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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Aug. 14, 1909. 
"Resorts for Sportsmen. 
BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 
Big-game hunting parties thoroughly and economically 
equipped. 
ELEPHANT. LION. BUFFALO. 
ANTELOPE. RHINOCEROS. 
Tell us when you want to start, and we do the rest. 
Write for booklet to NEWLAND TARLTON & CO., 
LTD. (head office, Nairobi, B. E. Africa), 166 Piccadilly, 
London, England. Cables: Wapagazi; London. 
BIG GAME SHOOTING IN 
BRITISH EAST AFRICA 
Outfitters of Shooting and Scientific Expedi¬ 
tions. We are the only firm in the country, who 
through eleven years’ of existence, their large 
and varied experience and connections, can 
GUARANTEE every sportsman, who is an 
average shot, within six weeks 
100 Head of Mixed Game 
providing our advice is followed. Terms and 
Catalogues on application. All communications 
should be addressed to the Principal, 
CHAS. A. HEYER, M. E. A. U. N. H. S., 
Nairobi, British East Africa. 
Telegraphic address, HEYER, NAIROBI, 
A. B. C. Code, 5th Edition. 
NEWFOUNDLAND 
Excellent Salmon and Trout Fishing; also Caribou 
shooting. Tents, guides, boats provided. Write 
BUNGALOW, Grand Lake, Newfoundland. 
NEWFOUNDLAND 
Salmon fishing and caribou hunting, best obtainable. 
Guides and camp outfit supplied. BAY ST. GEORGE 
HOTEL, Stephenville Crossing, Newfoundland. 
NEW BRUNSWICK 
Sportsmen.—If you are planning a hunting trip this fall 
and want good heads, try our camps on the Serpentine, 
headwaters of the Tobique River. A noted country for 
big game. Moose, Caribou and Deer plentiful. For par¬ 
ticulars write to LEWIS & FALDING, Perth, Victoria 
County, New Brunswick. 
Grand Island Forest and Game Preserve 
An island containing 13,600 acres, located in Munising 
Bay, Lake Superior, two and one-half miles from Munising, 
Michigan. Efficient boat service between island and mainland. 
Stocked with Caribou, Elk, Moose, and various species of Deer 
and Birds. Located in the upper peninsula of Michigan, 
where fishing and hunting abounds. Excellent rail and water 
connections. Hotel Williams and Cottages with all modern con¬ 
veniences, located on the island, opens for business June 20th. 
Terms Reasonable 
Additional Cottages, on Grand Island, on the shores of Lake 
Superior, furnished for housekeeping, for rent by the week, 
month or season. Lots, on which to build cottages, for lease. 
For illustrated booklet, containing full information, apply to 
THE CLEVELAND-CLIFFS IRON CO. 
Land Department Munising, Michigan 
“THE HOMESTEAD,” Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., N. Y. 
Good bass and trout fishing, three miles from R.R. Daily, 
$1.50; weekly, $7 to $9. Children, $5. Robert Heubner. 
HUNTING IN AFRICA 
Shooting parties outfitted and guided in 
Rhodesia. Best English and American refer¬ 
ences. Abundance of Big Game. Address 
WILLIAM FINAUGHTY, JR., 
Bulawayo, Rhodesia. 
BIG TROUT 
IN PLENTY 
in the 10 square miles my Antlers Camps cover. Com¬ 
fortable individual or party lodges; fine table; telephone. 
Special rates to summer visitors and large parties. Book¬ 
let free. S. A. POTTER, Jo Mary Lake, Norcross, Me. 
Property for Sale. 
FISH HATCHERY FOR SALE or LEASE 
Munising, Michigan. 
Located at railroad station of Munising Railway Co., 
near Lake Superior. Hatchery fully equipped for hatch¬ 
ing and raising fish. Eight outdoor ponds. Keeper’s 
dwelling furnished for housekeeping. For full particulars 
address 
THE CLEVELAND-CLIFFS IRON CO. 
Land Department Negaunee, Michigan 
BERKSHIRE TROUT HATCHERY FOR SALE. 
140 acres. Fine forest. Never failing mountain springs. Ponds 
with exceptional natural conditions for trout raising. Well 
stocked with 50,000 fish. Three houses with baths and modern 
conveniences. Seven miles from Great Barrington. Good 
roads. Address J. S. SCULLY, Great Barrington, Mass. 
XOants and Ejcchanges. 
SPORTSMEN! HUNTERS! TRAPPERS! 
I will pay good prices for all kinds of live wild water 
fowl, either wing-tipped or trapped birds. 
G. D. TILLEY, Darien, Conn. 
Sam Lovers Boy. 
By Rowland E. Robinson. Price, $1.25. 
Sam Lovel’s Boy is the fifth of the series of Danvis 
books. No one has pictured the New Englander with 
so much insight as has Mr. Robinson. Sam Lovel and 
Huldah are two of the characters of the earlier books 
in the series, and the boy is young Sam, their son, who 
grows up under the tuition of the coterie of friends that 
we know so well, becomes a man just at the time of the 
Civil War, and carries a musket in defense of what he 
believes to be the right. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
WILDFOWL SHOOTING. 
Containing Scientific and Practical Descriptions of 
Wildfowl; Their Resorts Habits, Flights, and the Most 
Successful Method of Hunting Them. Treating of the 
selection of guns for wildfowl shooting, how to load, aim 
and to use them; decoys and the proper manner of 
using them; blinds, how and where to construct them; 
boats, how to use and build them scientifically; re¬ 
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pages. Price, in cloth, $1.50; half morocco, $2.50. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Hunting Without a Gun, 
And. other papers. By Rowland E. Robinson. With 
illustrations from drawings by Rachael Robinson. 
Price, $2.00. 
This is a collection of papers on different themes con¬ 
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and now for the first time brought together. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
The Pistol and Revolver. 
By A. L. A. Himmelwright, President U. S. Revolver 
Association, Director New York State Rifle Asso- 
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A handy pocket-size volume of 157 pages of practical 
information covering the entire subject of Pistol and 
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the 1908 Revolver Regulations and Practice of the United 
States Army, the United States Navy and the National 
Guard; the Annual Championship Matches and Revised 
Rules and Regulations of the United States Revolver 
Association, etc. Besides being a useful, practical hand¬ 
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prove particularly valuable for beginners. 
Contents: Historical: Arms—Military, Target, Pocket; 
Ammunition; Sights; Position; Target Shooting; Re¬ 
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Ladies; Clubs and Ranges; Hints to Beginners; Selec¬ 
tion of Arms; Manipulation; Position and Aiming; Tar¬ 
get Practice; Cleaning and Care of Arms; Reloading 
Ammunition—primers, shells, bullets, powders, reloading. 
Appendix.—Annual Championship Matches of the U. 5. 
Revolver Association; Rules Governing Matches, etc. 
Records of the U. S. Revolver Association. 
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referring to the goldfinch, and “green lintie” 
when speaking of the greenfinch. In some 
shires chaffinches are known as “shilfas,” in 
others as “tree Unties,” and in others again by 
such names as “chic,” “chaffie,” or “boldie.” 
The linnet also can boast of quite a bevy of 
titles, among them being “rose-lintie,” from the 
coloring on the breast, “whin-lintie,” from its 
partiality to whin bushes, and again merely 
“linnet.” That fine cage-bird, the twite, is 
spoken of in Scotland as the “heather lintie,” 
“hill-linnet,” or “yellow-nibbed lintie.” The 
bullfinch is the “bullie,” and the corn-bunting 
is the “buntlin.” In the case of the yellow- 
hammer, one hears of “yite,” “yeldie,” “skite,” 
“yalla-yorlin,” and a few more. Every district 
gives its own peculiar title. 
Reed-buntings figure in local lists as “moss 
sparrows,” and sometimes as “ring-fowl.” A 
bird fairly numerous in Scotland during winter 
is the snow-bunting. Some students assert it 
has bred in Scotland, and the writer has seen 
an egg shell, said to be that of the snow-bunt¬ 
ing, got in Kincardineshire. Be that as it may, 
the bird, while here in winter, is broadly known 
as the “snow-flake,” .and in some places the 
name “north-cock” is applied. “Laverock.” 
“lerik,” or simply “lark,” denotes the skylark; 
“pyet,” or “clashpyet,” stands for the magpie; 
“kae,” and “kae-watte,” for the jack-daw. 
“Huddie craw” represents the hooded crow, 
while the word “corbie” may mean any bird 
from a raven to a rook. The welcome notes of 
the cuckoo are hailed as the “sang o’ the 
gowk,” but one often hears the bird spoken of j 
as the “gowk-oo,” from the notes it utters. All 
the owls are classed as “ools” or “oolets,” but 
the long-eared species come in for a special 
name, and are described as “long-horned.” 
Among the hawks one finds both the pere¬ 
grine falcon and the hen harrier known as 
“blue hawks.” Then again the sparrow-hawk is , 
occasionally the “spier-hawk,” and the kite the 
“glade” or “gled.” One seldom hears the 
wood-pigeon spoken of unless as the “cushie- 
doo,” nor the partridge by any other name than 
“pertrick.” On the hills red grouse are simply 
“muir-fowl,” black grouse are “black cock,” and 
capercailzie are “capper.” Down on the low 
ground the landrail may be listened to as the 
“corn-craik,” “corn-scrak,” or “corn-scraich.” 
Alongside the landrail the lapwing often nests. 
The boys hunt for the eggs in springtime, but 
one never hears these juveniles speak of the 
bird by its English name. They say “wallochie 
weet,” “tenchet,” “peeweet,” or “wallop.”—A. 
Nicol Simpson, F.Z.S., in the Scottish Field. 
SUPERSTITIONS CONNECTED WITH ' 
THE CUCKOO. 
There is a popular belief that whatever one 
is doing when first one hears the cuckoo that 
will be what one will most frequently do 
during the year. 
In many parts of Scotland and in the north¬ 
ern counties of England, people turn their 
money in their pockets on hearing the first 
call of the cuckoo, as this, they say, insures a 
lucky year. In the counties bordering in Wales 
not only do they do this, but they also have a 
wish at the same time, this wish being kept 
secret of course. To have a gold coin in one’s 
pocket when the cuckoo’s call is first heard 
insures good luck for the rest of the year. 
The German peasants declare that after St. 
John’s day the bird changes into a sparrow 
hawk. 
The Danes have a curious legend regarding 
this bird. When the village girls hear its first 
call they kiss their hands and repeat “Cuckoo, 
cuckoo, when shall I be married?” As many 
times as the bird calls “cuckoo” in answer, so 
many years will the maiden have to wait. The 
old folk, bent and bowed with rheumatism and 
age, ask instead, “Cuckoo, cuckoo, when shall 
I be released from this world’s cares?” and 
the answer comes in the same way. So occu¬ 
pied is the poor bird in answering these ques¬ 
tions, say the Danes, that she never has time 
to build her nest, so is forced to lay her eggs 
in the nest of another bird.—Planet. 
