July 31, 1875. 
271 
W. S. BARl^UM, 
SYBACISE, N. r., 
Dealer in all kinds of Sportsmen’s Goods. 
Guns, Revolvers, Fishing Tackle, 
Base Ball Supplies, &c., 
A.1bo all kinds of ammanition of the very best quality. 
Rates of AdveHislny: 
3Iiizzle-Lohding Guns Altered to 
Breech-Loading a Specialty. 
CLABK & S^EIDER, 
214 We*t Pratt street, Baltimore, Maryland. 
C. J. MAYNARD k CO., 
DEALERS IN SPECIMENS OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
We have just received a fresh supply of BIRD SKINS and EOQS, 
as well as other objects of Na'ural History, from Florida and else- 
where. Collectors will do well to send for onr sain catalogue, and 
make a selection at once, so as ■ o secure the best of the lot. 
MOUNTED GAME BIRDS A SPECIALTY. 
WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY FOR SALE. 
riCTUBBS or game birds and mammals. 
SOMETHING NEW: 
Game Birds and Mammals, mounted medulion-like, to hang on 
the walls of your dining-room or office. 
NEW BLBD 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. MAYN-kRD & CO., 
NEWTONVILLE, MASS. 
Poultry World. 
A splendid Illuetrated Monthly, devoted entirely to Poultry. $1 25 
a year. Two or more volnmes furnished at |,1.00 each. The third 
volume commences January, 1874. Address POULTRY WORLD, 
Hartford, Conn. 
Set/i Green Fish Potttls, 
Caledonia, Livingston Co., N. Y. 
A. S. COLLINS Proprietor. 
(Successor to Seth Green & A. S. Collins.) 
Eggs, Fry, Yearlings, etc., of Brook Trout, Salmon 
Trout, Salmon, White Fish, etc. Everything pertaining 
to Fish culture. Send for Price List. 
STOP ! Camper ! Stop ! 
Lu/htest Bed Ever Known. 
Single insertion, $3 00 per inch, or 12 nonpareil lines; 
less than 1 inch 30 per line. 
Liberal discount made on displayed and permanent 
advertisements. 
T/u ROD AND THE GUN is the continuation of the AMERICAN 
SPORTSM AN. His the recognized organ of the Shooting 
and Fishing Fraternity, and ha double the circu- 
lation of any other -paper among gunners 
and Jishers. 
It reaches flrat.-cla8s people and is a 
FIRST-CLASS ADVERTISING MEDIUM. 
Nothing win ever be permitted to enter its columns of alow 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 is to 
spread a general and useful knowledge on all practical points relat- 
ing to Kennel and Field Management of Dogs, Guns and Gun- 
nery, 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 ponion of spac is set apart 
for letters prom Sportsmen, aim those who glauce through our 
pages will sie that thisis fully appreciated. 
The body of the paper will be devoted to reports of Foreign and 
Home Sporting Events, Pigeon Matches, Field and Fishing Incidents 
and Adventures, and to the articles of our large and unequaled corps 
of contrihmors. 
It is V ith no small pride that we arc enabled to quote the names 
of men who stand in the foremost ranks as scientists, naturalists, 
and accompli. bed sportsmen whose elegant and instructive articles 
have so long been a power 'u the columns of the American Sports- 
man. It is with satisfaction that we can quota their approval of 
our course, and announce a continuance of their very valuable co- 
operation. 
PROF. S. F. BAIRD, 
Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
United Stales Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. 
Washmgton, D. C. 
PROF. THEO. GILL, 
Sraithsoniau Institution, Washington, D. C. 
PROF. O. C. MARSH, 
Yale College, New Haven. 
HON. J. D. CATON, LL. D,. 
Late Chief Jnstice of Hlinois, 
Ottawa, Hi. 
DR. ELLIOTT GOUES, U. S. A, 
Surgeon and Naturalist to Northern Boundary Survey. 
Washington, D. C. 
POCKET BEDSTEADS 
Styles and prices— “ Adirondack ” and “Miner,” $4 each. The 
“Sheridan.” with plain canvas, $5: with both plain and quilted 
canvas, $10. All styles, equal to any mattress in comfort. Un- 
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 bed everywhere and superior to any hammock for lawns, 
piazzas or dwellings. 
CAMP LOUNGE CO., Troy, X. Y. 
DR. H. C. YARROW, 
Snrgeon and Naturalist to the United States Exploring Expedition . 
Washington, D. C. 
ROBERT RIDGWAY”, 
SmithsoBian Institution, Washington, D. C. 
DR. J. B. HOLDER, 
Curator, American Museum, Central Park, New York. 
C. J. MAYNARD, 
Newtonville, Mass. 
W. A. CONKLIN, 
Superintendent Menagerie, Central Park, New York. 
SETH. GREEN, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
A. S. COLLINS, 
Caledonia, N. Y. 
DR. ROTHROCK, 
Washington. 
OFFICE, 
55 KILBY ST., 
BOSTON. 
CHAS. L. ANDREWS, Pres’t CHAS. J. WHITMORE, Treas r. 
HAVE FOR SALE 
Dittmar^'s Crunpowder, 
FOR SHOT GUNS AND RIFLES. 
SECLTIED BY LETTERS PATENT. 
Fixed Ammunition for all varieties of Rifles and Shot-Guns far- 
nished at short notice. 
J. A. MILNER. Es<i, 
Washington. 
FRED MATHER, 
Iloneoye Falls, N. Y. 
THADDEUS NORRIS, 
Philadelphia, Penn. 
DR. JARED P. KIRTLAND, LL. D., 
East BrocUport, Ohio. 
DR. I. iT^YY'ES, 
The Arctic Explorer, New York. 
DR. T. S. GARLICK, 
Author of “Fish Culture,” Bedford, Ohio. 
DR. THOS. M. BREWER, 
Bostou, Muss. 
The new patent sporting powder does not soil the gun: cleanses 
it when you nee 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 
Shnlize's or English Wood Powder, or Sawdust Powder, as it is su- 
perior to both. 
FILE BINDER. 
Handsome cloth covered gilt lettered binders, enitable for files of 
the Rod and Gun. Price, $1.50. For sale at this office, and sent by 
mail on receipt of price. 
H. W. HENSHAW, 
Ornithologist of Wheeler’s Survey. 
JOHN BUMSTEAD, 
Author of “On the Wing,” Boston, Mass. 
ISAAC McLELLAN, 
The Poet Sportsman, Greenpoint, L. I. 
LIVINGSTON STONE, 
Charlestown, N. H. 
FRED. J. ABBEY & CO., 
Importers and Manufacturers of Breech and Mnzzle-losding 
Gruns, Rifles, Pistols, 
Eishing Tackle and General Sporting Goods, 
Bad shooting guns made to shoot well. Brcec -lo ding guns, 
central fire, at from $40.01 to $200.00. Our own make (F. .1. Abbey 
& Co.’s patent), proved supermr /oi- close shooting and jKnelration 
to any othe' make at the recent Illinois gun trials, from $1.50.00 
to $4U0.00, with Implements and Ca-es Complete. SheUs loaded 
to order. 
No. 43 HO UTH CLABK STREET, 
51-tf CHICAGO. Illinois. 
NEW WORK BY DR. COUES. 
FIELD ORNITHOLOGY. 
A complete Manual of Instruction in all that pertains toShootinj; 
Skiunim; and stufhng birds. Covcis ihe ground most thoroughly, 
and at once becomes 
The Standard Treatise 
of Sportsmen, Collectore and Amateurs. It also contains a 
CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIBDS, 
Giving the scientific and common name of every species and variety . 
after the approved 
CLASSIFICA TION AFV NOMENCLA TUBE OF THE ^^KEY. ’ 
The CHECK LIST is printed so as to leave ample room for re- 
cording observations infield, and also issued as a separate pam- 
phlet, to be cut up and used in labeling collections. Its great 
convenience will be immediately perceivem 
MANUAL and CHECK-Ll5>T together. 
beautifuily bound and printed 
CHECK- LIST, separate, in pamphlet 
8vo, cloth, ( 
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$2 75 
75 cts. 
NATURALISTS’ AGENCY, Salem, Mass. 
For sale at this office, and book-sellers generally. 
Arntrican Wild Foivl Shooting. 
BY JOSEPH W. LONG. 
Describing the haunts, habits and method of shooting 
wild fowl, with instructions concerning guns, blinds, 
boats and decoys; the training of water retrievers, etc. 
This book is written in plain English, and in a most 
attractive style. A broad, and at the same time, accurate 
view is taken of duck shooting in all parts of tlie 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 ducks, geese, 
swans, 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 sportman. 
“ A hook for sportsmen, by a sportsman.” — Argus. 
“ Tells where to find game in the morning, in the 
afternoon, and in tlie evening.” — Sun. 
“ Almost indispensable to the sportsman.” — Arcadian. 
Published by J. B. FORD & CO., 27 Park Place, New 
York. For sale by all Booksellers and the leading Gun- 
smiths. Price $2. Sent by mail by the Publishers. 
Also for sale at the office of the American Sportsman. 
A New and Live Book on the Gun. 
Price 75 cents. Handsomely Bound in Cloth, with 
Exquisite Frontispiece. 
Shooting on the Wing; 
A Book for Young Sportsmen, 
BY AN OLD GAMEKEEPER. 
A simple, reliable practical little volume, full of useful hints con- 
cerning all that relates to Guus and ^hooiing, aud particularly in 
regard to the art of Loading so as to Kill. It also contains a 
large number of valuable receints relating to Sporting Matters. 
*• The directions are so plain that they cannot well be mistaken.” 
— Turf^ Field and Farm. 
** Fur concise instruction as to how to shoot, to select, load, carry 
and keep a gun in order, etc., it cannot be surpassed.”— 
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' 8 
Journal. 
May be ordered from any Book-seller, or will be sent free by mail 
on receipt of price. Address 
INDUSTRIAL PUBLIC. 4TION CO.. 
17(i Broadway, New York. 
THOMAS SPARKS, 
Shot &;Bar Lead 
MANUFACTURER 
[Established, 18081- 
Office, No. 121 Walnut Street, 
PHIIiADELPHIA, PA. 
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