August 14, 187o. 
303 
W. S. BARNUM, 
HYliACrSE, X. 1., 
Dealer in all kinds of Sportsmen’s Goods. 
Guns, Revolvers, Fishing Tackle, 
Base Ball Supplies, &c., 
Also all kinds of ammanitlon of the very heet quality. 
31uzzle-Loa(liiig- Guns Altered to 
Breech-Loading a Specialty. 
Clabk & Sneider, 
214 We4 Pratt street, Baltimore, Maryland. 
C. J. 3IAYXARD & 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 Na'ural History, from Florida and else- 
where-. Collectors will do well to send for our sain catalogne, and 
make a selection at once, so as lo seenre the best of the lot. 
MOUNTED GAME BIRDS A SPECIALTY. 
WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY FOR SALE. 
PICTORES OF GAME B1ED3 AND MAMMALS. 
SOMETHING NEW: 
Game Birds and Mammals, mounted mcdalion-like, to 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 for use. 
Send stamp for the New Catalogne. 
Address C. J. MAYN.ARD & CO., 
NEWTON YILLE, MASS. 
Poultry World. 
A Hplendid Illusirated Monthly, devoted entirely to Poultry. $1 25 
a year. Two or more volumes furnished at $1.00 each. The third 
volume commences January, 1874. Address POULTRY WORLD, 
Hartford, Conn. 
Setlt Green Fish Ponds, 
Caledonia, Livingston Co., N. Y. 
A- S. COLLINS Proprietor. 
(Successor to Seth Green & A. S. Collins.) 
Eggs, Fry, A'earlings, etc., of Brook Trout, Salmon 
Troiit, Salmon, White Fish, etc. Everything pertaining 
to Fish culture. Send for Price List. 
STOP ! Camper I Stop ! 
Lfif/htesf lied Ever Known, 
POCKET BE0STEA[7; 
TRADE MARK PATENTED. 
SIDE STICKS CUT ON CAMP CR3UN0 
CAMP-LOUNGE FOLDED 
H0USE*""H0ME 
CAMR 
Styles and prices— “ Adirondack ” and “Miner," $4 each. The 
“Sheridan.” with plain canvas, $5; with both plain and quitted 
canvas. $10. All styles, equal to any mattress in comfort. Un- 
approachable in excellence. Perfect in theory and perfect in actnal 
use. Saves ten times its weight and space in blankets, and adds a 
thousand fold to the comfort of the eamp. 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. 
CA31P LOUNGE CO., Troy, N. Y. 
OFFICE, 
^r/FsV^.^55 KILBY ST.^ 
BOSTON. 
CHAS. L. ANDREWS, Pres’t CHAS. J. WHITMORE, Treas’r. 
n.kVE FOR SALE 
Dittmar^s Gunpowder^ 
FOR SHOT GUNS AND RIFLES. 
SECURED BY LETTERS PATENT. 
Fixed AmmunitioQ for all varieties of Rifles and 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, fittle recoil, no loud report, high velocity. 
The best ever made in this line: not to be confounded with 
Shullze'a or English W.pod Powder, or Sawdust Powder, as it is su- 
periop to both. 
, FILE BINDER. 
Handsome cloth covered gilt lettered hinders, suitable for files of 
the Rod ard Gun. Price, $1.50. For sale at this office, and sent by 
mall on receipt of price. 
TERMS, FOUR DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE. 
Rates of Advei^ising: 
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. 
r/i^ROD AND THE GUN U the continuation of the AMERICAN 
SPORTSMAN. It is the recognized organ of the Shooting 
and Fishing Fraternity, and ha do^ibU the circu^ 
laHon of any other paper among gunners 
and fishers. 
It r|acheB first-class people and is a 
FIRST-CLASS ADVERTISING MEDIUM. 
Nothing will ever be permitted to enter its columns of a todo or 
vitiating tendency. Its articles are designed to elevate atjd 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 tiW practical points relat- 
ing to the Kennel and Fisld Manag^ent of hogs. Guns and Gun- 
Fish Breeding, and Natural History. 
A great w’ant in this country has been a paper through which 
sportsmen conld exchange their views, and discuss matters of gen- 
eral interest. To meet this, a Urge portion of spac is set apart 
for LETTERS FROM SPORTSMEN, and thosG who glance through our 
pages will ste 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 Incidents 
and Adventures, and to the articles of our large and unequaled corps 
of contributors. 
It is V ith no small pride that we arc enabled to ^note the namea 
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 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, 
Affistant Secretary of the Smitheonian Inatitnlion. 
United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. 
WashiBgton, D. C. 
PROF. THEO. GILL, 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 
PROF. O. C. MARSH, 
Yale College, New Haven. 
HON. J. D. CATON, LL. D, 
Late Chief Justice of Illinois, 
Ottawa, 111. 
DR. ELLIOTT GOUE8, 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 RIDGAVAY", 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 
DR. J. B. HOLDER, 
Curator, American Museum, Central Park, New York. 
C. J. MAYNARD, 
Newtonville, Maes. 
W. A. CONKLIN, 
Superintendent Menagerie, Central Park, New York. 
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, Penn. 
DR. JARED P. KIRTLAND, LL. D., 
East Brocliport, Ohio. 
DR. I. I. HAYES, 
The Arctic Explorer, New York. 
DR. T. S. GARLICK, 
.‘kuthor of “Fish Culture,” Bedford, Ohio. 
DR. THOS. M. BREWER, 
Boston, Mass. 
H. W. HENSHAW, 
Ornithologist of Wheeler’s Survey. 
JOHN BUMSTEAD, 
Author of “On the Wing,” Boston, Maes. 
ISAAC McLELLAN, 
The Poet Sportsman, Greenpoint, L. I. 
LIVINGSTON STONE, 
Charlestown, N. H. 
FRED. J. ABBEY & CO., 
Importers and Manufacturers of Breech and Muzzle-loading 
Gruns^ Rifles^ Pistols^ 
Fishing Tackle anti General Sporting Goods. 
Bad shooting gnus made to shoot well. Breec -loading gnns, 
central lire, at from $40.03 to $200.00. Onr own make (F. J. Abbey 
& Co.’s patent), proved superior /or dote shooting and penetration 
to any other make at the recent Ulinols gun trials, from $150.00 
TO $400.00, WITH Implements and Cases Complete. SheUt loaded 
to order. ^ 
No. 43 SO UTH CLARK STREET, 
51-tf 
CHICAGO, Illinois. 
NEW WORK BY DR. COUES. 
FIELD ORNITHOLOGY. 
A complete Manual of Instruction in all that pertains to Shooting 
Skinning and stuffing birds. Covers the gronnd most thoroughly, 
and at once becomes 
The Standard Treatise 
of Sportsmen, CoUectors 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 
CLASSJJfJCA TION AND NOMEN CLA TORE 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 ent up and used in labeling collections. Its great 
convenience will be immediately perceived. 
MANUAL and CHECK-LIST together, 8vo, cloth, I 
beautifully bound and printed ) 
CHECK- LIST, separate. In pamphlet. 75ct8. 
NATURALISTS’ 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 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 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 iitgemously 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 book for sportsmen, by a sportsman.” — Argus. 
“ Tells where to 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 
Y’ork. For sale by all Booksellers and the leading Gun- 
smiths. Price |2. Sent by. mail by the Publishers. 
Al.so for sale at the office of the American Sportsman. 
A New and Live Book on the Gnn. 
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 volame, fall of nsefnl hints con- 
cerning all that relates to Guns and shooting, and particularly in 
regard to the art of Loadins bo as to Kill. It ffiso contains a 
large number of valuable receiots relating to Sporting Matters. 
“ The directions are so plain that they cannot well tie mistaken.” 
— Turf, Field and Farm. 
“ For concise instruction as to how to shoot, to select, load, carry 
and keep a gnn in order, etc., it cannot be surpaased.”— iYestem 
Sural. 
" A modest little book, but one from the reading of which a good 
deal of the right kind of knowledge is to be gamed.''— Appleton’s 
.Journal. 
Hay 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. 
Shot &;Bar Lead 
manufacturer 
[Established, 180H1. 
Office, No. 121 Walnut Street, 
PHlIiADELPHIA, PA, 
