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"The Present I Wanted” 
That is what he will say if you select a Duxbak 
hunting garment. No other Christmas present could 
give him more pleasure. 
The shooting season is on! Guns, ammunition, 
dogs, hunting grounds—all will be critically chosen. But 
hunting coat, vest, trousers or hat may be overlooked. 
Health and comfort recommend Duxbak garments. 
Duxbak is the only cravenetted sportsmen’s clothing 
—hence rain-proof—the only kind that defies every 
whim of the weather man. The fabric is strong, 
close-woven, yet pliable and soft. 
Duxbak 
Sportsmen’s Clothing £5 $ e 0 n men 
Duxbak garments are not made to fit a price, but to fit the 
sportsman and his requirements. They hold their shape and wear 
longest. Duxbak clothes are perfectly ventilated and permit the 
utmost freedom of motion. Roomy, convenient pockets, too ! 
The Duxbak line includes all outer garments. Comes in light tan or 
olive green. 
Prices (east of Rocky mountains) express prepaid: Men’s and Women’s 
Coats and Norfolk Jackets, $5.00; Long Trousers, $3.00; Riding Trousers, 
$3.50; Plain Skirts, $5.00; Hats, $1.00 to $1.25; other garments in propor¬ 
tion. If your dealer will not supply you, we shall be glad to ship direct 
without delay or extra charge. 
Write for Free Illustrated Booklet Containing Samples of 
Duxbak Cloth and Self Measuring Blanks, or Order From This 
Advertisement. Trade prices to sporting goods dealers only. 
BIRD, JONES & KENYON, 8 Hickory Street, Utica, N. Y. 
Sole makers of Duxbak and Kamp-it outing clothing. 
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I AMERICAN BIG-GAME HUNTING 
BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB SERIES 
Edited by George Bird Grinnell and Theodore Roosevelt 
A thoroughly stimulating book dealing with American big-game hunting. East, 
West and under the Arctic circle, including every phase of' sport with the rifle. 
“American Big-Game Hunting” is a compilation of the experiences of some of the 
% most widely known sportsmen in America. Among the sketches are: The Story 
S of the Buffalo, Capt. Geo. S. Anderson; The White Goat and His Country, Owen 
Wister; Old Times in the Black Hills, Gen. Roger D. Williams; Coursing the 
A Pronghorn, Theodore Roosevelt; After Wapiti in Wyoming, F. C. Crocker; In 
^ Buffalo Days, George Bird Grinnell; Blacktails in the Bad Lands, B. Rumsey. 
* Forest Preserves and Game Refuges are also considered. Aside from the sur- 
<*• passing interest of the narratives, the book is invaluable for referenc. Cloth, 
£ heavy paper, library edition, richly illustrated. 
Postpaid, $2.50 
£ FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO., 127 Franklin Street, NEW YORK CITY 
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WOODCRAFT 
By “ Nessmuk.” Cloth, 160 pages. Illustrated. Price, $ 1.00. 
A book written for the instruction and guidance of those who go for pleasure to the 
woods. Its author, having had a great deal of experience in camp life, has succeeded 
admirably in putting the wisdom so acquired into plain and intelligible English. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO., NEW YORK 
DANGEROUS BIRDS. 
Usually we do not look upon birds as 
dangerous, but in many zoological gardens 
there are confined birds which are far more 
dangerous in an open attack than many of the 
mammals which we have been accustomed to 
regard with great fear. An ostrich or casso¬ 
wary is a formidable antagonist in a small in¬ 
closure, and keepers are not disposed to trifle 
with either when made angry or ugly by some 
incident, says Harper’s Weekly. Fortunately, 
expert keepers know the peculiar weaknesses 
of these birds. The ostrich, for instance, when 
rushing a keeper, can be held by catching the 
bird’s neck betVveen the tines of a pitchfork 
covered with ordinary garden hose. The neck 
is the sensitive part of the ostrich, and all his 
anger evaporates when he is caught by it. The 
cassowary when angered is easily confused and 
frightened, and the keepers, by a little shouting 
or beating of a tin pan, can cause it to run 
around aimlessly, kicking right and left instead 
of attacking the one at its mercy. The casso¬ 
wary is a dangerous bird. It leaps upward in 
an attack, and the kick starts from about the 
height of a man’s face. And behind that kick 
there are often 200 pounds of muscle and bon^. 
It is needless to say that the kick, if it strikes 
home, is pretty sure to kill. 
In the London Zoological Gardens two male 
cassowaries got into a fight during the breed¬ 
ing season one year, and the way they kicked 
and boxed made the spectators stare in wonder. 
The keepers, fearing that the birds would per¬ 
manently injure each other, tried to separate 
them. But this work from the outside of the 
inclosure was impossible. One of the keepers 
entered the place and tried to “shoo” them back 
to their respective corners. Instead, the birds 
turned upon the keeper. Before he could run 
or duck, he received a powerful blow in the 
shoulder from one, and the other, coming up 
from behind, delivered a blow in the back. 
When the rest of the keepers rescued the man 
he was more dead than alive, with both arms 
broken, a crushed chest, and serious internal 
injuries. But the birds had forgotten the cause 
of their anger by this time, and a child could 
have fed them without risk of danger. 
Another dangerous bird found in many of 
our zoos is the Canada goose. If angered in 
the breeding season, a big Canada gander can 
deliver some blows that would make a prize¬ 
fighter envious. More than one keeper has had 
his arms broken by the powerful wings of the 
gander. The gander fights desperately when 
angered, leaping at his foe when five or six 
feet away, and clinging with its beak while it 
strikes repeatedly and viciously. Hawks and 
the larger owls can cripple a man, and many a 
hunter can testify to their viciousness in the use 
of beak and claws when cornered. 
THE CROW’S DEFECTIVE SPEECH. 
“You know, of course,” said the man in the 
mackintosh, “that you can teach a crow to talk.” 
Silence gave negation to this proposition. 
“It’s so anyhow,” he persisted, “but if you slit 
his tongue straight down the middle, lengthwise, 
he can talk a good deal better. Why, I've seen 
that thing tested. A neighbor of mine, a col¬ 
lege professor, had a crow that could speak 
several words. He had its tongue slit, and 
when the tongue got well the bird could say 
almost anything the professor wanted it to say. 
“Did it perch upon the bust of Pallas, just 
above the”- 
“Cut that out. I’m telling you something that 
actually took place.” 
“Did the bird talk itself to death?” 
“Did it talk the professor to death?” 
“Could it sing two parts?” 
“Did it use words that had a double”- 
“Gentlemen,” interrupted the man in the 
mackintosh, “you make me intensely weary. 
The professor, it is true, gave the bird away. A 
bartender has it now.” 
“What was the trouble?” inquired the man 
with the green goggles. 
“He couldn't make it talk grammatically. It 
split its infinitives.”—Chicago Times. 
American Big Game in its Haunts. 
The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club. Editor, 
George Bird Grinnell. Vignette. New York. 497 
pages. Illustrated. Cloth, $2.50. 
Contents: Sketch of President Roosevelt; Wilderness 
Reserve, Theodore Roosevelt; The Zoology of North 
American Big Game, Arthur Erwin Brown; Big Game 
Shooting in Alaska—I. Bear Hunting on Kadiak Island; 
II. Bear Hunting on the Alaska Peninsula; III. My Big 
Bear of Shuyack; IV. The White Sheep of Kenai Pen¬ 
insula; V. Hunting the Giant Moose, James H. Kidder; 
The Kadiak Bear and His Home, W. Lord Smith; The 
Mountain Sheep and Its Range, George Bird Grinnell; 
Preservation of the Wild Animals of North America, 
Henry Fairfield Osborn; Distribution of the Moose, 
Madison Grant; The Creating of Game Refuges, Alden 
Sampson; Temiskaming Moose, Paul J. Dashiel; Two 
Trophies from Ind,ia, John H. Prentice; Big Game 
Refuges, Forest Reserves of North America, Forest Re¬ 
serves as Game Preserves, E. W. Nelson, etc., etc. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Camp-Fires of the Wilderness. 
By E. W. Burt. Cloth. Illustrated. 221 pages. Price, 
$1.25. 
The volume treats of a multitude of matters of in¬ 
terest to the camper, who, unless he is made comfortable 
by the exercise of a little expert knowledge and thought¬ 
fulness, may find himself when in camp the most miser¬ 
able of mortals. A man who has had experience, makes 
himself as comfortable in camp as at home, while the 
free and independent life, the exercise that he is con¬ 
stantly taking, the fresh air in which he works, eats and 
sleeps, combine to render his physical condition so per¬ 
fect that every hour of every day is likely to be a joy. 
“Camp-Fires of the Wilderness’’ is written for those 
persons who wish to go into camp, yet are without ex¬ 
perience of travel, chiefly by canoe and on foot, through 
various sections of the country, and it may be read with 
profit by every one who enjoys camping. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
