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bleeding as I could only find a few 
drops here and there. I hunted around 
an hour but could find no more traces 
of him. I have no doubt that he died 
as he didn’t bother the camp any more. 
HAT same season I was coming in 
from camp with a man who had 
been with me; we had some salmon 
which we had caught and smoked and 
were bringing in to the settlement. We 
sat down beside the road to rest and 
my friend looked around and _ said, 
“Look at the bear.” I looked and saw 
a big bear coming toward us. When 
he saw us, he deliberately left the road 
and started to walk around us. I 
jumped up and started on the road be- 
side him and fired as soon as I saw a 
good chance. He immediately stopped 
and made a bite at his side, then he 
raised up his hind legs and grabbed 
a big tree with his fore paws and 
ripped off some of the bark. I was now 
opposite him with another cartridge in 
my gun. He came straight on in the 
road and when he was within ten feet 
of me, I gave him another shot which 
knocked him down and put him out of 
business. In skinning him I found the 
first bullet had not broken the skin, but 
had raised a blood blister on the out- 
side. 
M ANY people have asked me what 
the bear’s favorite food is. If 
there is anything they like better than 
honey, it is white maggots in a decayed 
horse or moose carcass. I have known 
them to pass the carcass of a horse and 
not touch it until it has disintegrated 
and is full of maggots; then they will 
eat all they can find and dig up the 
ground round where the carcass lay to 
find more. Around lumber camps, they 
will dig out the cook’s sink hole as long 
as they can find a maggot or worm in 
1t. 
The Bird Angler 
(Continued from page 83) 
they do. They are aware of it, and 
calmly say so. “We must keep the 
law” is their only answer. 
EVERTHELESS, private owners 
of fish preserves should relentlessly 
drive them away, not necessarily to 
their total destruction—though that 
would hardly be possible unless an 
army rose up against them. 
As the case stands now, many birds 
fish all night long—mostly of the heron 
family, who fish till early dawn. Be- 
fore they cease, the Kingfisher resumes 
the work, and will gorge till sunset, 
with the result that a continuous war 
goes on night and day to destroy what 
both the State and private individuals 
are most anxious to preserve, for let 
it be understood that common and 
coarse fishes are invariably bottom 
feeders, consequently are rarely if ever 
seen on the surface. Suckers, catfish, 
eels—all enemies of trout spawn—this 
bird does not catch, being only what I 
term a surface angler. 
Certainly the Kingfisher is a hand- 
some bird, with his crowned crest, but 
there his good qualities stop, for hand- 
some is as handsome does; he is not 
fit to eat, neither is his voice musical; 
indeed, it is exactly the reverse, being 
the most unearthly screech ever heard 
from bird creature, except the peacock. 
HE Kingfisher rarely builds a nest 
near the haunt of man, like so 
many of our favorite and sociable birds, 
but, going in pairs, they live alone, se- 
cluded, even from their own species, and 
never to any extent congregate in num- 
bers. They choose, if possible, a steep, 
high bank of sand or clay, and in a little 
cave at the end of a subterranean pas- 
sage, is their nest of dry twigs and 
leaves. When the young are hatched, 
they are fed with very small fish, not 
over an inch long. As they advance in 
age and size they are provided with 
larger fish. It can easily be imagined 
what five of these little, ravenous 
youngsters must require daily, in ad- 
dition to the regular diet of the parent 
birds, who fly back and forth a hun- 
dred times a day. Should any human 
creature be near their haunts, the male 
bird will pretend lameness by wobbling 
in front or close to the man whom they 
suspect will rob their home. After en- 
ticing him away, they will fly up and 
wait on a nearby branch till the coast 
is clear; then resume operations. I 
have frequently tried to get up to the 
nest while one or both parents were in- 
doors, but somehow, either that they 
hear the vibration of climbing up the 
bank, or perhaps instinct, I have not 
as yet been able to place a fishing net 
over the hole, to capture a living speci- 
men. At close quarters they are a 
much larger bird than they appear 
when in flight, which is very rapid and 
most graceful. 
N the trout streams I am most 
familiar with, like the upper Dela- 
ware, Beaverkill, Willowemoc, and the 
adjacent ponds round about the edge 
of the Catskills, they are very numer- 
ous, each pair of birds confining them- 
selves to a limited locality; in such 
places as these, it would be impossible 
to shoot them, the rivers being lined 
with a rich vegetation, with scarcely 
an open spot, and I doubt very much 
that a sportsman would bag a single 
bird after a long day’s tramp, though 
plenty of them are heard and also seen 
—but, like the lightning, as quickly dis- 
appear. 
Tt will identify you, 
