the animal, Lawrence’s first shot crippling it. The 
dogs circled the animal, bearing down toward Law¬ 
rence with snarling fangs. A lucky shot ended its 
career. A taxidermist said it was a wolf, the fangs 
and color proving it, “with not the smallest strain of 
dog in the animal,” was his contention. A game pro¬ 
tector believed there was a strain of dog in the 
animal. 
In 1919, a similar controversy took place when 
Edward G. Faile, of Rosedale, Westchester County, 
: New York, killed an animal whose brush, size and 
head were coyote. The body color was that of the 
common red fox. The ears, it was said, were too 
short for a coyote. It was a hybrid animal, and, 
according to the knowledge of Dr. Roy Chapman 
Andrews and Dr. Harold Anthony, Associate Cura¬ 
tors of Mammals, American Museum of Natural His¬ 
tory, they pronounced it a coyote with a distinct dog 
cross. It was the assumption that possibly some one 
had a dog-coyote in captivity which crossed with a 
collie, common shepherd or possibly a police dog. 
On the second or third throw-back to the original 
strain, the animal was almost a true coyote type in 
appearance and had the characteristics of a wolf. 
In the case of the Adirondack wolf, it is pointed out 
that the moving-picture camps keep wolves, that one 
may have escaped, or, it may have been the offspring 
of one that had mated with a dog. Here the con- 
' troversy stands. There is no doubt that Reuben 
Cary, in an old clearing not far from Brandreth Lake, 
caught and killed the last survivor of the Adirondack 
wolves. That was in 1893, and in the February 
(1923) number of Forest and Stream, Frederick A. 
Potter told about it entertainingly. 
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TABS ON TRAVEL 
N the fishing-banks off the New England coast, 
men of the Federal Bureau of Fisheries have 
released about 10,000 cod, pollock and had¬ 
dock, and doubtless before this appears in print, some 
of these fish will be captured, for which the Bureau 
of Fisheries will pay 25 cems ror each tag returned. 
To obtain the quarter from Uncle Sam it will be 
necessary to make a report on the locality where the 
tagged fish was taken and the circumstances under 
which it was caught. 
d he Bureau of Fisheries is repeating the method, 
first tried in 1908, when salmon were caught and 
tagged, then released, from the recovered tags of 
which the fish experts were able to get definite in¬ 
formation of the traveling habits of the silver and 
steelhead members of the family, in addition to how 
they acclimate themselves from salt to fresh waters, 
d hese scientific steps to ascertain the seasonal move¬ 
ments of fish, from the knowledge obtained, should 
assist much in proposed legislation regarding sea 
fishes. The newspaper writers who think that some 
fisherman may make a haul of cod that the govern¬ 
ment will pay $2,500 for the tags has another guess 
coming. Let them read that fishing classic of Kip¬ 
ling’s, “Captains Courageous.” 
A PLEASURABLE PASTIME 
A PLEASANT occupation for women and men 
who have the leisure, and who live in the 
country, or have access to the great outdoors 
is to aid the Biological Survey in their annual bird 
census. 
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I lie Biological Survey has no funds to pay for this 
work, depending wholly upon the assistance of vol¬ 
unteer observers. To be effective, the same tract of 
land, be it marsh, swamp, field, orchard, pasture or 
timber, must be recorded year after year. The time 
to begin is after the migration is over, at the height 
of the breeding season. Blanks for recording the re¬ 
sults of bird censuses are furnished by the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
NEW WILD TURKEY 
S PORTSMEN who prefer Upland bird shooting 
will be much interested in the news reports tell¬ 
ing of an expedition of the Biological Survey of 
the Department of Agriculture to Central America to 
capture live specimens of the beautiful Honduras 
spotted turkey. The range of this wild turkey ex¬ 
tends over a section of Yucatan, Honduras and'Gua¬ 
temala, and the intention is to take the birds to 
Sapelo Island off the Georgia coast, where experi-ments 
will be tried to domesticate and propagate the birds. 
I be Honduras bird is said to be smaller than our 
domesticated turkey, but until this time no attempt 
has been made to domesticate it. In 1950 we can 
imagine the scene in the New York World office. 
“Harvey,” says the City editor, “go up to Forest and 
Stream office with the monoplane T-6 and get all the 
facts you can about the Federal Government in 1923 
capturing and distributing Honduras spotted turkeys, 
I see that New York has an open season beginning 
to-morrow and I think that will make an interesting 
story. Make it snappy and tell where the birds can 
be taken. Write a column, tell Johnson to put it on 
the front page, unless he can dig up something more 
interesting.” 
HOPE FOR RED FLAMINGOES 
H OPE is expressed that the red flamingoes may 
be saved. The flamingo was held in high 
repute among the luxurious Romans; and 
Apicius, famous in the annals of gastronomy, is re¬ 
corded by Pliny to have discovered the exquisite 
relish of the flamingo’s tongue and a superior mode of 
dressing it. 
Twenty-one years ago Frank M. Chapman’s inves¬ 
tigation showed that the flame-colored flamingoes had 
disappeared from Florida as well as from the Ba¬ 
hamas, where once they were numerous. So he went 
to the island of Andros, where he found 12,000 birds, 
took some live specimens and more photographs. 
Now there are barely 1,200 birds gathered mostly in 
one colony or rookery. T. Gilbert Pearson, president 
of the National Association of Audubon Societies, is 
now in Andros, making arrangement with Sir Harry 
'Cordeau, Governor of the island, for the protection of 
these birds. Protection may save these birds, although 
it came too late to save the passenger pigeon. 
A PLEA TO CAMPERS 
W ITH the coming of spring and summer there 
will be the usual exodus of nature-lovers into 
the open spaces. Thousands of camp fires 
will be lighted and thousands of trees will be cut 
down to build them. 
To avoid devastating fires and to protect the forests 
do not neglect to put out your camp fire and cut 
down dead trees only. 
