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April 4, 1914 
FOREST AND STREAM 
Vol. LXXXII. No. 14 
Angling at San Souci.By Chas. F. Holder 433 
Another for Old Camper. 445 
Down The Crow to Lake Lavieille. . . . By T. M. Tobin 43 7 
Down the Tomorrow.By O. W. Smith 440 
Editorial . 446 
Fishing in the Wilderness.By W. R. Gilbert 443 
Fur, Fin and Feather. 448 
Large Mouth Bass Within Shadow of N. Y. City. 
By Herbert Janes 442 
Opening of Trout Season. 455 
Small Talk About Rods for Fly Fishing. 
By Theodore L. Gordon 435 
Spring Fishing Prospects in Canada. 44 7 
The Steelhead Vs. the Chinook.By W. M. Keil 439 
Trap Shooting .. . 449 
IN CENTRAL PARK. 
New York, March 15, 1914. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
I think your suggestion to report the arrival of 
the spring birds is an excellent one, and, as a 
bird-lover, I shall be glad to comply with your 
request. 
To-day I made a thorough search of Central 
Park in the hope of discovering a robin, a grackie 
or a song sparrow. I found none of these, but I 
did find a fox sparrow. It was hopping about 
beneath the rhododendrons, 1 round the jincos 
in full song, which is a sign that they are about 
to retire north. The merry cardinal was also 
“tuning up” for the spring chorus. 
It may be of interest to some of your readers 
to compare my dates of early arrivals with their 
own, so I shall append some of them. These are 
all for the first arrivals of the species in Central 
Park, New York City, as per my own observa¬ 
tion : 
Robin, March 20, ’09; March 18, To; March 
11, Ti; March 20, ’12; March 17, ’13. Purple 
grackie, March 5, Ti; March 17, ’12; March 16, 
’13. Phoebe, April 3, To; April 9, Ti; March 20, 
’12; March 22, ’13. Fox sparrow, March 20, ’09; 
March 18, To; March 12, Ti; March 17, ’12; 
March 15, ’14. Song sparrow, March 5, Ti; 
March 10, ’12; March 12, ’13. Belted kingfisher, 
April 9, Ti; April 19, ’12; April 5, ’13. Swamp 
sparrow, April 3, To; April 9, ’12. Chipping 
sparrow, April 18, TI; April 16, ’12. 
I have never seen a blue bird in Central Park, 
and I would be interested to know whether any 
of your readers have found it there. 
ELMER RUSSELL GREGOR. 
The 
Angling 
Season 
“Forest and Stream” this week is given 
up largely to fishing. We have tried to 
take care of the angler during the winter, 
but he is now coming into his own, and 
deserves all the attention that can be de¬ 
voted to him. The winter is over; at least 
the almanac of the angler says so. He has 
been busy for months overhauling his 
tackle. Now the streams are casting off 
their icy armor that he may cast the silken 
or enameled line, the deceptive fly and 
even the “garden hackle” where they will 
do the most good. Angling is an ancient 
and an honorable art. From the time 
when Polyphemus “bobbed for whales”— 
and being a Cyclops he had only one eye 
wherewith to see and bob—to the present, 
men have been made better and have 
learned much of good in the world by 
angling. If, so be it, you do not fish, at 
least go walking in the country during the 
springtime. You will gain much knowledge 
that schools do not teach you. Should it 
happen that you can neither go angling 
or walking, you may find “Forest and 
Stream” a substitute, in the few whiffs of 
the fresh outdoors it brings to you. 
WILD AMERICAN TURKEYS IN SCOTLAND. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The charmingly illustrated article on wild 
turkey shooting in your issue for February 7th, 
reminds me that there is a colony of wild Ameri¬ 
can turkeys in Scotland of well nigh forty years 
standing. About thirty-five years ago a number 
of wild turkeys were emancipated on the estate 
of the Duke of Argyle at Inveraray, where ex¬ 
ists the largest forest in the County of Argyle. 
This habitat proving congenial the species mul¬ 
tiplied. I have seen as many as twenty feeding 
on grassy plateaus in the woods. They are not so 
shy as those of the wild west. When driving 
along the highway which passes through the 
forest I have often seen in late spring and early 
summer the hens, followed by broods, feeding at 
the roadside. 
A pair of moose, some muskrats and Canadian 
geese were brought hither about the same time. 
The female moose died soon after arrival, and the 
male was subsequently sent to England. The 
rats were liberated on the banks of a pond in the 
forest which had been prepared for their recep¬ 
tion, but the attempt to acclimatize them was not 
successful. The geese, however, survived, and 
their descendants—inferior in size to their ances¬ 
tors—may be seen floating on Loch Fryne, or 
grazing on the green meads by the shore. 
_ D. A. M. 
ROBINS REACH FOND DU LAC. 
Fond Du Lac, Wis., March 16, 1914. 
Editor Forest and Stream'. 
Saw first robins this a. m. Several bunches of 
geese have arrived. Weather very fine. 
C. F. LARZELERE. 
