1875 
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W. S. BARI^Um^ 
SYRACUSE, X. Y 
Dealer iu all kinds of Sportsmen’s goods. 
Guns, Revolvers, Fishing Tackle, Base 
Ball Supplies, &c.. 
Also all kinds of ammunition of the very best quality^ 
HIuzzle-Loadiu? Guns altered to Breech- 
Leadin? a specialty. 
Clark k Sskieik, 
214 West Pratt street, Baltimore, Maryland. 
G. J. MAYNARD & CO., 
DEALERS IN SPECIMENS OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
We have jnst received a fresh supply of BIRD SKINS and EGGS 
as well as other objects of Natural liistory, from Florida and elec 
where. Collectors will do well to send for onr skin catalogue ana 
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, 
PICTURES OP GAME BIBBS AND MAMMALS. 
SOMETHING NEW. 
Game Birds and Mammals, mounted medalion-like, to hang en 
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 for use. 
Send stamp for the New Catalogue. 
Address C. J. MAYNARD & CO., 
NEWTONVILLE, MASS. 
Poultry Worldg 
A splendid illustrated Monthly, devoted entirely to Poultry . .21 
year. Two or more volumes furnished at $1.00 each. The third 
volume commencea Jan. 1874. Address, POULTRY WORLD 
Hart ford, Conn. 
Seth Green Eish Ponds, 
Caledonia, Livingaton Co., New York. 
A. S. COLLINS, Propbmtcr, 
(Sneceasor to Seth Green k 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! O&mperl Stop! 
Lightest Bed Ever Knotvn. 
Styles and prices — ‘‘Adirondack’* and “ Miner, $4 each. Ih* 
“Sheridan,” with plain canvas, $5; with both plain and qnnt- 
«d canvas, $10. All style.**, equal to any mattrass iu comfort, in- 
approachable in excellence. Perfect in theory and perfect in actual 
use. Saves ten times its weight and space in blankets, and auus a 
thousand fold to the comfort of the camp. Ladies and gentlemen 
can enjoy the comfort and repose of home in the heart ot the wu- 
derness: a bed everywhero and superior to any hammock for 
lawns, piaazas or dwellings. 
CAMP LOUNGE CO., Troy, N. T. 
THE CELEBRATED, 
SPORTING, AND BUSTING POWDER, 
MANUFACTURED BY 
CARL EITTMAR, 
Under His Own Patents, 
CAN NOW BE IL\D REOULAIiLY AND IN ANY 
QUANTITY. 
SEE CIRCULARS FOR FUT.L TESTIMONIALS AS TO SUPE- 
RIORITY OVER OTHER MAKES. 
The new patent sporting powder does not soil the^un; cloaxiiei 
It when vou use one charge of it after many with black powder; no 
•moke, little recoil, no loud report, high velocity. 
The best ever made in this line; not to be confounded with 
Shultzc's or Euglibh Wood Powder, or Sawdust Powder, as it la su- 
perior to both. , .... 
Ready-made ammunition for sporting and target rifles always on 
Send for full instructions, and if samples are desired state if for 
rifle or shot gun. as each kind is made. 
Address, for the present, 
CHAS, L. AXDREWS, 
55 KILB Y St., Bostok, Maps. 
BINDER. 
Handsome cloth covered gilt lettered binders, suitable for Me* of 
the Rod and Gck’ Price $1.50. For sale »t thiajo®**, and MSt b 
mail oD receipt peiae. 
Terms, Four Dollars a Year in Advance. 
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 GL’N^ is the coniimiafion of the AMERICAN 
SPORTSMAN. It is the recognized organ of the Shooting 
and Fishing Fraternity, and has double the circu- 
lation of any other paper among gunners 
and fishers. 
It reaches first-class people and is a 
FIF^T-CLASS ADVERTISING MEDIUM, 
Nothing will ever b* 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 .8 
to spread a general and useful knowledge on all practical points 
relating to the Kei^nel and Field Managernent of Dogs, Guns and 
Gunnery, Fish Breeding, and Natural History. 
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 Srortsmen, and Those who glance through our 
pages will see that this is fully appreciated. . 
1 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 largeand unequaled 
•orps of contributors. 
Itiis 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 the 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 verj' val- 
uable cooperation. 
PROF. S. F. BAIRD. 
Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
United Slates Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. 
Washington, D. C. 
PROF. THEO. GILL. 
SmithtoDian Institution, Washington, D.C. 
PROF. 0. C. MARSH. 
Yale College, New Haven. 
HON. J. D. CATON, L. L. D. 
Late Chief Justice of Illinois. 
Ottawa 111. 
DR. ELLIOTT COUE8. 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. 
ROBERT RIDGWAY. 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C 
DR. J. B. HOLDER. 
Curator, American Museum, Central Park, New York. 
C. J. MAYNARD. 
Newtonville, Mass. 
W. A. Unklin, 
Superintendant Menagerie, Central Park, New York 
SETH GREEN, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
A. S. COLLINS, 
Caledonia, N. Y. 
DR. ROTHROCK, 
W ashiugton. 
J. A. MILNER, Esq., 
Washington. 
FRED ]VrATHER, 
Honeoye Falls, N.Y. 
THADDEUS NORRIS, 
Philadelphia, Penn. » 
DR. JARED P. KIRTLAND, L.L.D 
East Brorknort Ohio, 
DR. I. I. HAYES. 
The Arctic Explorer, New York. 
DR. T. S. OARLICK. 
Author of “Fish Culture,” Bedford, Ohia 
DR. THOS. M. BREWER. 
Boston, Mass. 
II. W. HENSHAW. 
Ornithologist of Wheeler’s Survey. 
.JOHN BUM STEAD. 
Author of “On the Wing,” Boston Musa. 
ISAAC McLELLAN, 
The Poet Sportsman. Greenpoint, L. L 
LIVINGSTON STONE 
Cbarleatown, N. H. 
FRED J. ABBEY & CO.. 
Importers and Manufacturers of Breech and Mnaz*e-loading 
^^UXIS^ iHiifles^ istols^ 
Fishing Tackle and General Sjport- 
ing Goods, 
’“ Bad shooting guns made to shoot well. Breech-loading gnns, cen 
tral fire, at from $40 00 to $200.00. Our own make, (F. J. Abbey 
i Co.’s patent), proved superior /or close shootinq and penelralion 
to any other make at the recent Illinois gun trials, From $150.00 
TO $4o0.00, WITH Implkments and Cases Complete. Shells loaded 
to order. 
NO. 43 SOUTH CLARK STREET, 
i 51-tr CHICAGO, Illinois. 
NEIV WORK BY UR. 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 
or sportsmen, collectors and amateurs. It also contains a 
CHECK-LIST OF AORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Giving the scientific and common name of every species and va- 
riety, alter 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 coneenienct 
will be immediately perceived. 
MANUAL and CHECK-LIST together. Svo. cloth, I 
beautifully bound and printed ( 
CHECK-LIST separate, in pamphlet 76 Cti 
NATURALISTS’ AGENCY, Salem, Ma*ss. 
For Sale at this Office, and hooksellcrs generally. 
Atucricau Wild Fowl Shooting. 
BY JOSEPH W. LONG. 
Describing the haunts, habits, and method of shooting wild fowl, 
with instructions concerning guns, blinds, boats and decoys; tha 
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 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, buffle-headed, and other kinds of dneks, 
geese, swans, etc., have been carefully and ingenionsly studied and 
given to the reader. 
In thirty chapters the author has furnished information for th« 
young as well as for the practical sportsman. 
“A book for sportsmen, by a sportsman.”— Aryua. 
“Tells where to find game in the morning, in the afternoon, and 
in the evening.”— Nun. 
“Almost indispensable to the sportsman.”— Arcadian. 
Published by J. B. FORD & CO., 27 Park 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 office of American 
Sportsman. 
A. New and Live Book on the Gun. 
Price 75 Cents. Handsomely Bound in Cloth, with 
EsQuisite Frontispiece. 
Shooting on the Wing; 
A Book for Young Sportsmen. 
BY AX OLD GAMEKEEPER. 
A simple, reliabie, practical little volume, full of useful hints con- 
cerning all that relates to Guns and Shooting, and particularly in re- 
.ard to the art of Loadino so as to Kill. It also contains a large 
number of valuable receipts relating to Sporting Matters. 
“ The directions are so plain that they cannot well be mistaken.” 
— Turf, Field and Farm. 
“ For concise instruction as to how to shoot, to select, load, carry, 
and keep a gun in order, etc., it cannot be surpassed.”- If’cslsrh 
Rural. 
“A modest little book, but one from the reading of which a good 
deal of the right kind of knowledge is to be gained.” — Appleton's 
Journal. 
May lie ordered from any Bookseller, or will be sent free by mail 
on receipt of price. Address 
INDUSTRIAL PUBLICATION CO., 
176 Broadway, New York. 
Thomas Sparks^ 
Shot &; BapLead 
JS/L £Liiuifa,ct,uir er , 
[Established, 18081 
Office, Xo. 121 Walnut treet, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
