘muzzle 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 Powder. 
The best for rifiee, and good for all ordinary purposes. Sizes, FG, 
FFQ, FFFG. Packed in wood and metal kegs of 25, 12 1-2, and 6 1-4 
ibs., and canisters of 1 lb. and 1-2 lb. 
All the above brands give high velocities and lees residuum than 
any other powder. 
LAFLIN <fe RAND POWDER CO. 
21 Park Row, (opposite Astor Honse) New York. 
C. J. MAVAARD & CO., 
DEALERS IN SPECIMENS OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
We have just received a fresh supply of BIRD SKIN5> and EGGS 
as well as other objects of Natural Historj', from Florida and else 
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, 
W'ORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY FOR SALE. 
PICTURES OF GAME BIRDS AND MAMMALS. 
SOMETHING NEW. 
Game Birds and Mammals, mounted medalion-Iike, to hang on 
the walls of your dining room or office. 
ITEW BIRD CAGES. 
Just the thing to catch living birds for the cages ordor mounting 
•pecimens. Price 60 cents; all ready for nse. 
Send stamp for the New Catalogue. 
Address C. J. MAYNARD & CO.. 
NEWTONVILLE. MASS 
Dirigo Rural^ 
A live, wide-awake fresh, weekly paper devoted to our Home 
Industrial interests. The paper for every farmer and mechanic. 
The friend of the loboring classes, and a necessity in everv home. 
It is just the paper you want and have been looking for. send for 
specimen numbers. 
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Rates of Advertising: 
Single insertion. $3.00 per inch,oi 12 nonpareil lines; 
less than 1 inch 30cts. pr line. 
Liberal discount made on displayed and permanent 
advertisements. 
The ROD AND THE GUN is the continuation of the AMERICAN 
SPORTSMAN. It w the recognized organ of the Shooting 
and Fishing Fraternity, and has double the circu- 
lation of any other paper among gunners 
and JlsherSy 
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- 
fine the sports of the field, and make them as they should be, 
the pursuits of cultivated gentlemen. The object of ihe paper s 
to spread a general aud useful knowledge on all practical points 
relating to the Kennel and Field Managewent of Dogs, Guns and 
Gunnery, Fish Breeding, and Katnrtd llistory. The eminent 
names in our list of contributors furnish a guarantee that our sev- 
eral departments will be kept up to a staudaid of excellence not to 
be surpassed in any journal. 
A great want in this country has been a paper through which 
sportsmen could exchange their views, and discuss matters of gen- 
eral interest. To meet this, a large portion of space is set apart 
for Letters from SpoitTsMEN, and those who glance through our 
pages will see that this is fully appreciated. 
ihe body of the paper will be devoted to reports of Foreign and 
Home Sporting Events, Pigeon Matches, Field and Fishing Inci- 
dents and A-dventures, and to the articles of our largeand unequaled 
corps of contributors. 
It is with no small pride that we are enabled te quote the names 
of men who stand in the foremost ranks as scientists, naiuralists, 
and accomplished sporismeu whose elegant and instructive articles 
have so long been a power in the columns of the American 
^ poRTSMAN. It is with Satisfaction that we can quote their ap- 
proval of our course, and announce a continuance of their very v^- 
uable cooperation. 
PROF. 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. C’ATON, L. L. D. 
Late Chief Justice of Illinois. 
Ottawa ill. 
DR. ELLIOTT COUES, 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. J. B. HOLDER. 
Curator, Ameiican 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. 
ERED MATHER, 
Honeoye Falls, N.Y. 
THADDEUS NORRIS, 
Philadelphia, Penn. 
DR. JARED P. KIRTLAND, L.L.D. 
East Brockoort Ohio. 
Everywhere. Steady employment; lieht, pleasant and profitable. 
You can make money and do good canvassing for the Rural. Try 
itl Address 
DIRIGO RURAL, Bangor, Maine. 
pRiCB. $2 per year in advance 4fiSm 
DR. I. I. HAYES. 
The Arctic Explorer, New York. 
DR. T. S. GARLICK. 
Author of “Fish Culture," Bedford, Ohio. 
Poultry World. 
A splendid illustrated Monthly, devoted entirely to Poultry . $1.21 
a year. Two or more volumes furnished at each. The third 
volume commences Jan. 1874. Address, POULTRY WORLD 
Hartford, Conn. 
FILE BINDER. 
DR. THOS. M. BREWER. 
Boston, Maes. 
H. W. HENSHAW. 
Ornithologist of Wheeler's Survey. 
JOHN BUMSTEAD. 
Author of “On the Wing,” Boston, Mass. 
Handsome cloth covered gilt lettered binders, suitable for files of 
the Spobtsilan. Price (1.60. For sale at this office, and sent by 
mail on receipt of price. 
ISAAC McLELLAN, Esq. 
The Poet Sporteman, Greeopoint, L. I. 
FRED. J. ABBEY & CO.. 
Importers and Manufacturers of Breech and Muza-e-Ioading 
uns. 
istols^ 
Wishing Tackle and General S^wrt- 
ing Goods, 
L 9 -ixj w lu uur own make, (F. J. Abbev 
^ superior for close shootinq and penetraHon 
TO recent Illinois gun trials, From 815U.00 
to Ijiplkmknts and Cases Complete. Shells U>aded 
NO. 43 SOUTH CLARE STREET, 
CHICAGO, Illinois. 
E . O . <3- Pt E E ’ S 
BREECU-L OA DERS, 
•Ifimitrs at grtf ^ork 6tm Criat. 
IMPORTANT— The above are now sent and delivered free 
Prices below include the gun. duty and express, and every cost. 
Eclipse Breech-loader, $100. 
Nothing to equal it in the market, under nearly double the price. 
Prices, gjO, $^ 8100, 8L!5, 81.50, 8'JOO, and a splendid special extra 
quality ^250, goid. Order direct from the mauufactuier, and so 
get fuU value for your money. Circulars mailed free Irom 
' CheitenbaBi, England. 
A History of North American Birds 
MESSRS. LITTLE. BROWN & CO., 
110 Washington Street, Boston, 
Also for Sale at Oflice of American Sportsman 
Have the pleasure 01 announcing to Ihe public an entirely orlo-ma 
work upon the Birds op North America, prepared by Prof- Snen 
cer F. Baird, Assistant Secreiary of the Smithsonian Inslltuiion 
with the co-operalion of Dr. Thomas M. Brewer and Mr. Rober 
Kidgway. 
The Land Birds, complete in S vols. small 4to, illustrated bv 591 
wood cuts, and 64 plates of full life size illustrations of the Heads of 
the species. \ ols I, II. and 111. Land Birds now ready 
Tcr S^'^-W'Pur vol,; colored by hand, 820.00. Volume 
I » y on the W ATEii Birds, IS in an advanced state of preparation 
and will, It 18 expected, be ready early in 1875. 
Ddiveredfree to any part oj the VnHed States on receipt or price 
Ihe autho^avebeeiipcrinitted access to the unrivall^ collec- 
tioiis of the olmthsoiiiaii Institution, which embrace every thins 
necessary to the prepni ation of a complete account of the birds of 
^ortu America, in the immense number of skins as also of nesta 
and eggs, brought from every locality, and properly classified and ar- 
ranged, aud in most cases accompanied by detailed notices of their 
history . 
" ^ complete account of 
the birds ol the whole ol North America, north of Mexico, arranged 
accormng to the most approved system of modern classification; and 
with descriptions which, while embodying whatever is necessary to 
the proper definition oi the species and their varieties, in as simple a 
languageas possible, exclude all unuecessary technicalities and Ir- 
relevant matter. On this account it is especially recommended 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. 
FIUE AUMS A SPECIALTY. 
Having certified copies of all English, French and American Pat- 
ents of Fire-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 Eish Ponds, 
Caledonia, Livingston Co., New York. * 
A. S. C iLLINS, - . . . . Proprietor, 
(Successor to Seth Green & A. S. Collins.) 
Eggs, Fry. Yearlings, etc., of Brook Trout, Salmon Trout, Sal- 
mon, White Fish, etc. Everything pertaining to fish culture. Send. 
for price List. | 
NEW WORK BY DR. COUES. 
FIELD ORNITHOLOGY. 
A complete manual of Instruction in all that pertains to Shooting 
Skinning, and stufliug birds. Covers the ground most thoroughly 
and at once becomes 
THE STANDARD TREATISE 
for sportsmen, collectors and amateurs. It also contains a 
CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AIHERICAIV BIRDS. 
Giving the scientific and common name of every species and va- 
riety, alter the approved 
CLASSIFICATION AND NOMENCLATURE OI 
THE "KEY.” 
The CHECK-LIST is printed so as to leave ample room for record 
ing observaiions in field, aud also issued a.s a separate pamphlet, to 
be cut up and used in labelling collections. Its great convenience 
will be immediately perceived. 
MANUAL and CHECK-LIST together. 8vo. cloth, 
beautifally bound and printed f - 
CHECK-LIST separate, in pamp'ulet 76Cti 
NATURALISTS’ AGENCY, Salem, Mass. 
For Sale at this Office, and booksellers generally. 
