FOUNDERS OF THE AUDUBON SOCIETY 
ADVISORY BOARD 
GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL, NEW YORK, N. Y. 
CARL E. AKELEY, American Museum of Natural History, New York. 
EDMUND HELLER, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 
WILFRED H. OSGOOD, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Ill. 
JOHN M. PHILLIPS, Pennsylvania Game Commission, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
CHARLES SHELDON, Washington, D. C. 
GEORGE SHIRAS, 3d, Washington, D. C. 
JOHN T. NICHOLS, American Museum of Natural History, New York. 
T. GILBERT PEARSON, National Association of Audubon Societies. 
WILLIAM BRUETTE, Editor 
JOHN P. HOLMAN, Managing Editor 
T. H. MEARNS, Treasurer 
Nine East Fortieth Street, New York City 
Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL WILL BE TO 
studiously promote a healthful interest in outdoor 
recreation, and a refined taste for natural objects. 
August 14, 1873. 
Vol XCIII. CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1923 No, 2 
PAGE 
The Big Game of North 
China . 51 
By Arthur De Carle 
Soiocrby 
Winter in " Our Game 
Covers . 54 
By W. J. Sclialdach 
Trapping the Three River 
Zone, Part 3. 56 
By Raymond Thompson 
Coon Hunting in Ne¬ 
braska . 59 
By L. V. Douglas 
The Last Adirondack 
Wolf . 60 
By Frederick A. Potter 
Rig for the Barnegat . . . 
Sneakbox . 61 
By Dwight S. Simpson 
page 
Rifle Practice for 
Hunters . 62 
By C. S. Landis 
How Should Big Fish 
Be Landed? . 63 
By G. Horton Glover 
Companions of Camp and 
Trail . 64 
By Leoren D. Ingalls 
This Month in the. Out¬ 
doors . 65 
Editorial Comment . 66 
Nessmuk’s Camp Fire. ... 68 
Letters, Questions and 
Answers . 70 
Fishing in Bermuda. 78 
By James Albert Wales 
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BOY SCOUT CAMPERS 
T HE old adage that history repeats itself is recall 
as sportsmen discover many trails and rustic sht 
ters in the wild woods, and observe the skill jvi 
which Boy Scout campers are reinacting the pione 
life of primitive America. 
The National office of the Boy Scouts of Ameri 
has just issued a report summarizing camp activities 
Boy Scouts throughout the Nation during the pa 
summer season. Over 200,000 pioneers in khaki ha 
spent a week or more each in camping places rangii 
from Alaska to Florida and from Maine to Mexu 
Upwards of twenty-seven hundred sites were used, ai 
ten thousand men volunteered their time and expc 
knowledge of the out-of-doors to train and safegua 
these youthful woodsmen, and to preserve the pione 
traditions and pure patriotism of pioneers for futu 
generations. 
To the romance of camp life have been added ti 
of the most valuable considerations in present-day ed 
cation, namely, conservation of our natural resourc 
and personal habits which make for health and physic 
fitness. The enjoyment and appreciation of America 
wonderful resources for recreation out-of-doors, knov 
edge of what is necessary to preserve and improve o 
forests, the practice in their recreation of health-givii 
habits, and the useful art of living comfortably on oik 
own resources out-of-doors are developing a generati 
of good campers whose conduct gives hope and che 
to the sportsman. From these ranks will, undoubted 
come the best type of American sportsman in the yea 
to come. Boost the Boy Scouts wherever you fi 
them, and make available to them every opportuni 
for knowledge of the out-of-doors which they are 
eager to acquire! 
LOSSES ON GAME PRESERVES 
V ERY great difficulties are met with in keepi 
wild animals in confinement, where they are lin 
ted to a definite range of territory and so cam 
travel freely from place to place. Some of these tre 
bles have been shown within the year by losses amo 
the buffalo in the Yellowstone Park, and among t 
small herds of antelope on the Montana Bison Ran 
and in the Wind Cave Game Preserve in So. Dako 
For some years since the previous attacks of he 
morhagic septicaemia, the buffalo calves in the tai 
herd on the Lamar River have each year been inoc 
lated with serum to prevent a recurrence of the d 
ease. Nevertheless, last winter an attack in this he 
carried off fifty-eight animals old and young. The d 
ease was checked at last, but the loss was severe. 
This buffalo herd suffers too from an undue prope 
tion of bulls and steers, which by fighting and 
worrying the cows and young cause some loss ea 
year. The National Parks Service has been urged 
reduce the number of these useless male animals, t 
believes that it is without authority to kill or sell the 
It has, however, drawn a bill to authorize such redi 
tion, but nothing more has been done about the matt 
Much more serious is the very great loss in the O 
herds of antelope found on the Montana Bison Ran 
and in the Wind Cave National Game Preserve, 
will be recalled that some years ago the Boone a 
Crockett Club sent out to the Montana Bison Range 
number of antelope which for a time did nothing, 1 
at last becoming acclimated began to breed, and abo 
a year ago numbered sixty. During the past winl 
the heavy snow caused drifts, which enabled predate 
animals to walk over the fence and these antelope we 
