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PUBLISHED CONTINUOUSLY SINCE 1873 
CONTENTS FOR JANUARY, 1918 
PAGE 
Traversing the Golden Trout 
Country . 11 
By Minnie Louise Langhorst. 
A Pepper-Gun Among the Powder- 
Puffs . 16 
By Newton Newkirk. 
Your Hunting Trophy — What 
About It? . 18 
By Henry Richmond Coyle. 
A Red Letter Day with the 
Widgeons . 20 
By Widgeon. 
The Water-Wastes . 22 
By W. Livingston Lamed. 
A Royal Good Fellow—The Weak- 
fish . 24 
By Leonard Hulit. 
Improving the Angler's Equipment 25 
By Louis Rhead. 
In the Haunts of the Snowshoe 
Rabbit .... 26 
By Edwin O. Perrin. 
Editorial Comment . 28-29 
Cultivating Silkworm Gut at Home 30 
By Edwin T. Whiffen. 
Cover Design Copyrighted by B. P. C. 
PAGE 
How to Make the Angler’s Best 
Flies . 
By George Parker Holden, M. D. 
A Hunter’s Story of Battling Elk 
By F. C. Loring. 
An Unseen Companion of Lonely 
Trails .. 
By Leoren D. Ingalls. 
Be Sure You Are Right Before 
You Shoot . 
By F. V. Williams. 
“ Digging In ” Somewhere in New 
Jersey .... 
By Captain Roy S. Tinney. 
Nessmuk’s Campfire . 36-37 
Building a Speedy Aero-Power Sled 38 
By P. P. Avery, M. E. 
Seneca’s Hints, Helps and Answers 
Principles of Rifle Shooting. 
From Here and There . 
A Clever Sea Gull . 
By William Starr. 
“Palmerston,” The Unbeaten - 
Wanted For the Army. 
GOVERNING BOARD 
C. E. AKELEY, Museum of Natural History, New York, N. Y. 
FRANK S. DAGGETT, Museum of Science, Los Angeles, Cal. 
EDMUND HELLER, Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D. C. 
C. HART MERRIAM. Biological Survey, Washington. D. C. 
WILFRED OSGOOD, Field Museum, Chicago, Ill. 
JOHN M. PHILLIPS, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
CHARLES fcHELDON, Washington. D. C. 
GEORGE StllRAS, III. Washington, D. C. 
GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL, New York, N. Y. 
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