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so the wings are left free to dangle at their full length, 
making it almost impossible to put them in their proper 
place on the bird’s sides or back. When the skin has been 
returned, smooth down the plumage, prick out the eye 
holes in their proper shape with the point of a needle or 
small tweezers. Close the bill together by passing a needle 
aad thread through the nostril and base of lower mandable, 
and tying them together. Fill the skin out lightly and do 
not crowd it out of natural size by using too much stuffing. 
If the bird be a large one, a little cotton or tow should be 
wound around the leg bones. When the skin is filled, sew 
up the open space where the body has been taken out, 
cross the legs, and tie them loosely together with thread, 
put the skin in a paper ferule (pinned together) to keep the 
wings in position, and put it away todry. When dry, 
dust the skin with the wing of some bird, and the specimen 
is ready for the cabinet. 
For small birds cotton is best for: stuffing material; but 
with the larger birds, such as ducks, gulls, hawks, &c., &c., 
I would recommend sea grass or excelsior. 
An ordinary penknife and tweezers will answer for mak- 
ing small skins, but the following tools will greatly facili- 
tate making skins: 1 pair dissecting scissors; 1 pair forceps; 
1 pair small tweezers, and1 scalpel. A brain spoon can 
be made by flattening one end of a piece of wire, (brass 
wire is best,) and putting the other end in ahandle. The 
next article will be on mounting birds. J. HW. Barry. 
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THE NEW YORK ASSOCIATION FOR THE 
PROTECTION OF GAME. 
pos wakes 
On Monday evening last a meeting of this most useful 
Association for the Protection of Game was held at the res- 
idence of Royal Phelps, Esq., in this city. The attendance 
was a good one, comprising many of our leading sports- 
men. The counsel for the club gave an interesting account 
of the prosecutions entered into by the Association since 
the commencement of this season. Some twenty-seven 
suits had been brought into court for infringements of the 
State game laws, all of which, with the exception of three, 
had been decided in favor of the Association. Itis most 
gratifying to learn that, at least in the city, the game laws 
are pretty well observed, and that all first-class hotels and 
restaurants have given aid tothe society. Avery just com- 
plaint was made by the president in regard to the inaction 
of other associations in the Statc and throughout the coun- 
try for the preservation of game, who allowed the most 
flagrant cases of killing and marketing game to occur every 
day without taking proper notice of the same. The indif- 
ference of sportsmen in Connecticut, New Jersey and Long 
{sland was particularly commented on. Sportsmen should 
remember that the following rules are now in force:— 
Deer—Shall only be pursued and killed in the county 
of Suffolk, between the 10th day of October and the 10th 
day of November, in each year, under a penalty of $50, 
or imprisonment not exceeding three months. : 
Woodcock—Can only be killed or had in possession, be- 
tween the 3d day of July and the 1st day of January, nnder 
a penalty of $50 for each bird. ; ; 
Quail—Can only be killed, or had in possession, between 
the 20th day of October and the Ist day of January, under 
a penalty of $25. ; 
Trespass.—Any person who shall knowingly trespass 
upon lands for the purpose of shooting, hunting, or fishing 
thereon, after public notice by the owner or occupant 
thereof, as provided in the following section, shall be liable 
tosuch owner or occupant in exemplary damages to an 
amount not exceeding $100, and shall also be liable to such 
owner or occupant for the value of the game killed or taken. 
The possesion of implements of shooting or fishing shall be 
presumptive evidence of the purpose of the trespass. ; 
Sign-boards—The notice referred to in the preceding 
section shall be given by erecting and maintining sign-boards, 
at least one foot square, in at least two conspicuous places 
on the premises; such notices to have appended thereto the 
name of the owner or occupant; and any person who shall 
tear down or in any way deface or injure any such sign- 
board shall be liable ‘o a penalty of $100. 
Catching Trout—No person shall, at any time, catch any 
speckled trout with any device save a hook and line except 
for the purpose of propagation,.as hereinafter provided, or 
place any net-lines in waters inhabited by them, under a 
penalty of $50 for each offence. md 
No person shall kill or expose for sale, or have in his or her 
possession after the same has been killed, any speckled trout, 
save only from the 15th day of March to the 15th day of 
September, under a penalty of $25 for each fish. But this 
section shall not prevent any person from catching trout 
with nets, in waters owned by them to stock other waters. 
Private Ponds—Every person who shall be convicted of 
wrongfully and wilfully taking any fish from any private 
pond, without the consent of the owner thereof, shall be 
adjudged guilty of malicious trespass, and shall be 
liable to a penalty of three times the value of the fish taken, 
and shall also be liable to indictment for a misdemeanor, 
and on conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in a 
county jail not exceeding thirty days, or by a fine not ex- 
ceeding $250, or by both fine and imprisonment. 
i 
The manatee at Central Park is dead. We doubt if his 
demise will have much effect upon men at ease in general, 
however much it may affect our men of science in par} 
ticular. 

$<. 
—We are so overwhelmed by the tidal wave of green- 
backs which comes careering in upon us in these hard times, 
that we begin to think it a great ‘‘bore.” Dwellers on the 
riparian precincts of the Bay of Fundy will appreciate the 
under-current of wit and humor which flows silently though 
deeply beneath this ultramarine quidity. 
(Hep 
—The article entitled ‘‘ Narrow Escapes” and printed in 
last number of Forest anp Stream should have been 
credited to Charles Lanman, Esq. 

Sporting Glews from Abroad. 
.C HALL it be thelight or dark blue, from Cambridge or 
Oxford, Balliol or Jesus, who will be the future cham- 
pions of the oar? Just now the English university men are 
hard at work, (a spell of bad weather has. kept them back 
for a while,) but thews and muscles are at it again, and oars 
bend until they snap, and coxswains scold, and ‘‘coaches” 
howl anathemas at the crews.2How the picked men settle 
to their work, and who shall be “‘bow” or who ‘‘stroke” ig 
definitely determined. On the 18th of this month the Colqu- 
houn race will take place. When the great event does come 
off, time, speed and endurance will we feel sure be quite 
satisfactory. Undoubtedly these English University men 
are the best oarsmen of the day, and it behoves us to accept 
this fact with the best possible grace, though we must con- 
sider the tone of assumption of such prowess, as we find 
used in some of our English contemporaries, as rather em- 
anating from the journalistic writer, than representing the 
expression of the University oarsmen. That they can 
beat our rowing in the United States is certain; that at least 
for the present we all accepted such defeat without a mur- 
mur is very su-e, but we think all bluster,on the part of 
the victors as out of place. It is bad policy on the part of the 
English journalists toswagger about such matters, and su- 
percilious references to the ‘‘polishing off of Yankee crews,” 
are as untimely as they are out of place. We shall be per- 
fectly resigned for a score of years to take second place, 
and be their pupils, hoping that if not in this generation at 
least in the next we may equal them. Can there be any 
good reason why an University crew cannot come over 
here? If a picked eleven of the best cricketing gentlemen 
with Grace at their head, paid us a visit and trounced us 
badly, would it be the least “‘infra dig,” for the University 
gentlemen to honor us with their presence? We promise 
them a most cordial reception. They need have no fear of 
newspaper inquisitions, or interviewing pests, for they 
would be the welcomed guests of every boat club in the 
United States. Returning to our English boatmen, the 
Forest AND STREAM reviewer, must for the thousandth 
time, call attention to the fact, that the training of the 
English oarsman is first commenced in his school days. 
Then he plays cricket, foot ball, and gets himself into con- 
dition. In looking over the columns of our contemporaries 
we see that just now, all the boys at the public schools, 
from such famed cradles of learning as Charterhouse and 
Westminster, and from a hundred others of minor repute, 
are all at work at foot-ball. 
—Like Alexander the great, who sighed because he had 
no other world to conquer, so W. G. Grace having subdued 
all the realms of cricket, has been forced to find other shores 
where he could reap fresh laurels, always providing this 
much prized tree grows in the anomalous country where 
he has gone tc, Last month the cricket Leviathan, with a 
tremendous cricketing eleven left for Melbourne. The 
cricketers will arrive in Australia sometime next month, in 
the summer of that strange country. Of course the wickets 
in Ultima Thule, will go down just as rapidly as they did 
in our New World, and the casual kangaroo in some Aus- 
tralian glade, getting in the way of one of Grace’s lost balls, 
hit slashingly with his bat, will get killed as unerringly as 
if the marsupial had been struck with a native boom- 
erang. Say what you will, there is something grand in the 
idea of these Englishmen, stalking the wide world over, 
like the conquering Goths of old, and becoming the victors 
in every field of athletics from one Continent to the other, 
—Of shooting we hear little. St. Partridge must be sought 
for it seems in foreign lands, so we have only meagre ac- 
counts of some adventurous Englishmen getting occasional 
birds in France and Belgium. The stags, however, conw 
forward in prominence. Noble fellows they must be, as 
we hear of some killed weighing over three hundred pounds. 

—Polo has been resumed, and the ponies and riders are 
again being kept to their mettle, there having been a famous 
match between Liverpool and Manchester lately, one match 
having been closely contested for an hour and a half. 
What kind of ball should be used in polo, has not yet been 
exactly decided. Willow and box wood are suggested for 
England. Would it be considered as a presumption on our 
part to ask, whether such a thing as game of a polo could be 
played in New York? Have we no good riders among us? 
If it was but a second or third rate imitation of the thing, 
could not a riding school, (there are plenty such in New 
York, and quite good equestrians attending them) attempt 
it? Can our gentlemen do anything else than amble in 
the park? Cavalry officers might start it, and civilians 
would follow. 
—There has been quite a long bycicle ride just announced 
in England, a distance of six hundred and six miles having 
been accomplished in nine days, with the most easy going. 
—Newmarket has secured the services of the Prince of 
Wales, who at the last meeting of the Jockey Club, took 
for the first time his place in the Legislative chambers. One 
of the questions under his most august deliberation was in 
regard to changing some of the restrictions in regard to 
racing two year old horses. Possibly as the English horse 
increases in leggyness, and according to the development 
theory, can better withstand the hot-hed forcing system, so 
opposite to nature, and when at the same time the English 
turfite will in exact inverse proportion lose his common 
sense, when this happy period arrives, we may expect one 
year old races, or cups established for foals before they are 
fully weaned. 
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A SineuLar Fact—To-day will be yesterday to-morrow. 
Sea and River Sishing. 
FISH IN SEASON IN NOVEMBER. 
—— + : 
Coast Fis. LAKES. 
Bluefish, Skipjack, Horse Mackerel, Black Bass, (Jic) opterus nig 
(Temnodon saltator.) and archigan.) (two species. 
Weakfish, Squetaug (Trout) O¢oli- Pickerel, (Hsow reticulatus.) 
thus.) 
Bays AND EsTuARIES. 
Striped Bass, Rockfish. (Labrax lineatus.) 
SOUTHERN WATERS. 
Pompano. Trout, (Black Bass.) Sheepshead. 
Snapper. Drum, (two species.) Tailorfish . 
Grouper. Kingfish. Sea Bass. 
Rockfish. 
——_~—__—— 
—Our readers are doubtless aware of what is being done by 
the United States in regard to the multiplication of salmon 
in American waters, and especially, at the establishment at 
Bucksport, Maine, where six hundred salmon have been 
kept penned up during the summer for the purpose of 
securing their spawn at the proper season. The period for 
taking this spawn has now arrivedjand Mr. Atkins, the Super- 
intendent, eommenced this work on the 27th of October, 
and it is expected that from two to four millions of eggs 
will be secured during the season. 
—There is a splendid display of Chesapeake sheepshead 
on the market slabs this week, large, dark, and in very fine 
condition. We have also seen some sea-bass that would 
turn the scarles at ten pounds’ weight. 
—Seth Green and brother have returned to Rochester 
from their month’s labor near Cape Vincent, St. Lawrence 
River, bringing with them two million trout eggs which 
will be hatched at the State Hatching House at Mumford 
and then distributed. The government is now busily 
gathering white fish ova at Detroit and sundry places on 
Lake Ontario, and salmon trout eggs in Georgian Bay. The 
Messrs. Green lost three of their fishermen who were drown- 
ed from a sailboat on the 4th instant. 
—Ovr attentive correspondent at Cornell University, is 
at. angler as well as a boatman, and states from his own ex- 
perience, that the black bass will take a fly during part of 
the season at least under certain conditions of the weather. 
He says:— 
““ Whether the weather has any thing to do with the bit- 
ing, is beyond my power to say; but one day they will take 
bait readily and not touch the fly; on the next, with a slight 
change in wind or atmosphere, they will rise to the fly and 
hardly notice bait. My experience as regards bass fishing 
has been confined mostly to the lakes of central New York. 
’ 
Bass are caught during the entire fishing season, but the 
best time, when they bite the most readily, in fact the 
sporting time, is during the latter part of July and the 
months of August and September; and it is during these 
months, almost solely, that they will rise toa fly. As to 
the time of day: from 7 P. M. till it is so dark you can’t 
see where your fly drops. Where to fish: on the edge of a 
sloping bank, where the water is from ten to fifteen feet 
deep, and off from which the water drops to unknown 
depths, or over a submerged island, where the water is of 
about the same depth as on the bank, Fly to use: white 
miller, red ibis, or any bright colored (red, ect,) small 
sized salmon fly. Almost any thing used upon the hook in 
place of the fly, as a bit of red flannel, a grasshopper, a 
piece of pork or fish, will attract their attention and prove 
so seductive that they will be induced to cultivate your in- 
timate acquaintance. Trolling along the edge of the bank, 
just at dusk, with forty to sixty feet of line out, and a red 
fly is also very killing. I have known black bass to be 
caught with the fly in such places as above mentioned, 
varying from a half to seven pounds in weight as fast as 
the flies could be cast, and the gamey fish killed and brought 
into the boat, the fly scarcely touching the water before it 
would be taken. This occurred in the month of August, 
day after day, from 5 to6 P. M., when the fish began to 
bite, till 9 or 10 o’clock atnight. The moon shone brightly, 
so that one could see almost as well as in the day time. 
Undoubtedly bass bite differently in different parts of the 
country, and the experience of others in other places may 
be entirely at varience with mine in the central part of this 
State. H. 
—The fish-way long demanded at Holyoke Dam, on the 
Connecticut river, has at last been finished, and the Con- 
necticut Fish Commissioners, with those of the other New 
England States, are to meet at Holyoke during the present 
month. The fish-way is constructed on the South Hadley 
Falls side of the river, and will give shad, salmon, and all 
anadramous fish ample chance to pass the dam that has so 
long obstructed their course to the upper waters. The cost 
of the work was $25,000. The Hartford Post says: ‘‘The 
State appropriated $12,000 in 1869 for its construction, and 
assigned the construction thereof to the Holyoke Water 
Power Company. But that company wouldn’t touch the 
money, nor would it build the fish-way, and thus the mat- 
ter got into the courts, where it was finally decided that 
the water power company must construct the ‘‘way” and 
bear the expense. 
ing it to Messrs. D. H. & J. C. Newton of Holyoke, by 
whom it was completed Thursday, Oct. 30th. The struc- 
ture really begins in a pool about 350 feet below the sheet of 
the dam, extending thence fifty feet down the current, and 
for this distance is all the way under the water at its pres- 
ent height, which is no less than during most of the spring- 
time. At the end of the fifty feet the flume makes aright 
angle toward the east, connecting with the other section 
that is close to the river bank, and makes the rise of about 
22 feet to the top of the canal in a distance of about 400 
feet. Its total width is 15 feet, and 18 feet inthe clear. 
The plan of the structure is something like a system of 
They then gave the contract for build 

