[Jan. 22, I 9 ia 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
time. Mr. Roberts has stuffed the cat's skin as 
a souvenir. 
Klyo S. Inui, the young Japanese student, who 
spent several days in this city, lectured before 
the Y. M. C. A. during the week on the sub¬ 
ject of “The East vs., the West.” Mr. Inui, it 
.will be recalled, made the journey from the 
source of the Mississippi River to its mouth in 
the Gulf alone in an 18-foot canoe. He is a 
student of the University of Michigan. In his 
lecture here he spoke of the great friendship 
between Japan and the United States. Mr. Inui 
is very fond of outdoor life, hunting and fish¬ 
ing, and on the way down the river fished a good 
deal and did some hunting. It is his intention 
to join some of the local hunting parties and 
study the game of Louisiana. He. has taken a 
number of pictures of various scenes which he 
will send to Japan. He also says he will ship 
his canoe to Japan as a curiosity, as the people 
of his country never saw a boat like it. 
The game commission has leased a game pre¬ 
serve of 94.000 acres in Avoylles parish and will 
stock it with deer, wild turkeys and Chinese 
pheasants. This is one of the largest game pre¬ 
serves in the United States and said to be prob¬ 
ably the finest and best suited for the purposes 
intended. The land belongs to the Louisiana 
Timber Company represented by C. M. Warner, 
president of the Warner Sugar Refining Com¬ 
pany, and Judge George William Ballou, both 
of New York city. The gentlemen mentioned 
signed a lease with the game commission for 
ten years. It is stipulated that the commission 
is to provide at least two wardens to protect the 
timber and prevent fires. The representatives 
of the company were introduced to Commis¬ 
sioner Miller by State Senator W. H. Peterman, 
of Louisiana, and the arrangements made for 
the lease which becomes effective at once. Red 
River runs through the land and the pioperty 
contains some of the finest timber in the entile 
country consisting of cypress, oak, pine, hard 
wood and various species of trees. The reserve 
contains now large numbers of deer, wild tur¬ 
keys, quail, doves, rabbits, squirrels, fur animals 
and almost every description of game. 
Mr. Miller says that arrangements will be 
made to trap raccoons and minks on the pre¬ 
serve and to stock the land with otter and beaver 
near the Red River. Plans will be made also 
to kill off the wildcats and other animals which 
prey on Chinese pheasants and wild turkeys. 
The commission will make an inspection of this 
new preserve in the next few days and take 
pictures of several scenes on the property. The 
commission is delighted with this new presene 
and considers itself in great luck to obtain it. 
One of the good features in this connection is 
the fact that this large tract of land has been 
obtained without expense to the State of Louis¬ 
iana. Senator Peterman deserves a great deal 
of the credit, as he has taken much interest in 
the subject and assisted in many ways. 
Preparations are about completed f or the hold¬ 
ing of the big game commissioners’ convention 
in° New Orleans, on Feb. 5. A large number 
of commissioners are expected from all parts 
of the United States and the attendance will 
probably aggregate 200. The delegates will be 
here in time to witness the annual carnival or 
Mardi Gras. Tt is expected that one of the 
leading to^Vs wi 1 ! be tb e oromr reports of 
wardens on the number of game killed, and the 
best method for making daily and weekly re¬ 
ports. Various interesting subjects will come 
before the convention for discussion. The ques¬ 
tion of more uniform laws governing hunting 
and fishing and the prices for licenses and simi¬ 
lar topics will be discussed. 
Reports from the various hunters and game 
wardens are to the effect that many ducks, wild 
geese, turkeys and deer have been killed during 
the past ten days. The weather has been almost 
ideal for hunting. The cold has been rather un¬ 
usual and many hunting parties have taken ad¬ 
vantage of it. The weather has been too cold 
for fishing. Those returning from Lake Cather¬ 
ine, the Rigolets, Chef Menteur on the Louis¬ 
ville & Nashville Railroad, and from the Bara- 
taria section and the Grand Isle Railroad, report 
much success and great sport in bagging ducks 
and wild geese. Several large bucks were killed. 
Commissioner Frank M. Miller has just re¬ 
turned from a trip over a portion of Vermillion 
parish, Vermillion Bay, and the Gulf section. 
He says there are millions of ducks and wild 
geese in that section and he believes no place 
in the world contains so many of these birds. 
They are in the marsh grasses and often one 
can pick them up with his hands. Some of these 
ducks remain the entire year and raise their 
young. The place is almost inaccessible to hun¬ 
ters, and nature seems to have provided a spot 
for the ducks and geese where they will be al¬ 
most unmolested. F. G. G. 
Unusual Wildfowl in Currituck. 
During the past shooting season several un¬ 
usual wildfowl have been killed at different 
points on Currituck Sound. Of these one of 
the oddest is a large Canada goose, killed by a 
member of the Princess Anne Club, Virginia. 
This goose is practically wholly white and by 
many might be called an albino. As a mattei 
of fact it is rather a bleached specimen. The 
whole body, breast and lower neck are white, 
faintly washed or clouded here and there with 
pale brownish. The neck, which in an ordinary 
specimen would be black with white throat and 
cheek patch, is pale brown, washed here and 
there with hoary, but the throat patch is plainly 
visible. The feet and bill are brown. The eyes 
were dark. 
Another very interesting specimen is a tiny 
Hutchins goose, said to have been killed Dec. 
20, 1909, by Mr. Cheney, of Hartford, Conn., on 
the grounds of the Currituck Club. It is a 
beautiful bird, extremely small, but otherwise 
apparently exactly like the Canada goose. 
A hybrid mallard-blackduck killed on the 
grounds of the Narrows Island Club is interest¬ 
ing because its plumage shows very equally the 
characters of both parents. 1 he head js some¬ 
thing like that of a blackduck, but with a broad 
strip of mallard green on either side. The 
breast is that of a mallard, whi’e the lower breast 
and belly show strong blackduck characters. 
It has long been known that a flock of snow 
geese have their winter home on the beach of 
Currituck Sound, south of the lighthouse, and 
north of the grounds of the Currituck Club. A 
pair of these were killed recently by Wm. P. 
Clyde, of the Currituck Club. 
All these birds are to be seen at the taxider¬ 
mist shon of Thomas Rowland, 182 S'xth avenue, 
New York. 
Massachusetts F. and G. P. Association 
Boston, Mass., Jan. 15 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: At the annual meeting, held on the 
12th, officers were elected as follows: 
President, Salem D. Charles, Vice-Presidents, 
George \V. Wiggin, James R. Reed, William S. 
Hinman, Homer L. Bigelow, Alpheus R. Brown, 
Francis B. Crowninshield, Joseph T. Herrick, B. 
Varnum How, Gardner M. Lane, Nathaniel C. 
Nash, Frank E. Peabody, Dudley L. Pickman, 
Maurice H . Richardson, Adelbert D. Thayer, 
Stephen M. Weld, John S. Ames, Heber Bishop, 
A. George Bullock, Frank Fallon, Henry Horn- 
blower, A. B. F. Kinney, William A. Morse, 
Charles H. Nowell, George M. Poland, Charles 
E. Stratton, W. C. Woodward; Librarian, Ed¬ 
ward W. Branigan; Treasurer, Rollin Jones; 
Secretary, Henry Hastings Kimball; Fund Com¬ 
mittee, George W. W iggin, Ivers S. Adams, 
Adelbert D. Thayer; Committee on the Ivers- 
Whitney-Adams Fund, Ivers S. Adams, Heber 
Bishop, George W. Wiggin; Membership Com¬ 
mittee, Thomas H. Hall, B. V. How, Richard 
V. Joyce; Executive Committee, Sa’em D. 
Charles, Chairman ex-officio; George W. Wig¬ 
gin, Ivers W. Adams, B. Varnum How, William 
P. Wharton, Charles M. Bryant, Heber Bishop, 
M. A. Morris, A. R. Brown, Rollin Jones, Na¬ 
thaniel C. Nash, Henry Hastings Kimball, ex- 
officio. , 
Part of the annual report of the secretary 
follows: 
At a meeting of the legislative committee of 
the association on Jan. 5, 1909, it was voted to 
ratify the action of the conference held in De¬ 
cember in reference to the hunting season for 
upland birds, the establishment of bird sanc¬ 
tuaries, the change of the season for rabbit 
shooting, and the action taken in regard to the 
trout hatcheries and trout stocking; to make the 
bag limit three partridges and four quail for a 
day’s shooting, and twenty-five of each for the 
season; to pass over the question of change of 
season for ducks, geese and shore birds with¬ 
out action. 
Hearings before the committee on fisheries and 
game opened soon after the organization of the 
Legislature on several bills drawn by President 
Charles and by many other persons to the num¬ 
ber of forty-three in all. 
The following changes and additions to the 
game laws were made by the Legislature of 
1909: 
The hunters’ license law was modified by pro¬ 
viding a $1 license for non-residents owning real 
estate assessed at not less than $500; making the 
open season for quail, woodcock and ruffed 
grouse Oct. 15-Nov. 15; permitting sale at any 
season under permits from the commissioners of 
pheasants artificially propagated ; permitting resi¬ 
dents to hunt on their own land used for agri¬ 
cultural purposes; making the fine for illegal 
use of a ferret $50; providing that State reser¬ 
vations and parks shall be bird and game 
refuges; an amendment of the law relating to 
the killing of deer injuring crops; prohibiting 
spring shooting of ducks, geese and brant. Em¬ 
powering the Governor to proclaim a close sea¬ 
son for game in times of drouth; making the 
rabbit season Oct. 15-March 1; prohibiting 
spring shooting of shore birds and protecting 
swans at all seasons. 
The executive committee held its first meet- 
