Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-06-02
FORFEIT Asp STREAM.

coming quite plenty.
Enelishmen who love pigeon shooting, in
spite OF H. Z. n. of Wales, can enjoy it in
Rome, in which it is still considered per-
missible sport.
An eight hundred pound cinnamon bear
was killed in Santa Barbara county last
week. The animal was accompanied by
three cubs. which escaped.
"The Maine trout brooks are reported
to be lined with fishermen" The fish must
be unusually large to be able to get the best
OF so many stalwart anglers.
Chicago market hunters have heretofore
drawn SO heavily upon the deer product of
| Wisconsin, that the latter passed q law
prohibiting its shipment out OF the State.
Chicago is to have dog show com.
mencing June 18th. Charles Lincoln,
whose knowledge of dog shows is supposed
to include all there is worth knowing, will
be the superintendent.
A German carp, weighing 81 pounds and
measuring 81 inches in length, is said to
have been taken from the Monocacy river
| lately. This species of fish is also fire.
quently captured in the James river.
|
Yuba City, and has nineteen members.
Last week they received new double.
revolving trap and large supply OF glass
balls. The club will hold weekly shoots.
The Chinese department of the London
| Fisheries Exhibition is unique and inter-
esting The Calestials have arranged a
separate court, with picturesque pagoda
and bridge, making very attractive feature
OF the exhibit.
If correspondents will kindly favor
Forest and Stream of the RECORD UNION,
for publication, notes of favorable and de-
sirable game resorts and localities for camp
ing parties, they will be appreciated oy
fellow. sportsmen.
A shad net in Quinnipac river, at North
Haven, was SO heavily loaded with fish that
Charles Thomas, while helping to pull the
netashore, lost his footing and was drowned.
His body was drawn ashore in the net with
twenty bushels of fish.
The Wilson or American snipe is the
proper name of what is 80 commonly but
enormously called "English snipe," and
also by some "iack snipe." The English
snipe and the jack snipe have never yet
been found on the Pacific coast.
Eighty. eight thousand young shad were
placed in the Neuse river last week. They
were Matched at the State fish ponds at
Charlotte, n. c., from eggs brought from
Avocs Just 100, 900 eggs were sent up by
Mr.. Worth, so only $1,000 failed to hatch.
Bay fishing is at its hight, and the crowds
that are content to stand around the water
front waiting for a bite invariably come
away with a good string of fish. AT Alca'
traz the soldiers have been successful with
smelt and tomcods, occasionally hooking
large rockcods. -[Sportsman.
A Truckee dispatch says After almost
two months of rain, hail and snow the sum
mer season has at last fairly set in over the
mountains. Crowds of tourists are fiockine
hither from San Francisco and the foothills
on their way to Lakes Tahoe, Bonner, hide
psndence, the Hot Springs and other re-
sorts. Trout fishing at the lakes is report
ed as excellent.
The crack shots of Amador City and
Suffer Creek met in the first-named place
last Sunday, and spent pleasant time IL
trying their skill on clay pigeons at twelve
made: A. Cook, II E. VOORHEES,, 8 c.
Fourier, IL R P. Lepley, s; G. Arditto
IL; ]. Hardy, 10; F. Harrington, 7; 7
Mugford, -[Amador Sentinel.
There is no such bird in existence or
our coast or in North America as the black
curlew. Hunters and sportsmen have
enormously applied that name to mosi
beautiful bird, found in some seasons il
abundance in California. The bill is Ions
and curved like that of the long bill OF
gray curlew, and hight, size and genera
shape of body are also nearly the same
Its color, however, is glossy bronze
black, and it is called properly "Glossy
Ibis. :"
One of the most painstaking students Of
fishing and fish culture Barnet Phillips
remarks The advent of Penobscot salmon
is worthy of notice. Four fine fish were
taken in the river on the 4sh of May, the
smallest fish weighing 10 pounds, the
largest % pounds. A salmon was also
taken off North Truro, Mass, on the %
of May. Last year about 900 pounds were
caught in the same locality. This fact
shows that salmon stay in the salt water
not far from the rivers.
at the shooting match at Biggs Station,
says the 0roville Mercury, the first contest
was a match between j. I. Mcintosh, OF
Chico, and George Ditzler, of Biggs, for
500 side. After shooting twenty. five
shots each the match was drawn and all
bets declared off. This was followed by
pool-shooting, in which Ed. Pearson, of
| Nelson, took the first prize of S33, with a
score of ten birds w. j. Morgan second,
$27 so; N. B. Scott, of Nelson, third, SD
Lon Rose fourth, SIG 80, and A. Sigar, of
Gridley, fifth, sll.
An authentic and reliable work on the
Water Birds of North America, and espe-
ciaIly Of California and the Pacific slope,
! is very much needed. On the completion
of the geological survey of California under
Prof. Whitney, completed over ten years
ago, among other works pertaining thereto
one on Land Birds was issued the other,
on Water Birds, it was promised should
soon follow. Up to the present time it has
not appeared. We earnestly hope that our
next Legislature will make an appropri-
alton for that purpose.
The newspapers of the State have been
| publishing an item to the effect that Mrs.
| j, G.. Tolman, of Jackson county recently
procured for her carp pond one OF those
excellent fish, which cost her S32. That
is pretty large sum for one little fish, but
it is trifiing when compared with the ex-
perience of N. R. Barber, the popular
Postmaster of Corvallis. In order to relieve
the monotony of official life, last summer,
he procured a suitable fishing outfit and
went into the Coast mountains in quest OF
game. After an absence of three days, he
returned to his familiar post, having caught
one trout, which cost him S90.-[Corvallis
(0r) Gazette.
The killing of song birds in New York is
allowed only for scientific purposes. This
privilege is abused, and specimens SO killed
find their way into millinery stores as orna-
ments for ladies' hats. California is not
favored with many varieties of high-colored
birds. We have no law for protection of
such birds at any time of the year. One
party is known to US who, in two spring
seasons, has had killed for him about Sac
ramento over three thousand. A recent
letter from dealer states that the Euro
pean and Eastern markets are 30 over
stocked with California bird-skins that
they command ne price at all. In nearly
all Eastern States these birds are protected,