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[Aug. 13, 1910. 
cally down. I had the machan made perfectly 
invisible with branches and placed high enough 
to escape detection by being winded. 
That evening the tigress turned up at about 
6:30 p. m. The sun had almost set and the moon 
had not risen, hence the light was about as bad 
as it could be. I waited a few seconds to see 
if the other tiger would come, intending to se¬ 
lect the larger, but the light was fast failing and 
I thought the tigress seemed decidedly suspicious 
about something, and once or twice looked in my 
direction, so extraordinary keen is their sense 
of hearing and instinct of danger. Taking a 
careful aim I let her have a .500 express bullet 
behind the shoulder. She bounded down the 
hill and rushed off, falling down after she had 
gone twenty yards under cover, but never made 
a sound, not even a cough. 
We followed her up next morning by her 
tracks and the blood and found her dead about 
200 yards from the kill. The bullet had gone 
in just behind the shoulder and cut her lungs 
to pieces. She had a big scar not quite healed, 
just under the forearm, and on taking off the 
skin out came a ragged piece of lead—a piece 
of Harku Singh’s bullet, the native shikari who 
had fired at her over the corpse of the woman 
before my arrival. She measured eight feet one^ 
inch before skinning—a small tigress—buf of 
splendid development and in the pink of con¬ 
dition, with a handsome winter skin. 
W. R. Gilbert. 
Spring Shooting. 
Meshoppen, Pa., Aug. 1 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: I am not a duck hunter, and this is 
not a duck country, still I am deeply interested 
in the preservation of the wildfowl as well as 
of all the other game of our country. 
The principle involved in spring shooting is 
all wrong, and one would think that the very 
idea would prove abhorrent to all true sportsmen. 
In my opinion those who are so selfish and so 
lacking in the fine sensibilities which should con¬ 
trol and govern the actions of all who go to the 
fields and streams for pleasure and inspiration 
should be restrained by law, and that law rigidly 
enforced. I have an abiding faith that at no 
very distant day spring shooting will be univer¬ 
sally abolished, and that such laws will receive 
the hearty and well nigh universal sanction and 
support from all lovers of the out-of-doors. 
I think the number of sportsmen is rapidly in¬ 
creasing who, like myself, derive far more pleas¬ 
ure from observing the habits of game, seeing 
it about daily and studying all its peculiarities 
than in hunting and killing the same at any time 
or in any way. 
Never were we more hopeful of the future 
than at the present time. Forest and Stream 
is doing a splendid work in leading up to a 
truer sportsmanship and a higher manhood. And 
for the lasting benefit of our country may its 
readers multiply. Bon Ami. 
A Fur Catch from the North. 
Tiie last of July, Colin Fraser, a well known 
fur trader from the North, reached Edmonton, 
Alberta, with his force of twenty-eight men who 
have been working with him through the winter. 
He reports the total value of his winter’s catch 
as about $31,000. among which were eight silver 
foxes, estimated to be worth $500 each. Of 
muskrats, the commonest fur of the North, near¬ 
ly 32,000 were taken, but these were sold to the 
Hudson’s Bay Company, at Fort Chipewya-n, for 
$16,000. The nineteen packs of furs brought in 
consisted of wolf, fox, beaver, marten, lynx, 
weasel. 
The trapping work done by Fraser's party was 
about Fort Chipewyan, at the head of Athabasca 
Lake. 
Mr. PTaser reports that the prospects for a 
catch of muskrat next year are not good. The 
rats appear to be dying off from some disease 
that has appeared in their midst only recently. 
The result is that in near'y every rat house can 
be found several dead animals. It will require 
several years for them to recover from the ef¬ 
fects of the epidemic and multiply to the num¬ 
bers that existed when the trapping opened last 
winter. 
Such epidemics have at times appeared among 
other animals of the North—notably rabbits— 
diminishing their number greatly. 
New Alaska Game Regulations. 
The Bureau of Biological Survey, which has 
charge of game preservation, has issued a circu¬ 
lar establishing new regulations for the protec¬ 
tion of game in Alaska. They are as follows: 
These regulations, additional to those of Aug. 
1, 1908, and superseding those of March 6, 1909, 
are to take effect Aug. 15, 1910. 
Regulation 1, Open Seasons for Deer.—The 
season for killing deer in 1910 in Southeastern 
Alaska shall end Nov. 1, and thereafter the 
open season shall be limited to the period from 
Aug. 15 to Nov. 1, both inclusive. 
Regulation 2, Limits.—The number of deer 
killed by one person during the open season shall 
be limited to eight. 
Regulation 3, Sale.—After the close of the 
season of 1910 the sale of deer carcasses in 
Southeastern Alaska shall be suspended until 
1912. 
Regulation 4, Walrus.—The season for killing 
walrus in Bering Strait and in Bering Sea north 
of the mouth of the Kuskoquim River shall be 
limited to the period from May 10 to July 1. 
both inclusive. The killing of walrus in BristoJ 
Bay and at points on the coast of Bering Sea 
south of the Kuskoquim River is hereby pro¬ 
hibited until 1912. 
The regulations of March 6, 1909, relating to 
deer, are hereby revoked. 
Hunting in Mexico. 
John A. M. Lethbridge, a long time contribu¬ 
tor to Forest and Stream, and an old hunter of 
long experience in Montana, British America and 
Africa, is now in Mexico. With Charles Taylor, 
for many years a resident and guide in the Sierra 
Madres, he has established a hunting resort or 
camp in those mountains, where there are re¬ 
ported to be abundant deer, turkeys and wild 
pigs, with some bears and mountain lions and 
perhaps a few jaguars. Mr. Taylor’s last party 
—which hunted with hounds broken to run only 
bears and mountain lions—secured five lions and 
three bears in twelve days. 
Mexico is a field for big-game hunting known 
to comparatively few sportsmen. One reason for 
this has been lack of accommodations and lack 
of knowledge as to where guides might be had. 
The establishment of Mr. Lethbridge’s place will 
interest a number of people. 
Sportsmen’s Cameras.—V. 
Turning next to the folding camera of the 
well known cycle style, we have an instrument 
capable of almost every kind of work one is 
likely to attempt, outdoors or indoors. Ordi¬ 
narily this is a thin, light, compact affair, but 
you can load up. if you wish, with attachments 
until the box becomes a minor part of the whole. 
Four by five and 5x7 are the best known sizes, 
the favorite one being a matter of individual 
preference. The usual box with its equipment, 
costing $30 or less, is made up somewhat as fol¬ 
lows : Length of draw of bellows, about 15 
inches; lens, rectilinear; shutter, combination, 
capable of exposures of 1/50 second and less, 
and time exposures; finder, ordinary; front 
board, adjustable horizontally and vertically; 
back, reversible and hinged to swing, and with 
ground glass screen for focusing; equipment, a 
double plateholder. Six double plateholders, a 
roll film adapter or a film pack adapter are op¬ 
tional extras, the outfit is carried in a leather 
case, and a tripod is frequently employed. 
This is one of the best all-round cameras. It 
can be used with or without a tripod; it can 
even be equipped with a focal plane shutter. If 
it is 5x7 size and the bellows can be drawn out 
26 or 28 inches, it will do excellent copying at 
a few inches, and with the rear combination of 
a good anastigmat doublet it will give enlarged 
images of distant objects. If you want two 
cameras, and one of them is to be a reflecting 
camera, a 5x7 folding camera with bellows draw 
of, two feet or more is an excellent auxiliary. It 
may be that one lens will work in both boxes. 
If so, the folding camera will be very useful. 
It will make fine landscape pictures of good size. 
You can copy old prints at a distance of a foot 
or less, and make magnified pictures of butter¬ 
flies, flowers and other specimens. 
To do this procure a piece of two-inch plank 
a foot wide and somewhat longer for a base. 
Nail two narrow uprights on one edge of the 
plank, leaving a quarter-inch space between 
them. They should be three feet long. Drop 
an old tripod screw in the slot, with a washer 
on each side for a binder. Nail a bit of board 
or leather across the tops of the two strips, and 
the thing is complete. 
The camera is attached to the uprights by 
means of the tripod screw, the lens pointing 
down at the center of the base board. Shift the 
camera up or down until it is in the right posi¬ 
tion, tighten the screw and then carry the stand 
to a place where the light is just right, indoors 
or out. 
We will assume that the camera is 5x7 size, 
and that you have an old print of a particular 
friend in a canoe—often such a print is the only 
one in existence, the negative having been broken 
by accident. Perhaps the object is very small 
and parts of the picture are not attractive. Tack 
the print on the baseboard to make it lie flat. 
Focus so that, the object will be as large as you 
wish, say half the size of the plate, stop the lens 
down to pinhole size, expose for half a minute, 
and when it is developed your negative will be 
a prize. Frequently the best results can be at¬ 
tained by employing the back combination of 
your lens only. Prints from the enlarged nega¬ 
tive lose a little detail, but if the original print 
is a good one, the new prints will be better than 
you would have thought. 
