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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. 
Wuzzle-Loading Guns altered to Breech- 
Loadinj? a specialty. 
Clark 4 Sneiieb; 
214 West Pratt street, Baltimore, Maryland. 
C. J. MAYiXAUI) & (0., 
DEALERS IN SPECIMENS OF NATURAL IIISTORA'. 
We have just received a fresh supply of BIRD SKINS and EGGS 
as well as other objects of Natural Ilistory, 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 SPECL\LTY, 
WORKS ON NATLTIAL HISTORY FOR SALE. 
PICTURES OP GAME BIRDS AND MAMMALS. 
SOMETHING NEW. 
Game Birds and Mammals, mounted medalion-like, to hang on 
the walls of your dining room or office. 
NEW BIRD TRAP. 
Just the thing to catch living birds for the cages or for monuting 
specimens. Price 75 cents; all ready for use. 
Send stamp for the New Catalogue. 
Address C. J. MAYNARD & CO.. 
NEWTONVILLE, MASS. 
Poultry World. 
A splendid illustrated ^[onthly, devoted entirely to Poultry . $1 .2{ 
a year. Two or more volumes furnished at $1 . W each. The third 
volume commences Jan. 1874. Address, POULTRY WORLD 
Hart.fowd. Oonn. 
Seth Green Fish Ponds, 
Caledonia, Livingston Co., New York. 
A. S. CJLLINS, 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, 
f or price List. 
STOP! hamper! Stop! 
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POCKET BEOSTEAflfc 
Styles and pricee— “Adirondack" and “ Miner," $4 each. The 
“Sheridan," with plain canvas, $5; with both plain and quwt- 
ed canvas. $10. All styles, equal to any mattrass in comfort. Ln- 
approachable in excellence. Perfect in theory and perfect in actual 
use. Saves ten times its weight and space in blankets, and adds a 
thousand fold to the comfort of the camp. Ladies and gentlemen 
can enjoy the comfort and repose of home in the heart of the wil- 
derness: a beil everywhere and superior to any hammock for 
lawns, piazzas or dwellings. 
CAMP LOUNGE CO., Troy, N. Y. 
THE CELEBRATED 
SPORTING, AND 8LASTING POWDER, 
MANUFACTURED BY 
CARL PITT ALAR, 
Under His Own Patents, 
CAN NOW BE HAD UEGULaVRLY AND IN ANY 
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SEE CIRCULARS FOR FULL TESTIMONIALS AS TO SUPE- 
RIORITY OVER OTHER MAKES. 
The new patent sporting powder does not soil the gun; cleanses 
it when you use one charge of it after many with black powder; no 
smoke, little recoil, no loud report, high velocity. 
The best ever made in this line; not to be confounded with 
Shiiltze's or English Wood Powder, or Sawdust Ponder, as it is su- 
perior to both. 
Ready-made ammunition for sporting and target rifles always on 
hand. 
Send for full instructions, and if 'samples are desired state if for 
rifle or shot gun, us each kind is made. 
MLXRY A. GOULD, 
Works at Neponset. SELLING AGENT, 
101 Milk Street, Boston, Mass. 
FILE BI\DER. 
Handsome cloth covered gilt lettered binders, suitable for files of 
the Srortsmam Price $1.50. For sale at this office, and sent by 
mail on receipt of price. 
WILBUR F. P.1RKER Editor and Proprietor 
Terms, Four Dollars a Year in Advance. 
Rates of Advertising : 
Single insertion. $0.00 per incb,oi 12 nonpareil lines; 
less than 1 inchOOcts. pr line. 
Liberal discount made on displaj^ed and permanent 
advertisements. 
TVicROD AND THE GUN Uthe coniinwition of (he AMERICAN 
SPORTSMAN. It itt the recognized organ of the Shooting 
and Fifhing Fraternity, and hae double Uu circu- 
lation. of any othtr paper among gunners 
and Jlahers, 
It reaches tirst-class people and is a 
FIRST-CLASS ADATIRTISING MEDIUM. 
Nothing will ever be permitted to enter its columns of a low or 
vitiating tendency. Its articles are 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 the paper s 
to spread a general and useful knowledge on all practiced points 
relating to the Kennel and Field Management of Dogs, Gum and 
Gunnery, Fish Breeding, and Katural History. 
A great want in this country hat been a paper through which 
sportsmen could exchange their riews, and discuss matters of gen- 
eral interest. To meet this, a large portion of space is set apart 
for Letters from Sportsmen, and those who glance through our 
pages will see that this is fully appreciated. 
The body of the paper will be devoted to reports of Foreign and 
Home Sporting Events, Pigeon Matches, Field and Fishing Inci- 
dents and jLdventures, and to the articles of our largeand unequaled 
corps of contributors. 
Ittis with no small pride that we are enabled te quote the names 
of men who stand in the foremost ranks as scientists, naturalists, 
and accomplished sportsmen whose elegant and instructive articles 
have so long been a power in ihe columns of the American 
Sportsman. 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 Comrnissioner of Fish and Fisheries. 
Washington. D. C. 
PKOF. 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 COUES, U. S. A. 
Surgeon and Naturalist to Northern Boundarv Survey. 
Washington, D. U. 
DR. H. C. YARROW. 
Surgeon and Naturalist to the United States Exploring Expedition. 
Washington, D. C. 
ROBERT RIDGWAY. 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C 
DR. J. B. HOLDER. 
Curator, Ameiican Museum, Central Park, New York. 
C. J. MAYNARD. 
Newtonville, Mass. 
W. A. CONKLIN, 
Snperintendant Menagerie, Central Park, New York 
SETH GREEN, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
A. S. COLLINS, 
Caledonia, N. Y. 
DR. ROTHROCK, 
Vi ashingtoD. 
J. A. MILNER, Esq., 
W'ashington, 
FRED jMATHER, 
Honeoye Falls, N.Y, 
TIIADDEUS NORRIS, 
Philadelphia. Penn. 
DR. JARED P. KiRTLAND, L.L.D 
Bast Brockuort Ohio. 
DR. I. I. HAYES. 
The .Arctic E.xplorcr, New Y’ork. 
DR. T. S. GARLICK. 
Author of “Fish Culture," Bedford, Ohi* 
DR. THOS. M. BREWER. 
Boston, Mass. 
H. W. HENSHAW. 
Ornithologist of Wheeler’s Survey. 
JOHN BUMSTEAD. 
Anthoi of “Ou the Wing,” Boston, Mass. 
ISAAC JIcLELLrAN, 
The Poet Sportsman, Greenpoint, L. 1. 
LIVINGSTON STONE 
Charlestown, N. H. 
FRED J. ABBEY & CO.. 
Importers and Manufacturers of Breech and 5In^,z'e-loading 
^Tuns^ ^ istols^ 
Fishing Tackle and General Sport- 
ing Goods, 
’TBad shooting guns made to shoot well. Breech-loading guns, cen 
tral fire, at from $40 00 to $200.00. Our own make, (F. J. Abbey 
Si Co.’s patent), proved superior /c»r close shooting and penetration 
to any other make at the recent Illinois gun trials, From $1.50.00 
TO $400.00, WITH Implements and Cases Complete. Shells loaded 
to order. 
no. 43 SOUTH CLARK STREET, 
51-tf CHICAGO, Illinois. 
XEW WORK BY DR. COLES. 
FIELD OKNITHOLOGY. 
A complete manual of Instruction in all that pertains to Shooting 
Skiuuiug, and stutting birds. Covers the ground most thoroughly 
and at ouce becomes 
THE STANDARD TREATISE 
or sportsmen, collectors and amateurs. It also contains a 
CHECK-LIST OF NORTH .l.HERICAN BIRDS. 
Giving the scientific and common name of every species and va- 
riety, after the approved 
CLASSIFICATION AND NOMENCLATURE 01 
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 convenienc* 
will be immediately perceived. 
MANLTAL and CHECK-LIST together. 8vo. cloth, 
beautifully bound and printed ) ® 
CHECK-LIST separate, in pamphlet 76 Cts 
NATURALISTS’ AGENCY, Salem, Mass. 
For Sale at this Office, and booksellers generally. 
American Wild Fowl Shooting. 
BY JOSEPH W. LONG. 
Describing the hannts, habits, and method of shooting wild fowl, 
with instrnctions concerning guns, blinds, boats and decoys; the 
training of water retrievers, etc. 
This book is written in plain English, nd in a most attractive 
style. A broad, and at the same time, accurate view is taken ef 
dnek shooting in all parts of the- country. The habits and feeding 
grounds of the mallard, blue-winged teal, pin-tail, wood, gadwcll, 
and coveller; red-headed, buflle-headed, and other kinds of ducks, 
geese, swaus, etc., have been carefully and ingeniously studied and 
given to the reader. 
In thirty chapters the author has furnished information for the 
young as well as for the practical sportsman. 
"A book for sportsmen, by a sportsman.”— 
“Tells where to find game in the morning, in the afternoon, and 
in the evening.” — Sun. 
“Almost indispensable to the sportsman.”— Arcoeitau. 
Published by J. B. FOKD & CO., 27 P.arK Place, New Y'ork. For 
sale bv ail Booksellers and the leading Gunsmiths. Price $2. Sent 
by mail by the Publishers. Also for sale at the office of Amebicaa 
Sportsman. 
A. New and Live Book on the Gun. 
Price 75 Cents. Handsomely Bound in Clolli, with 
Exauisite Frontispiece. 
Shooting on ihe Wing; 
A Book for Young Sportsmen. 
BY AX OLD GAMEKEEPER. 
A simple, reliable, practical little volume, full of useful hints con- 
cerning all that relates to Guns and Shooting, and particularly in re- 
gard to the art of Loading so as to Kill. It also contains a large 
number of valuable receipts relating to Sporting Matters. 
“ The directions arc so plaiu that they caiiuot well be mistaken.” 
— Turf, Field and Farm. 
" For concise instruction as to how to shoot, to select, load, cariy, 
and keep a gun in order, etc., it cannot be surpassed .” — iVeelerii 
Rural. 
“A modest little book, hut one from the reading of which a good 
deal of tlie right kind of knowledge is to he gidneil."— A/tpfrtort's 
Journal. 
May iie ordered from any Bookseller, or will be sent tree by mail 
on receipt of price. Address 
INDUSTRIAL3PUBL1CATI0N C3., 
176 Broadway, Xew York. 
Thomas Sparks^ 
Shot Sc BapLead 
smuifsLCt.uir er , 
[Established, 18081 
Office, Xo. 121 Walnut treet, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
