FOREST AND STREAM. 
[JAN. 20, 1906. 

Hotels for Sportsmen. 
PINEHURST 
North Carolina 
18 Hours From New York 
The beedine Health 
and Recreation 
DQ Resort of the South 
HOLLY INN 
THE BERKSHIRE 
THE CAROLINA 
THE HARVARD 
Now Open 
Two Golf Courses 
One of 18 and one of 9 holes 
SHOOTING PRESERVE 
35,000 Acres 
Quail Never More 
Tennis Courts, etc. 
Consumptives absolutely excluded 
Address BOOKLET DEPARTMENT 
Pinehurst General Office 
Pinehurst, ~ ~ North Carolina 




Plentiful 


THE MECKLENBURG HOTEL 
and GAME PRESERVES. 
The Sportsman’s Paradise. 
Turkey, Rabbits, Squirrels, Deer. 
Kennel of Fine Pointers and Setters. 
Foxhounds. 
Excellent Livery and Guides. 
Hotel Modern—steam-heated, Electric-lighted. Rooms 
single or en suite. Sun Parlors. 
Private Baths. Baruch System of Medicinal Baths. 
Noted MINERAL WATERS.—Mecklenburg, Lithia 
and Chloride Calcium, free to guests. 
Splendid Golf course, Bowling, Riding, Driving. 
Write for Booklet and other descriptive literature. 
Ghe MECKLENBURG MINERAL SPRINGS CO., 
Chase City, Virginia. 
HUNTER’S LODGE, 
North Carolina. 
Health Resort. Game Preserve. 
Large Pine Grove. Abundance of Game. 
Climate similar to Aiken, S. Carolina. Probably the best 
place in the South for a person seeking rest, recreation 
and comfort. 
Best table and services south of the Potomac. 
GENERAL ‘FRANK A. BOND, 
; Lumberton, North Carolina. 
HOTEL GRACE, 
Clarksville, Virginia. 
In the finest game section of America. Royal sport, 
QUAIL shooting. Very plentiful this season. Also have 
Deer, Duck, Turkey, Geese, etc. Large areas for hotel 
guests. Competent guides and good dogs. Modern hotel 
and good service for sportsmen and their families. 
Magee’s water served. Best reference from regular 
yearly patrons. Address HOTEL GRACE, Clarkeville, 
Mecklenburg County, Va. 
The Finest Tarpon Fishing in 
the World is now in Season at 
TAMPICO, MEXICO. 
Season lasts until May Ist. 
Tarpon outfits for sale or rent. Boats and boatmen. 
Superior accommodation at Hotel Hidalgo for fishermen 
and their families. Over one thousand tarpon caught 
last winter. See photos at Abbey & Imbrie, 18 Vesey 
St., New York. 
Address HOTEL HIDALGO, Tampico, Mexico. 
Ouail, 
< Kennel of fine 

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Hotels for Sportsmen. 
BAGLEY FARM, 
Bagley Mills, Va. 
La Crosse Station S. L. Ry.—We guarantee to furnish 
more QUAIL, DEER ‘and TURKEY shooting than can 
be found in any other section of the South. Guides, dogs 
and horses furnished. Good accommodations to sports- 
men and ladies. Apply directly, or R. M. BAGLEY, 
444 So. 48d St., Philadelphia, Pa 
EDWARD SHEFFIELD, 
Guide and Outfitter, St. Anthony, Idaho. References. 




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“AMERICAN DUCK SHOOTING” 
By GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL 
No single gunner, however wide his experi- 
ence, has himself covered the whole broad field 
of duck shooting, and none knows so much about 
the sport that there is nothing left for him to 
learn. Each one may acquire a vast amount of 
novel information by reading this complete and 
most interesting book. It describes, with a por- 
trait, every species of duck, goose and swan 
known to North America; tells of the various 
methods of capturing each, the guns, ammunition, 
loads, decoys and boats used in the sport, and 
gives the best account ever published of the re- 
trieving Chesapeake Bay dog. 
About 600 pages, 58 portraits of fowl, 8 full- 
page plates, and many vignette head and _tail- 
pieces by Wilmot Townsend. 
Price, edition de luxe on hand made paper, 
bound in buckram, plates on India tint paper, 
each copy numbered and signed by author, $5.00. 
Price library edition, $3.50. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUB. CO. 
346 Broadway, New York. 

WOODCRAFT. 
By Nessmuk. Cloth, 160 pages. Illustrated. Price, $1. 
A bock 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. 

was no time to be lost, and unable to resist the 
dog’s mute appeal for help, F. stretched himself 
on the treacherous ice, seized the animal by the | 
neck, pulled him out, and in a minute the dog 
was rolling joyfully at our feet. Though be- 
numbed with cold and covered with ice he at 
once took up the scent with an angry bark, and 
two hours after we had the satisfaction of killing 
the fox after one of the best runs I ever saw. 
Op JEFF, 
The Senses of Birds. 
EVER since reading an account of the experi- 
ments of the veteran Audubon regarding the 
senses that guide the vulture to its food I had 
taken it for granted that sight was the sole agent 
used by this or other flesh-eating birds; and my 
own observations had strengthened me in the 
belief. An incident that occurred a few days 
since, however, has convinced me that one bird 
at least has a set of olfactories even more deli- 
cately fashioned than his optics, though his 
eye is little less than a telescope in power. A 
horse belonging to a neighbor died one night 
last week, and the following morning the body 
was dragged to some distance and left unin- 
terred. About noon of the same day I noticed 
a company of perhaps twenty crows, flying low, 
heading directly for the carcass. Arrived at the 
spot where the object of their search lay, they 
circled about a few times in the air, and then, 
oblivious to the fact that all over the land distant 
relatives of theirs were being served at Thanks- 
giving dinners, they gathered round the carcass 
and banaueted right royally. 
This morning I visited the scene of the feast. 
The birds had, I found, torn a hole through the 
hide of the abdomen and devoured a portion of 
the viscera. I was surprised to see that the 
carcass lay in a shallow creek bed, from which 
the land rose gradually, but to a considerable 
height, in the direction from which the crows 
had been seen to come. The nearest woods, and 
the ones from which the crows undoubtedly 
came, are four miles away, and it immediately 
occurred to me that at such a distance the bird 
or birds must have been at a vast height. if 
sight discovered the carcass to them. With the 
aid of a stick and a ruler I made a rough cal- 
culation, and satisfied myself that even at a dis- 
tance of only two miles the body of the horse 
could not be seen at much less than 1,000 feet 
above the earth’s surface. Of course, crows 
sometimes ascend to this height. I once saw 
one pursue a hawk directly upward till both 
birds were almost lost to view; but this was 
during the breeding season, and every one 
knows that ordinarily this bird is content with 
much less lofty flights. Such being the case, 
one can hardly doubt that the birds were guided 
entirely by the sense of smell; but how marvel- 
lously delicate must be the organs that could de- 
tect at such a distance, even with a favorable 
wind, so slight a taint as would arise from an 
animal not in the least decayed! 
A few weeks ago, while in Southwestern Min- 
nesota, I recollect noticing an instance of this 
same bird’s acuteness of perception, which was 
probably no less remarkable than that just 
narrated. On the open prairie, many miles from 
any timber, a crow was seen by the body of a 
grouse which lay upon the snow. As usual, he 
had commenced his meal by picking out the 
eyes of the “chicken.” Crows were by no 
means abundant (at this season, at any rate) in 
the vicinity where this individual was seen; in 
fact, I saw only one other while in the State. 
It would be useless to attempt to surmise how 
far this bird may have seen or scented the frozen 
grouse. The latter doubtless perished during 
the recent unprecedented October storm, as did 
quail, coots and, I am told, even ducks. 
If the senses of the crow are wonderfully 
acute, those of the hawk are no less so. It is 
to be questioned whether some of these, as the 
harriers, may not be aided in finding their prey 
by the sense of smell, and I am inclined to think 
that the ear guides them to many a fine meal. 
Who that has hunted waterfowl has not, after 
firing into a flock of ducks, seen a hawk hurry- 
ing to the spot, evidently attracted by the report, 
and intent on securing a bird at the expense of 
