VACATION INSURANCE 
Most 
interesting 
events 
happen 
just 
beyond 
the 
focus of 
the 
naked 
eye 
GERMAN ARMY 
SURPLUS 
Prism Binocula rs 
Optica, Goerz, Schutz, Rodenstock, Oigee 
and other makes. 
(SLIGHTLY USED) 
Purchased from Allied Reparations 
Commission at favorable rates of ex¬ 
change and imported prior to the advance 
in the U. S. Tariff, these genuine prism 
binoculars represent a very unusual op¬ 
portunity. 
Add 100% 
to the 
pleasure 
of your 
vacation 
whether 
it be 
Hunting 
Camping 
Hiking 
Fishing 
Motoring 
Manufactured by makers of the finest 
lenses in the world, under strict military 
supervision; used by high officers of the 
German army and navy, they cannot be 
surpassed at any price. 
All glasses guaranteed in perfect con¬ 
dition. Shipped on receipt of check or 
money order under positive guarantee of 
full cash refund for any glasses returned. 
Order Your Prism Glass Today 
HENDERSON BROTHERS 
SIX OR EIGHT POWER 
Bankers and Importers 
38 Court Square Boston, Mass. 
d»1 A CA Add 20c 
X I/»OU postage 
Baker Guns with 
the Lindsay Patent. 
SINGLE TRIGGER 
“Batavia Leader” fitted with 
Non-Selective Single Trigger.. . $60 
Fitted with Selective Trigger .... $65 
“Batavia Leader” fitted with 2 triggers$40 
Write for complete catalog 
DAVTD fITN PA 253 Church Street 
DAMIK bUN LU. New York City 
Standard 
Spanish 
ARMY 
Used by French 
During World War 
Buy direct from sole U. S. 
importers and SAVE ^ on this 
Genuine Astra Automatic 
Your chance to have the finest European pistol — 
the equal of any similar American gun--at about 
% the price. Order direct at these special prices. 
$7.75 25 calibre—7 shot—C. O. Q. Automatic. 
8.95 25 calibre—7 shot—Astra Automatic. 
9.95 25 calibre Astra with triple safety. 
10.95 32 calibre—10 shot Astra, extra magazine. 
16.95 32-20 and 38 cal. swing-out cyl. revolvers. 
We guarantee every gun against defective work¬ 
manship; brand new; of Drop Forged Steel Through¬ 
out. Before buying any weapon INSIST on this 
guarantee. SEND NO MONEY unless you 
wish. State model desired—pay postman on delivery 
plus postage. Satisfaction guaranteed or money re¬ 
funded. Write for new firearms catalogue. 
CALIFORNIA TRADING CO. 
Oept. 2 18, Terminal Bldg. Los Angeles, Cal. 
nswer 
that Call 
Northern , 
'Wisconsin 
Upper 
Michigan 
Old friend bass, 
the scrappy trout, 
pike, pickerel and 
muskie are biting 
“big.” 
Sling your kit and 
make reservations 
for the whole fam¬ 
ily at one of the 
North Woods 
hotels, cottages or 
camps. 
Bargain 
Summer 
Fares 
Write for booklets, detailed map, information about fares, 
resorts, and ask to have Fishing Bulletin mailed regularly. 
C. A. Cairns, 
Pass. Traffic Manager 
Chicago &. North 
Western Ry. 
226 W. Jackson Blvd. 
Chicago, 111. 
Chicago Passenger Terminal 
stripe extends from the eyes down the 
side of the head to the breast. The 
plumage of this bird is altogether dis¬ 
tinctive and there should be no great 
difficulty in identifying it readily. 
This species of plover was at one 
time perhaps the most abundant of all 
the shore birds, whereas at the present 
time it is in rather imminent danger of 
total extermination. A slight idea of 
its former abundance as well as an ap¬ 
preciation of the causes of its rapid 
diminution may be obtained from the 
fact that on the 16th of March, 1821, 
for example, Audubon states that, near 
New Orleans, almost 50,000 of these 
birds were killed in one day by pot 
hunters. In Chicago at a considerably 
later date they were sold in the open 
market for fifty cents per hundred. 
Instances of this sort could be cited 
by the hundred, and it is in no wise 
remarkable that, according to Forbush, 
the Golden Plover has decreased in 
numbers in New England about ninety 
per cent, in fifteen years. Stringent 
legislation within recent years, how¬ 
ever, has brought a slight increase to 
these thinned ranks, and while this 
species is still in danger of extermina¬ 
tion, the situation looks somewhat 
brighter than it did five or ten years 
ago. 
The abundance of the golden plover 
along the Atlantic seaboard during 
the shooting season is almost entirely 
dependent upon weather conditions. 
Heavy easterly winds and stormy 
weather will drive large numbers of 
them toward shore. During fair 
weather, however, the flocks will al¬ 
most invariably stay well out to sea 
and on a direct route from Nova Scotia 
to the Lesser Antilles. 
The golden plover may frequently 
be found on pasture lands close to 
beaches where they feed generously on 
grasshoppers, insects and worms, 
which fare constitutes their favorite 
diet. 
The safest rule for the hunter to 
follow in order to avoid shooting shore 
birds on the protected list is to learn 
to identify accurately and readily the 
above four species and then to con¬ 
scientiously refrain from shooting at 
all other species whose identification 
marks do not tally with these. Among 
those species which are protected and 
which are found in greater or less 
abundance during the shooting season 
may be mentioned the red and northern 
phalaropes, stilt sandpiper, pectoral 
sandpiper, sanderling, willet, solitary 
sandpiper and dunlin or red-backed 
sandpiper. A description of these 
species may be found in any standard 
work on ornithology. 
Each year on the opening day of the 
shore bird season there is an ever-in¬ 
creasing army of shooters ready to 
greet the birds southward-bound from 
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