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W. S. BARMUM^ 
SYRACUSE, X. Y 
Dealer iu all kiuds of Sportsmen’s goods. 
Guns, Revolvers, Fishing Tackle, Base 
Ball Supplies, &c.. 
Also all kinds of ammnnition of the very best quality* 
i^IiizzIc-Loadiug Guns altered to Breecli- 
Loadint^ a specialty. 
ClAIIK i SSEIIEB, 
214 West Pratt street, Baltimore, Maryland. 
t . J. MA\ \ ARI) & to., 
DEALERS IX SPECIMENS OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
We have just received a fresh ‘supply of BIRD SKINS and EGGS 
as well as other objects of Natural History, from Florida and else 
where. Collectors will do w'ell to send for our skin catalogue and 
make a selection at ouce, so as to secure the best of the lot. 
MOUNTED GAME BIRDS A SPECIALTY, 
WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY FOR SALE. 
PICTURES OP GAME BIRDS AND MAMMALS. 
SOMETHING NEW. 
Game Birds and Mammals, mounted medalion-like, t« bang on 
the walls of your dining room or office. 
NEW BIRD TRAP. 
Just the thing to catch living birds for the cages or for mounting 
specimens. Price 75 cents; all ready fur use. 
Send stamp for the New Catalogue. 
Address C. J. MAYNARD & CO., 
NEWTONVILLE, MASS. 
Poultry World. 
A splendid illustrated Monthly, devoted entirely to Poultry. $1.2f 
a year. Tnvo or more volumes furnished at $1.00 each. The third 
volume commences Jan. 1874. Address, POULTRY WORLD 
Hartford. Conn. 
Seth Green Eish 
Caledonia, Livingston Co., New York. 
A. S. COLLINS, 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 
STOP! Camper! Stop! 
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Styles and prices — “Adirondack’' and “ Miner,” $4 each. The 
“Sheridan,” with plain canvas. $5; with both plain and quilt- 
ed canvas. $10. All styles, equal to any mattrass in comftut. Un- 
approachable in excellence. Perfect iu 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 iu the heart of the wil- 
derness; a be<l everywhere and superior to any hammock for 
lawns, piazzas or dwellings. 
CAMP LOUNGE CO., Troy. N. Y. 
THE CELEBliATED, 
SPORTING, AND BLASTING POWDER, 
MANUFACTURED BY 
CARL BITTAIAR, 
Under His Own Patents, 
CAN NOW BE HAD REGULARLY AND IN ANY 
QUANTITY. 
SEE CIRCULARS FOR FULL TESTIMONIALS AS TO SUPK- 
ItlORITY OVER OTHER MAKES. 
The new patent sportiug 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 
Shultze's or English Wood Powder, or Sawdust Powder, as it is su- 
perior lo 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 guu, as each kind is made. 
HENRY A. GOULD, 
Works at Neponset. SELLING AGENT, 
101 Milk Street, Boston, Mass. 
FILE BINDER. 
Handsome cloth covered gilt lettered binders, suitable for Slat of 
the SrosTsxaN Price $1 -SO, For aale at this oSiee, and sent hr 
mail on receipt of price. 
iriLBlR F. PARKER Editor and Proprietor 
Terms, Four Dollars a Year in Advance. 
Rates of Ad rerfisi ng : 
Single insertion . 00 per inch,oi 12 nonpareil liin s; 
less than 1 inch 30cls. pr line. 
Liberal discount made on displayed and permanent 
advertisements. 
The'ROT) AND THE GL'N u the contiunaVton of the AMERICAN 
SPORTSMAN. It the recognized ottjan of the ShofUing 
and F^hing Fraternity, 'and kan doitUe ,the circu- 
lation of any other paper among gunnere 
and Jt/iheiei, 
It reaches tirst-class people and is a 
FIRST-CLASS ADVERTISING MED: I'M. 
Nothing will ever be permitted to enter its columns of a loio or 
tendency. Its articles are dcsigm d to ei.evatk and re- 
riN'E 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 and useful knowledge on all practical points 
relating to the Kennel and Field Management of Dogs, Guns and 
Gunnery, Fish Breeding, and Natural IIi.s(ory. 
A great want in this country hat 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 Sportsmen, and those who glance through our 
pages will see that this is fully appreciated. 
I he body of the paper will be devoted to reports of Foreign and 
Home Sporting Events, Pigeon Matches^ Field and Fishing Inci- 
dents and Adventures, and to the articles of our largeaud 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 scieuiists, naturalists, 
and acconuilished sportsmen whose elegant and instructive articles 
have s» long beeu a power in ihe columns of the American 
Sportsman. It is with satisfaction that we can quote their ap- 
proval of onreourse, and announce a continuance of their very val- 
uable cooperation. 
PROF. S. F. BAIRD, 
A.'isistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. 
Washington. D. C. 
PROF. TilEO. GILL. 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 
PROF. O. C. MARSH. 
Yale College, New uaven. 
IlON. J. D. CATON, L. L, D. 
Late Chief Justice of Illinois. 
Ottawa 111. 
DR. ELLIOTT COUES, U. S. A. 
Surgeon and Naturalist to Northern Boundarv Survey. 
Washington, D. C. 
DR. II. C. YARROW. 
Surgeon and Naturalist to the United States Explo.-in;; Expedition. 
Washington, D. C. 
ROBERT RIDGAVAY. 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C 
DR. J. B. HOLDER. 
Curator, Amei ican Museum, Central Park, New York. 
C. J. MAYXARD. 
Ncwtonville, Mass. 
W. A. cJoNHvLIN, 
Superiutendant Menagerie, Central Fark, New York 
SETII GREEN, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
A. S. COLLINS, 
Caledonia, N. Y. 
DR. ROTHROCTv, 
\\ asbington. 
J. A. MILDER, Esq., 
Washington. 
FRED MATHER, 
Uoneoye Falls, N.Y. 
TIIADDEUS NORRIS, 
Philadelphia, Penn. 
DR. JARED P. KIRTLAXD, L.L.D 
East Brock'iort Ohio. 
DR. 1. 1. [lAYES. 
The Arctic Explorer, New York. 
DR. T. S. GARLICK. 
Author of “Fish Culture," Bedford, Ohio 
DR. THOS. M. BREWER. 
Boston, Mins. 
11. W. HEN SHAW. 
Ornithologist of Wheeler’s Survey. 
JOHN BU.MSTEAD. 
Anthoi of “On the Wing,” Boston Mass. 
ISAAC McLELLAN, 
• The Poet Sportsman. Oreenpoint, L. I. 
LIVIXGSTON STONE 
Charleetown, N, H. 
FRED J. ABBEY & CO.. 
Importers and Manufacturers of Breech and Muaz-e-loading 
t^uns^ istols^ 
Fishing Tackle and General Sport- 
ing 'Goods, 
Bad shooting guns made to shoot well. Breech-loading guns, cen 
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. 51-G CHICAGO. Illinois. 
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FIELD ORNITHOLOG-Y. 
A complete manual of Instruction in all that pertains to Shooting 
SkinuiDi;, and sriiffing birds. Covers the ground most thoroughly 
and at ouce becomes ■ 
THE STANDARD TREATISE 
or sportsmen, collectors and amateurs. It also contains a 
(HElK-LIST OF XOBTII AMERU AX BIRDS. 
Giving the scientific and common name of every species and va- 
riety, alter the apiwovcd 
CLASSIFICATIOX AXD NOMENCLATURE OL 
THE 'HCET." 
The CHECK-LIST is printed so as to leave ample room for record 
ing observations in held, and also issued as a separate pamphlet, to 
be cut up and used in labelling collections. Its great convetiitnct 
will be immediately perceived. 
M.\NUAL and CHECK LIST together. 8vo. cloth, I 
beautifully hound and printed ) “ 
CHECK LIST separate, in pamphlet. 75 Cts 
NATURALISTS’ AGENCY, Siilem, Mass. 
For Sale at this OPiee, and booksellers generally. 
American Wild Fowl Sliooting^. 
BY JOSEPH W. LONG. 
Describing the liiiunts, habits, and method of shooting wild fowl, 
with instructions concerning gnus, blind.s. boats and decoys; the 
trainingof water retrievers, etc. 
This book is written in plain English, nd in a moat attractive 
style. A broad, sad at the same time, aucurute view is taken of 
duck shooting in all parts of the country. The habits and feeding 
grounds of the mallard, blue-winged teal, pin-tail, wood, gadwell, 
and coveller; red-headed, bullle-heatled, and other kinds of ducks, 
geese, swans, etc., have beeu 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.’’— Arg'ua. 
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in the evening.’’— Nun. 
“Almost indispensable to the sportsman.” — Arcadian. 
Published by J. B. FORI) Jt CO., 2T Pane Place, New York. For 
sale bv all Booksellers and the leading Gunsmiths. Price $2. Sent 
by mail by the Publishers. Also for sale at the othce of Americax 
SrOKTSMAN. 
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Price 75 Cents. Haiiilsomely Bound in Cloth, with 
Exuuisite Frontispiece. 
Shooting on the Wing; 
A Book for Young Sportsmen. 
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ccMTiing all tliat relates to Guns and Shooting, and particularly in re- 
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“ The directions are so plain that they cuiiuot well be mietaken.” 
■^Turf, Field and Farm. 
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“A modest little book, bat one from the reading of which a good 
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on receipt of price. Address 
INDUSTRIAL PUBLICATION CO., 
176 Broadway, New York. 
Thomas Sparks^ 
Shot Sl BarLead 
anuLfactuir er , 
[Established, 1808] 
Office, No a 121 Walmit treet, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
