Sept. 7, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
319 
For Sale. 
GAME BIRDS 
Hungarian Partridges, Quail, Ring-neck Pheasants, Wild 
Turkeys, Capercailzie, Black Game, Wild Ducks, Decoys. 
Beautiful Swans, Fancy Pheasants, Peafowl, Cranes, 
Storks, Ornamental Ducks and Geese. 
* 4 Everything in the bird line 
from a Canary to an Ostrich. 44 
I am the oldest established and largest exclusive dealer 
in land and water birds in America, and have on hand 
the most extensive stock in the United States. 
G. D. TILLEY, Naturalist 
So "p" Darien, Conn. 
RAINBOW TROUT 
are well adapted to Eastern waters. Try stock¬ 
ing with some of the nice yearlings or fry from 
•ur hatchery, and you will be pleased with the 
results. 
PLYMOUTH ROCK TROUT COMPANY, 
Colburn C. Wood, Supt., Plymouth, Mass. 
Small-Mouth Black Bass 
We have the only establishment dealing in young small- 
mouth black bass commercially in the United States. Vig¬ 
orous 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 
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 FALL DELIVERY 
Best home-bred stock of Pheasants and Waterfowl, raised 
here under the best conditions. Prices reasonable and 
quoted on application. 
J. C. PHILLIPS, Windyknob Farm, Wenham, Mass 
Brook Trout For Sale 
In splendid condition. Apply 
DRUMLIN TROUT HATCHERY, Barneveld, N. Y. 
Tell your friends of the articles you like 
in Forest and Stream so they may become sub¬ 
scribers and also enjoy them. 
fortunately it is often killed under the mislead¬ 
ing name of “hen hawk.” Only about 7 per 
cent, of the food of this hawk is chicken, while 
66 per cent, of it consists of ground squirrels, 
mice and other injurious rodents, which places 
the bird decidedly among the farmer’s friends. 
The ground squirrel not only preys on the crops, 
but is a chicken thief as well, and is so sly that 
it often carries on its work entirely unnoticed. 
While most of the hawks are especially use¬ 
ful as rodent destroyers, some of them feed 
largely on insects. One of these is the little 
sparrow hawk, its food being chiefly such in¬ 
sects as grasshoppers and crickets. At certain 
seasons it also feeds largely on mice and other 
small animals. The sparrow hawk is often con¬ 
fused with the sharp-shinned hawk. It may be 
distinguished by the lighter color and black 
markings on head, by its habit of hovering in 
the air, and also by the fact that it is found out 
in the open, often on telephone poles, while the 
sharp-shinned usually remains hidden until ready 
to dart out after its prey. 
Another bird very similar to the sparrow 
hawk in its food habits is the California shrike 
or “butcher bird” as it is commonly called. Al¬ 
though this bird is placed on the black list be¬ 
cause of its habit of destroying birds, in an 
examination of 124 stomachs only two birds were 
found. On the other hand the injurious animals 
eaten far outnumber the birds, while about 83 
per cent, of its food for the year is insects. 
According to Mr. Grinnell, of the University of 
California, “as it is such a persistent destroyer 
of the Jerusalem cricket and other injurious in¬ 
sects, it is undoubtedly one of the most bene¬ 
ficial birds from the agriculturists’ standpoint.” 
Space prevents the discussion of the food 
habits of other hawks to be found in the State, 
but suffice it to say that the farmer who pro¬ 
tects all members of this family, with the ex¬ 
ception of the harmful species named, will get 
more than “value received,” by seeing a marked 
decrease in the rodent pests on his farm. 
Taxidermists. 
J. KANNOFSKY. 
PRACTICAL GLASS BLOWER 
and manufacturer of artificial eyes for birds, animals and manu¬ 
facturing purposes a specialty. Send for prices. All kinds of 
heads and skulls for furriers and taxidermists 369 Canal 
Street, New York. 
Please mention “Forestand Stream.’’ 
SAVE YOUR TROPHIES 
Write _for 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 
PUBLISHER’S NOTICE 
The Index for Volume LXXVIII. of Forest 
and Stream, covering the issues for six months 
from January i to June 30, 1912, is ready for 
distribution and will be sent free on application. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
127 Franklin Street New York 
The aging of a cocktail is as 
Wants and Exchanges. 
YYANTED —Several hundred Silver Fish each month, 
not less than four inches long. 
JOHN A. YOUNG, 
Care C. C. Laundry, Columbia, S. C. 
ANTI-CHIGGERINE 
An Outing Without Chiggers (Red Bugs) A Real Pleasure 
Why suffer on your outing from chiggers, when for 25c. 
you can procure an effective remedy and preventive suf¬ 
ficient for a month’s trip. 
Anti-Chiggerine prevents chiggers from getting on 
one, also allays the irritation of the bite. It is non- 
poisonous, will not injure the most delicate skin, not 
offensive to use, not sticky, no smell. Outdoor life in 
beautiful September and October is marred only by chig- 
gers. If you use Anti-Chiggerine as directed, you can 
sit on old logs or stumps, have your lunch on the grass, 
and roam the woods without discomfort from chiggers. 
Send 25c., coin or stamps, for a box by mail prepaid. 
ANTI-CHIGGERINE COMPANY 
1800 S. Broadway.St. Louis, Mo. 
Chas. D. Barney Co. 
BANKERS AND BROKERS 
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CUCKOO FED BY HEDGE SPARROW AND 
WREN. 
One day in July I went to watch some hedge 
sparrows feed a young cuckoo seventeen days 
old. As I was watching I noticed that there 
was a wren’s nest some six yards away in the 
same fence, and that the young were getting 
feathers by their cries. After some twenty 
minutes it dawned on me that only one wren 
was going to the wren’s nest, and that the other 
was helping the hedge sparrows to feed the 
cuckoo. I had my glasses with me, and believe 
that the cock wren was feeding the cuckoo. 
Shortly afterward I was joined by three of the 
boys, and together we made certain that only 
two, wrens were present. We made an opening 
round the nest containing the cuckoo, and put a 
screen to protect the bird from the sun, and 
took it in turns to watch it being fed, using the 
glasses, about ten yards away. The wren came 
on an average between from two and a half to 
three minutes. The hedge sparrows were more 
shy and refused to come while the boys were 
there, but remained hopping about a cross fence 
some thirty yards away. My interpretation of the 
strange affair is this: The wrens always entered 
the hedge to get to their nest about a yard to 
the left of where the cuckoo is situated. They 
then passed along the fence to their own nest. 
As one of them passed, the cuckoo heard it 
and clamored for food and got it from the 
compassionate wren, who afterward kept on 
feeding it.—J. H. Owen, in London Field. 
necessary to perfect flavor 
as the aging of wine or whisky. 
The delicious flavor and aroma of 
Club Cocktails 
is due not alone to the precise 
blending of the choicest liquors 
obtainable, but to the fact that 
they are softened to mellowness 
by aging before bottling. 
Manhattan, Martini and other 
standard blends, bottled, ready/ 
to serve through cracked ice. 
rerji Refuse Substitutes. 
AT ALL DEALERS. 
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/ ^Hartford New York 
