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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Aug. ii, 1906. 
Tajeiderm ists. 
For Sale. 
J. KANNOFSKY. 
PRACTICAL GLASS BLOWER 
and Manufacturer of 
Artificial eyes for birds, animals and manufacturing pur¬ 
poses a specialty. Send for prices. All kinds of skulls for 
the fur trade. 369 Canal St., New York. 
Please mention Forest and Stream. 
SAVE YOUR TROPHIES. 
'COrite for our Illustrated Catalogue. 
“Heads and Horns.” 
It gives directions for preparing and preserving Skins, 
Antlers, etc. Also prices for Heads and Rugs, Birds and 
Fish, and all kinds of work in Taxidermy. 
Ward’s Natural Science Establishment, 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
ROWLAND, 
TAXIDERMIST, 
A specialty in mounting Moose, Elk, Caribou and Deer 
heads. Call and examine work. 
No. 182 SIXTH AVENUE. 
Tel. 4205 Chelsea. Near 13th St. NEW YORK 
with the 
Heads, 
FRED SAUTER, Taxidermist. 
Established i 860 . 
FormerlyNo. 3 
No. William St., 
Removed to 
42 Bleecker St., 
cor. Elm St., 
will continue to 
please customers 
best durable work. Also carry large assortment of Game 
Rugs and attractive groups, for sale and to rent. 
Manual of the Canvas Canoe. 
By F. R. Webb (“Commodore”). Many illustra¬ 
tions of designs and plans of canvas canoes 
and their parts. Two large, full-sized work¬ 
ing (24x38) drawings in a pocket in a cover. 
Cloth. 115 pages. Price, $1.25. 
This interesting manual of how to build, cruise 
and live in a canvas canoe is written by one of the 
most enthusiastic of the older generation of canoe¬ 
ists, who has had a long experience of cruising 
on the Shenandoah River, and of building the 
boats best adapted to such river cruising. With 
the help of this volume, aided by its abundant 
plans and illustrations, any boy or man who has 
a little mechanical skill can turn out for himself 
at trifling expense a canoe alike durable and 
beautiful. 
Contents: Practical Construction. Cost. Specifica¬ 
tions. Working Plans and Patterns. Putting on the 
Canvas. Painting. Finishing. Camp Equipment. Hints 
on Cruising and Camping. Hints on Camp Cooking. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Book of the Black Bass. 
Comprising its complete scientific and life history, to¬ 
gether with a practical treatise on angling and fly¬ 
fishing, and a full description of tools, tackle and im¬ 
plements. By James A. Henshall, M.D. Illustrated. 
Cloth, 470 pages. Price, $3. 
Dr. Henshall’s monograph is the standard work on the 
black bass and all that relates to it. 
Small-Mouth Black Bass 
We have the only establishment dealing in young small-mouth 
black bass commercially in the United States. Vigorous young 
bass in various sizes ranging from advanced fry to 3 and 4-inch 
fingerlings for stocking purposes. 
Waramaug Small-Mouth Black Bass Hatchery. 
Correspondence invited. Send for circulars. Address 
HENRY W. BEEMAN, New Preston, Conn. 
BROOK TROUT FOR SALE. 
We have constantly on hand 
fine supply of Brook Trout, all 
sizes for stocking purposes. Al¬ 
so for table use at 75c. a pound 
Visitors privileged to catch owr 
trout. 
PARAblSE BROOK 
TROUT CO., Parkside, Pa., Henryville Railroad Station 
BROOK TROUT. 
Eggs, fry, yearlings and two-year-olds, for stocking 
brooks and lakes. Address NEW ENGLAND TROUT 
FARM, Plympton, Mass. 
BROOK TROUT. 
It will pay you to correspond with me before buying 
eggs, fry or yearlings in any quantity. I guarantee a 
safe delivery anywhere. Crystal Spring Trout Farm. 
L. B. HANDY, So. Wareham, Mass. 
BROOK TROUT 
of all ages for stocking 
brooks and lakes. Brook 
trout eggs in any quantity, warranted delivered anywhere 
in fine condition. Correspondence solicited. 
THE PLYMOUTH ROCK TROUT CO. 
Plymouth, Mass. 
FOR SALE—BROOK TROUT.—FINE, HEALTHY 
Fish of all sizes. Eyed eggs in season. Warranted de¬ 
livered anywhere, as represented. Correspondence 
solicited. BAY SIDE TROUT FARM (A. B. Savary), 
East Wareham, Mass. 
THE BROOKDALE TROUT CANNOT BE BEAT 
for stocking ponds and streams. For the next few 
weeks we will make a very low price on young fry and 
large fish. Also fly-fishing. 
BROOKDALE TROUT CO., Kingston, Mass. 
QUAIL AND PHEASANTS.—Fifty pair quail, $1-50 
pair; 1000 ringneck pheasants, $1.40 each; wild swans, 
$30 pair; Reeves’ pheasants, $9 each; Mongolian pheas¬ 
ants, $2.25 each. U. S. Pheasantry, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 6 
RAINBOW TROUT. 
We offer 100,000 rainbow fingerlings, ready for delivery 
in October and November, for stocking private ponds, 
lakes and streams. Low price. Correspondence solicited. 
SPRING BROOK TROUT CO., Kalamazoo, Mich. 
Live Game for Stocking Game 
Preserves and Parks. 
Wild caught Hungarian partridges, pheasants, 
hares, roe deer, delivery November-February. 
From my park I can offer 20 strongest Hun¬ 
garian red deer, 50 fallow deer, 12 axis deer, 20 
roe deer, 12 Llamas, flamingoes, pelicans, cranes, 
white storks, rheas; 30 pairs of white and black 
swans; 10 pairs black-necked swans; 100 pairs 
fancy ducks, as Mandarins, Carolinas, widgeons, 
teals, pintails, wild geese, white and blue pea¬ 
fowl. Fancy pheasants: Golden, silver, common, 
Reeves’, Amherst, versicolor, Elliot, Soemmer¬ 
ing, Elliot, peacock, Swinhoe, Argus, Melanote 
pheasants. During the season October-Decem- 
ber, live capercailzies and black game. Wild ani¬ 
mals for zoo and menageries—lions, leopards, 
European lynxes, 100 foxes, etc. For prices and 
particulars apply 
JULIUS MOHR, Jr., 
ULM a. D., - - GERMANY 
Establishment for Export of Wild Animals and 
Live Game. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Ag-ent for the U.S. A., Mr.R.A. Wenz, Yardley, Pa. 
A POISONOUS VARIETY OF TUNA. 
We hear so much of the tuna fishing at Santa 
Catalina, on the coast of California—it is 
rubbed into us ad nauseam —that the average 
person not acquainted with the tuna would think 
that it was to be found nowhere else. As a 
matter of fact, there is scarcely any other fish 
which has such a world-wide habitat, and I have 
caught tuna up to 300 pounds in such widely 
apart places as the Bay of Panama, Torres 
Straits, Wake’s Island (90° 30" N. Long., 166 0 
30" E.), Guam (in the Ladrones), all over 
Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia, and inside, 
as well as outside, the Great Barrier Reef of 
Australia. To the American whalemen who 
frequented the Pacific thirty years ago the tuna 
was well known, and was called “buck albicore,” 
or “bull albicore.” About the low-lying islands 
of the Equatorial Pacific it is very plentiful, and 
attains a huge size and weight—350 pounds to 
400 pounds. The people of the Tokelau (or 
Union Group) in the South Pacific call it 
“Takuo,” the Gilbert Islanders by another name, 
which I cannot now recall, and catch it by en¬ 
ticing it alongside their canoes with a live bait 
of flying fish, and then slipping a running bow¬ 
line over it. The natives of Savage Island 
(Niue) use a hook, baited either with an octopus 
or a large flying fish. Early dawn or just be¬ 
fore sunset is the best time for tuna in the 
Pacific Islands, but at the Bampton Shoal and 
the Chesterfield Reefs, near New Caledonia, I 
have caught tuna in a rough sea, with the sun 
high and bright, and in less than ten fathoms 
of water. 
In the straits that separate the great islands 
of New Ireland and New Britain (Tombara and 
Biara) there is a distinct variety of the tuna. 
It has gill markings of a deep orange color, all 
the lower fins orange tipped, with bright red 
spots, some of which appear on the belly, and 
run along irregularly to the throat. The roof 
of the mouth is dark red, with vellow streaks 
running fore and aft—a sure sign that fish is 
poisonous. 
Some time in 1880 I was piloting a Norwegian 
barque through the straits to the Duke of York 
Islands, when during a calm I caught one of 
these fish. It weighed about 60 pounds, and 
when it was placed on the deck I immediately 
noticed its peculiar coloring, opened its mouth, 
and told the captain that I thought it was a 
poisonous fish. My boat’s crew of natives 
backed me up, and said that they knew for 
certain that any fish with those particular red 
and yellow streaks in the mouth was poisonous. 
But the Norwegian skipper was incredulous, and 
protested most energetically when I told my 
men to throw the fish overboard, and his crew 
made unpleasant remarks about my wishing to 
deprive them of a feed of wholesome fresh fish. 
My warnings were disregarded. The captain 
said that he had often bought and eaten exactly 
the same kind of fish at Coupang and Amboyna. 
So the tuna was cut and cooked, and served 
fore and aft for supper. Every one of the 
Norwegians except the second mate made a 
hearty meal, that officer remarking to me that 
he would “wait and see how the others got on.” 
The . results were disastrous. Within an hour 
all who had eaten of the fish were seriously ill 
and suffering excruciating pains, attended with 
excessive vomiting and purging, and before mid¬ 
night the carpenter died. The appearance of 
the sufferers was distressing—a ghastly pallor 
of the features alternating with purple blotches, 
and violent contortions of the extremities. Dur¬ 
ing the next three days my boat’s crew and I 
had an anxious time, attending the sick men, 
and taking the barque through a dangerous 
channel. On the second day a boy died, ap¬ 
parently from exhaustion caused by continuous 
vomiting. The second mate and I then brought 
the ship to an anchor in a little bay on the coast 
of New Ireland, and I sent my boat off to 
Mioko (the settlement on Duke of York’s 
Island) with a letter to the captain of the Ger¬ 
man cruiser Moewe, asking him to send his 
surgeon. Unfortunately, the warship had left, 
and when the boat returned without the doctor 
the situation became serious, the captain and two 
seamen being in an alarming condition, and all 
