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ants; of other pheasants and grouse sent to 
Oregon by Judge Denny; and also comments on 
the native grouse. Beautiful reproductions from 
photographs of these birds embellish the book, 
which is a valuable addition to the literature 
bearing on our native and introduced game birds. 
The Red Deer of Exmoor; with notes on those 
who hunted them, from Robert D’Auber- 
ville (1070) to Robert Arthur Sanders 
(1906), by Archibald Hamilton. Cloth, 363 
pages, illustrated, $2.50. London, Horace Cox. 
Opening with a description of the ancient but 
still beautiful royal forest of Exmoor, the cen¬ 
ter of staghunting in England, Mr. Hamilton 
weaves ancient legends and modern hunting 
stories into a narrative that is mainly historical 
but always pleasing. Natural history, hunting 
lore, records of trophies, modern and ancient, 
methods of hunting and the men and horses and 
dogs connected with it—all are treated fully but 
interestingly. 
Books Received: “Camp-Fires on Desert and 
Lava,” by William T. Hornaday; Charles Scrib¬ 
ner's Sons. “Parables from Nature,” by Mrs. 
Alfred Gatty; G. P. Putnam’s Sons. “Animal 
Life,” by F. W. Gamble; E. P. Dutton & Co. 
“Rough Riders of the Pampas,” by Capt. F. T. 
Brereton; PI. M. Caldwell Co. “The White 
Trail,” by Alexander MacDonald; H. M. Cald¬ 
well Co. 
Wise Domestic Animals. 
Berlin, N. Y., Oct. 31. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: Gypsy was in a sewing room with her 
mistress on an upper floor of my house in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. The dog wanted a drink and 
told of it with a bark and whine, which she al¬ 
ways used. Her mistress said, “Gypsy, there is 
water in your dish in the kitchen.. If you are 
too lazy to go downstairs, go without.” 
The day before Gypsy had been given water 
in a drinking glass in the bathroom adjoining. 
After waiting a few minutes to see if the water 
was forthcoming, Gypsy went inito the bath¬ 
room and returned with the empty egg-shell 
glass in her mouth, set it down at the side of 
her mistress, and again expressed a wish for 
water. Then it was given to her. 
Gypsy II. had two pups. While she could 
climb the fence and get out on the street, her 
pups could not. The gate swung either way. 
She would place onie paw on the lower bar 
of the gate, scratch at the latch, which she could 
just reach with the other paw, and when she 
struck it, her weight pressing on the gate would 
swing it open and she and her pups would go 
out for a run on the street. 
In this town a mare, totally blind, has a colt 
now three months old. Some weeks ago, when 
flies were more troublesome, the colt, every 
day took her mother to a shed where they could 
rest in the shade. The colt also leads its 
mother to a pool in the pasture brook for a 
drink. Going a few yards in the proper di¬ 
rection, the colt whinnies and the mare then 
goes up to it. This is repeated again and again 
until the desired place is reached. Instinct 
would scarcely make a colt of less than three 
months act as a guide to its mother. 
Rob. Saunderson. 
Reindeer in Alaska. 
The reindeer herd, which the Federal Govern¬ 
ment is experimenting with in Alaska, now num¬ 
bers almost 20,000 animals, according to a re¬ 
cent estimate. The herd is scattered. A num¬ 
ber of animals are loaned to the numerous mis¬ 
sions from the station at Unalaska, and all the 
increase from these divided herds are the prop¬ 
erty of the Eskimos who care for and train 
the deer. The Eskimos readily learn to handle 
the reindeer and love to manage the mission 
herds. 
It is many years since Dr. Sheldon Jackson 
brought the first reindeer to Unalaska, bleak and 
desolate, from the tundras of Siberia. There 
were many who scoffed at the idea of raising 
reindeer in Alaska, and even the Government 
through Congress refused to appropriate any 
funds to maintain’ the station at Unalaska. 
Later, after Dr. Jackson had spent his own for¬ 
tune in a successful attempt to raise the animal 
on the American continent, Congress did give 
a little, and now the annual appropriation for 
the maintenance of the station and missions is 
$25,000. 
The reindeer has been a boon to the natives 
of Alaska, for with the fast disappearing cari¬ 
bou and the seal there was a great scarcity of 
food. Reindeer meat is now a staple article of 
food with the natives. There has been some 
progress in the use of the reindeer as a sledge 
animal in the northern territory, but owing to 
the lack of roads and the unusually bad condition 
of the trails, the results have been anything but 
satisfactory. 
lower. The Central Provinces figure 996 is t 
lowest returned in any one of the last scv 
years. 
The Lauder Brunton treatment of snake b 
by incision and application of permanganate 
potash and the distribution of lancets continu 
It is too early yet to pronounce with any ci 
tainty as to the result of the experiment, t 
a number of favorable reports have been : 
ceived. Eight cases are reported from t 
United Provinces of the successful use of I 
Calmette’s Antivenene. In two of these ca: 
the permanganate of potash treatment was a! 
employed. 
The total number of cattle destroyed by w 
animals was 88,835 as compared with 86,467 
1906. The most remarkable increase, thou 
the local government expresses a doubt as 
the accuracy of the returns, occurred in 1 
United Provinces, where the figures rose frc 
5,972 in 1906 to 9,306. 
The number of licenses (in form 11) isst 
free of cost under the Indian Arms Act 1978, : 
the destruction of wild animals, or the prct 
tion of crops during the year was 11,796 agai 
9,357 in 1896, and the total number of licen 
of the nature in force including such as \v> 
valid from previous years, amounted to 43, 
as against 39,706 in 1906. A larger number 
these licenses was granted during the year 
each Province except Madras and the Uni 
Provinces. But in Eastern Bengal and Assi 
where the number is 3,984 as compared w 
2,299 i n 1906, the large increase is due to : 
conversion of licenses in form 8 to those t 
form 11 in the Assam valley districts. 
Deaths Due to Wild Animals. 
In a resolution issued this morning in the 
Home Department it is stated that the total 
mortality among human beings reported to be 
due to wild animals in 1907 amounted to 1,966 
compared with 2,086 in 1906, says a corre¬ 
spondent of the Asian. It is the lowest on 
record since the practice of collecting these 
statistics was initiated. The most noticeable 
variations from the figures of last year occur 
in Bengal, the United Provinces and the Central 
Provinces, while in Madras there was a com¬ 
paratively large increase from 167 to 201 in the 
number of persons killed by tigers. In Bengal 
the mortality rose from 756 in 1906 to 840. In 
the United Provinces the mortality fell from 
280 in 1906 to 159, The decrease is principally 
due to a noticeable decline in the number of 
deaths caused, by wolves in the Allahabad Di¬ 
vision. The mortality in the Central Provinces 
fell from 262 in 1906 to 174 in 1907. 
The total mortality among human beings 
caused by snake bite fell from 22,811 in 1906 to 
21,419 in 1907. So low a figure has in Bengal 
and Eastern Bengal not beeti reached since 
1897. The decrease is noticeable mainly in 
Bengal and Eastern Bengal and Assam, where 
the figures fell from 8,862 and 2,730 in 1906 to 
8,276 and 1,900 respectively in 1907. The most 
important increases occurred in Madras and 
Burma, where the figures rose from 1,527 and 
1.149 in 1906 to 1,677 and 1,348 respectively. 
The highest mortality in Bengal occurred as 
usual in the Patna Division, the number of 
deaths being 3.393 as compared with 3,636 in 
1906. The decrease in Eastern Bengal and 
Assam is attributed to the floods having been 
German Scientific Expedition. 
Vie-Consul VoiXMER, of Tsingtau, Ch: 
transmits the following: 
The German steamship Peiho has left Ho 
kong for the German possessions in the Soil 
Seas with a party of scientists, where two yell 
will be spent in research work. The expedili 
is being sent out by the Hamburg Scientific i 
stitution, and is in charge of Dr. Thilen . 
Work will be done in ethnography, zoology jl 
botany, while other branches may be taken || 
later. The Hamburg museum has a fine col j- 
tion of arms, implements and idols, so tha |t 
is hoped to make a complete South Sea col j- 
tion. The staff of the expedition consists if 
Prof. Fulleborn, an East Africa, explorer, ;| 
assistant at the institute for tropical diseases 1 
Hamburg; Dr. Duncker, of the natural hist|j/ 
museum at Hamburg; Dr. Esclie, the chief |f 
the bureau for ethnography, and Dr. Muller 3 
F. E. Hellwig. H. Vogel, an artist and pain 
who will take photographs and cinematogr 
pictures and make sketches and watercolor dr, 
ings, also accompanies the expedition. 
November. 
The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the ) 
They make one feel so awful glum, one wants to sh' 
tear; 
Yet, people now have lots of fun, and sassages and cat 
And 
skeeters 
snakes. 
do not bother one, nor is one 
afraic'' 
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