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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 27, 1911. 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
George Bird Grinnell, President, 
Charles B. Reynolds, Secretary, 
Louis Dean Speir, Treasurer. 
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AT ALBANY. 
Governor Dix, in signing the Smith bill, has 
relieved protectors and sportsmen of an embar¬ 
rassing dilemma. This bill provides that "if the 
open season begins or ends on Sunday, it shall 
be deemed to open or end on the Saturday imme¬ 
diately preceding such Sunday.” The trout sea¬ 
son in Southern New York opened on Sunday, 
April 16, last. Under the forest, fish and game 
law no angler who fished on that day could be 
punished, and in places where Sunday fishing is 
the rule, that was opening day. Elsewhere ang¬ 
lers were barred by sentiment, backed by the 
penal code, which forbids Sunday amusements. 
The situation of the Bayne bill at Albany is 
very unsatisfactory. Called up on the afternoon 
of May 18, it was objected to by Senator Grady, 
of New York, in the interest of the more ex¬ 
tended importation of foreign game. Introducer 
and objector were urged to try to agree on a 
changed form of the bill which should be brought 
in on Friday, but when it made its appearance 
on that day, it was so changed as to permit the 
importation of Hungarian partridges and Egyp- 
tion quail and the sale of imported game the 
year through. The purpose of the change is 
evidently to do away with Section 98, of the 
present law, which forbids the sale or the pos¬ 
session for sale of any birds coming from with¬ 
out the State, provided that such birds belong to 
the same family as those protected by the chapter. 
Here is seen the fine Italian hand of the game 
dealer who has always had an active interest 
in game legislation affecting New York city. 
Persons objecting to this changed bill were ad¬ 
vised that if they protested against the Bayne 
bid in its new form, a bill would be passed per¬ 
mitting the sale of imported game the entire 
year through, absolutely without restriction. 
It looks, therefore, as if the Senate of New 
York State were determined to throttle the 
Bayne bill by so altering it that while its name 
may remain, its purpose will be quite opposed 
to that which it had in its original form. It will 
be well for sportsmen interested in the matter 
promptly to call the attention of their own 
Senators to this reversal of the bill’s purpose. 
On the other hand, comfort is to be had from 
the fact that Governor Dix has vetoed Mr. Sulli¬ 
van’s bill, which largely took away protection 
from the lake trout in certain districts and per¬ 
mitted whitefish to be taken of any size what¬ 
ever. A more shortsighted and uneconomic act 
—one more hostile to the public interest—than 
removing protection from the wihtefish could 
hardly be imagined. Governor Dix is entitled to 
the thanks of every citizen of the State for hav¬ 
ing promptly vetoed this measure. 
If the Bayne bill is emasculated, let him veto 
that. 
WILD LIFE IN SPAIN. 
Few people are aware that to-day in parts of 
Southern Europe wild camels are found; or that 
the flamingo breeds there. Yet a wealth of wild 
life that is fairly astonishing exists to-day in the 
Iberian Peninsula. This peninsula, four hundred 
miles from east to west and from north to south, 
contains the greatest variety of territory from 
snow-capped mountains down through elevated 
arid steppes to vast stretches of marsh, sometimes 
flooded, sometimes baked and' cracked by the 
sun’s heat. Here are bears and boars, wolves 
and wild camels, ibex and chamois, red deer and 
wild bulls, bustards and flamingoes, with a 
wealth of wildfowl and of gallinaceous birds 
that is fairly astonishing. 
The visitor to Spain passes by settled routes 
to the great cities, where he sees the art treas¬ 
ures left by the Moors and somewhat of the 
urban life of the Spanish people, but of the 
monte—of the vast territory of high prairie or 
the rough snow-capped rock piles of the four 
great mountain ranges that traverse the penin¬ 
sula, he knows nothing. Nor does he know any¬ 
thing of the wild life so abundant in much of 
this unknown region, and so well hidden from 
all except the few who know where to look 
for it. 
If wild life is abundant here, it is not because 
of the excellent game laws that have existed— 
for there seem to be no game laws that are re¬ 
garded—but because in certain regions the popu¬ 
lation is extremely sparse, while in others the 
territory is controlled by great landholders who 
for one reason or another are willing to see that 
their land is protected. What would the Ameri¬ 
can gunner think of the duck resort where, in 
a single morning, one gunner fired away over a 
thousand cartridges, or where two guns in three 
days could kill 437 ducks and 17 geese? 
A few years ago the ibex was almost extinct 
in Spain, yet through the efforts of Messrs. Buck 
and Chapman, ably seconded by the great land- 
owners on whose estates this wild goat ranged, 
so much protection has been given to it that 
now at six points in Spain there is a good breed¬ 
ing stock. Some proprietors of their own free 
will have ceded to King Alphonso XIII. the sole 
rights of chase on their territory, and guards 
have been selected from the very men who were 
the best—and so the most destructive—ibex hun¬ 
ters, and this fine species is likely to be preserved. 
Of all this we are told by Abel Chapman and 
Walter J. Buck, in a recent account of “Unex¬ 
plored Spain,” whose earlier book, “Wild Spain, ’ 
like this one, possesses a keen interest for 
naturalists and for sportsmen. 
An exceedingly interesting report comes to us 
from New Orleans to the effect that two land- 
owners have offered to deed to the State 13,000 
acres of swamp land absolutely, and 37,000 acres 
for a period of ten years, to be used as a wild¬ 
fowl refuge. The only conditions attached to 
the grant are reported to be that no ducks, geese 
or other game are to be hunted or killed on this 
preserve. The refuge referred to is on the west 
side of the great Vermilion Bay in Vermilion 
parish, Louisiana, is excellently adapted for a 
wildfowl preserve and should be the winter home 
of vast multitudes of fowl. That it will ever be 
a great breeding ground for ducks, geese and 
brant is not at all probable, yet some of the 
Southern wild ducks—relatives of the mallard 
and the dusky duck—will breed here and in con¬ 
stantly increasing numbers. Louisiana may be 
counted fortunate in that so useful a refuge has 
been offered her by public-spirited men. 
It was reported from Chicago last month that 
landlocked salmon had been taken from Lake 
Michigan, and in order to be certain of the 
species, we requested Chicago anglers to for¬ 
ward a specimen to Washington for identifica¬ 
tion by the Bureau of Fisheries, and at the same 
time asked Dr. Barton W. Evermann of the 
bureau if records were at hand showing plant¬ 
ings of landlocked salmon in Lake Michigan or 
its feeders. His reply, printed elsewhere in this 
issue, is of much value. 
Thomas Mott Osborne, who last winter was 
appointed by Governor Dix as Commissioner of 
Forest, Fish and Game of New York State, sent 
his resignation of that post to the Governor on 
Saturday last. On Monday of this week his 
resignation was accepted with regret by the 
Governor. Mr. Osborne said ill health com¬ 
pelled him to take a long vacation, and it is 
understood that he is going abroad. 
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Members of the Southern California Rod and 
Reel Club in a body attended the funeral of 
Louise Shaver, who was killed recently by a 
railway train while on a fishing trip with her 
husband, Roy F. B. Shaver, recording secretary 
of this Los Angeles club. Mrs. Shaver was very 
fond of sea angling, and was often seen with 
her husband on the water near San Pedro. 
« 
At the public hearing before the corporate 
stock budget committee on Monday of this week, 
Park Commissioner Stover asked for $1,750,000 
for the rebuilding of the New York Aquarium 
in Battery Park, and $2,500,000 for the American 
Museum of Natural History. These sums are 
for permanent improvements during the next 
five years. 
