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• SYJlACrsE, X 1'., 
Pcalcr 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. 
31iizzle-Loa(lmg Guns Altered lo 
Breecli-Loadiiig’ a Specialty. 
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211 We t Pratt street, Baltimore, Maryland. 
C. J. 3IAYNAKD & CO., 
DEALERS IN SPECIMENS OP NATURAL IllSTORlf. 
We have just received a freph eiipply of BIRD SKINS and EGGS, 
as well as other objects of Natural History, from Florida and else- 
where. Collectors will do well to send for oar s^in 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. 
riCTUKES or game BIHDS and 3IAMMALS. 
SOMETHING NEW: 
Game Birds and Mammals, mounted medaliou-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 mounting 
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 llluet rated Monthly, devoted entirely to Poultry. 25 
a year. Two or more volumes furnished at $1.00 each. The third 
volume commences January, 1874. Address POULTRY WORLD, 
Hartford, Conn. 
Set/i Green Fish Ponds, 
Caledonia, Livingston Co., N. Y. 
A. S. COLLINS Propkietok. 
(Successor to Seth Green & A. S. Collins.) 
Bggs, Pry, Yearlings, etc., of Brook Trout, Salmon 
Trout, Salmon, White Fish, etc. Everything pertaining 
to Fish culture. Send for Price List. 
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less than 1 inch 30 per line. 
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The ROD AND THE GUN is the contimiatvon of the AMERICAN 
SPORTSMAN. It is the recognized organ of the Shooting 
and Fishing Fraternity^ and ha double the ctreu- 
lotion of any other paper among gunners 
and fishers. 
It reaches lirst-clasa people and is a 
FIRST-CLASS ADVERTISING MEDIUM. 
Nothing will ever be permitted to enter its columns of a torn 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 nseful knowledge on aW practical points relat- 
ing to the Kennel and Field Management of pogs, Ouns and Gun- 
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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 spac is set apart 
for LETTERS FROM SPORTSMEN, aud those who glance through our 
pages will see that this is fully appreciated. 
The body of the paper will be devoted to reports of and 
Home Sporting Events, Pigeon Matches, Field and Fishing Incidents 
and Adventures, and to the articles of our large and unequaled corps 
of contributors. 
It is with no small pride that we arc enabled to quote the names 
of men who stand in the foremost ranks as scientists, naturalists, 
and accompli-hed sportsmen whose elegant and instructive articles 
have so long been a power in the columns of the AMEmcAN Sports- 
man. It is with satisfaction that we can quote their approval of 
our course, and announce a continuance of their very valuable co- 
operation. 
PROF. S. F. BAIRD, 
Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Instltntion. 
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.'CAfbN, LL. D,. 
Late Chief Justice of Illinois, 
Ottawa, 111. 
STOP ! Oamper ! Stop f 
LhjJitest Hed Ever Known, 
POCKET BEDSTEAJT. 
COMF 
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CAMP. 
DR. ELLIOTT GOUES, U. S. A, 
Surgeon and Naturalist to Norl^m Boundary Survey. 
Washington, D. C. 
DR. H. C. Y* ARROW, 
Surgeon 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, 
Newtouville, Maes. 
W. A. CONKLIN, 
Superintendent Menagerie, Central Park, New York. 
Styles aud prices— " Adirondack ” and “Miner," $1 each. The 
“Sheridan," with plain canvas, $5; with both plain and quilted 
canvas, $10. All STyleo. equal tn any Tuattroaa in comfort. Un- 
approachable in excellence. Perfect in theory and perfect in actual 
use. Saves ten times its weight aud space in blankets, and adds a 
thousand fold to the comfort of the camp. Ladies and geiilleihcn 
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, N. Y. 
OFFICE, 
55 KILBY ST 
BOSTON. 
CIUVS. L. ANDREWS, Pres’t CHAS. J. WHITMORE, Treas’r. 
HAVE FOR SALE 
Dittmar^s Gunpowder;, 
FOR SHOT GUNS AND RIFLES. 
SECURED BY LETTERS PATENT. 
Fixed Ammunition for all varieties of Kifles aud Shot-Guns fur- 
nished at short notice. 
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 
Shnltze’s or English Wood Powder, or Sawdust Powder, as it is su- 
perior to both. 
FILE BINDER. 
Handsome cloth coveted gilt lettered binders, suitable for files of 
the Rod and Gun. Price, $1.50. For sale at this office, and sent by 
mail on receipt of price. 
SETH. GREEN, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
A. S. COLLINS, 
Caledonia, N. Y. 
DR. ROTHROCK, 
Washington. 
J. A. MILNER, Esq, 
Washington. 
FRED MATHER, 
Honeoye Falls, N. Y. 
THADDEUS NORRIS, 
Philadelphia, Penu. 
DR. JARED P. KIRTLAND, LL. D., 
East Brockport, Ohio. 
DR. I. I. HAYES, 
The Arctic Explorer, New York. 
DR. T. S. GARLICK. 
Author of “Fieh Culture,” Bedford, Ohio. 
DR. THOS. M. BREWER, 
Boston, Maes. 
H. W. HEN8HAW, 
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. 
Importers and Manufacturers of Breech and Muzzle-loading 
Gruns;, Pistols^ 
Fishing Tackle and General Sjiorting Goods. 
Bad shooting gnns mad® to shoot well. Breec -loading guns, 
central fire, at from $40.03 to $200.00. Our own make (F. J. Aobey 
& Oo.'s patent), proved superior for close shooting and ‘penetration 
to any othe- make at the recent Illinois gnn trials, from $150.00 
TO $400.00, WITH Implements and Ca'Es Complete. Shdts loaded 
to order. 
>0. 43 SO UTH CLARK STREET, 
51-tf CHICAGO, Illinois. 
NEW WORK BY DR. CODES. 
FIELD ORNITHOLOGY. 
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 
of Sportsmen, Collectors and Amateurs. It also contains a 
CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS, 
Giving the scientific and common name of every species and variety, 
after the approved 
CLASSIFICATION AND NOMENCLATURE OF THE "KEY.' 
The CHECK-LIST is printed so as to leave ample room for re- 
cording observations in field, and also issued as a separate pam- 
phlet, to be cat up and nsed in labeling collections. Its great 
convenience will he immediately perceived. 
MANUAL and CHECK-LIST together, 
beantifully bound and printed 
CHECK- LIST, separate, in pamphlet 
8vo, cloth, I ,-2 ..J 
75 cts. 
NATFRALISTS’ AGENCY, Salem, Mass. 
For sale at this office, and book-sellers generally. 
American Wild Fowl Shooting. 
BY JOSEPH W. LONG. 
Describing the haunts, habits and method of shooting 
wild fowl, with instruu.tions concerning guns, blinds, 
boats and decoys; the training of water retrievers, etc. 
This book is written in plain English, and in a most 
ittractive style. A broad, and at the sanut 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 ducks, geese, 
swans, etc., have been carefully and ingeniously studied 
and given to the reader. 
In thirty chapters the author has fumislied information 
for the young as well as for the practical sportman. 
“ A book for sportsmen, by a sportsman.” — Argus. 
“ Tells where lo find game in the morning, in the 
afternoon, and in the 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 fimple, reliable practical little volume, fall of useful hints con- 
cerning all that relates to Guns and Shooting, and particularly in 
regard to the art of Loadino 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.” 
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" For concise instrnction as to how to shoot, to select, load, carry 
and keep a gun in order, etc., it cannot be surpassed."— llisstom 
Sural. 
" Amodest little book, butone from the reading of which a good 
deal of the right kind of knowledge is to be gamed."— Appleton's 
Journal. 
May be ordered from any Book-seller, or will be sent free by mail 
on receipt of price. Address 
INDUSTRIAL PUBLICATION CO., 
176 Broadway, New York. 
THOMAS SPARKS, 
Shot &;Bar Lead 
MANUFACTURER 
[Efltabliehed^ 18081. 
Office, No. 121 Walnut Street, 
PHIIiADELPHIA, FA. 
