The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-01-04

SnoWb1rds are supposed by many to be
species OF our summer birds that stay
with us rather than fly South, but &C.
cording to Vol. 2, Part 2 of the state
de0log1st. just received, they breed in
the Canadas and make their first appear
ance here about the middle of November,
and remain with US until the middle of
March. They are slate gray, but fire.
quently their plumage becomes very mot
Tied in March, giving them a handsome
appearance.
The Newton Herald says that James
Butler, the champion hunter of Pochuck,
shot q wildcat along the edge OF the
drowned land swamps. near Jacob
Drew's, last week. The inhabitants are
expecting to hear wolves bowling this
winter.
Gardner Storms, Of Greenwood Lake.
had rather peculiar experience last
Thursday. While out hunting he killed
four ducks with the first barrel, but the
second barrel bursted and the gun
dropped into the boat. He escaped nnin-
lured.
Nelson Lockwood and his son Charles.
OF North Long Branch, caught 5000
pounds of Goldfish in one day last week.
The Warwick Dispatch says, among
other things about bears, thai there is a
tame bear with ring in his nose and
three links Of chain attached, roaming
about on the Warwick mountains and
soaring the natives. The bear is said to
have escaped from an Italian who
dropped the performing bear business to
go to work at the Clinton Falls or
Oak Ridge reservoir. Then dipping
into history. the artist Of the Dispatch
says:
THE last bear shot in this vicinity was
killed by Messrs. Webb and Weaver
about twenty-seven years ago, and his
skin is doing duty as arug In a Vernon
home Along in the '5U's Ed, Ryerson's
father, Richard Ryerson, came into close
quarters with a half grown cub in Cedar
swamp, Greenwood Lake, and in hand
to hand fight killed it with his pocket
knife. Our aged townsman, John Lott,
now ninety-seyen years old. was cele-
brated bear hunter. and In his life time
has killed six bears in these mountains
One of them he chased for eight days and
then had TO drag the carcass, weighing
40 pounds, for considerable distance
over the crust of snow to The main road
This is all, and a little more, than we
know about bears"
Then he gives picture of bear which
has evidently been raiding an Orange
county distillery.
Many English hares have been killed in
different parts of the State this fall, and
a Newarker who received & pair last week
from friend in Burlington county said
that they were so numerous there that
they were a nuisance sThis can hardly be
true, for the English hare is. in everything
but size, like our little cotson-tail hare,
commonly called rabbit, and does not
burrow or bring forth large broods of
young. 1t lives entirely on the surface
and is the prey of host of enemies. The
English rabbit has become a nuisance in
Australia, because it brings forth large
broods Of young at all seasons OF the year
and they have the protection of burrow
Still, If the hares are really u nuisance in
Burlington county. the Essex sportsmen
are willing to take few of them to put
out here.
Superintendent Akarman, of the New
ark Passenger Railroad Company, was at
the Fuller House, Greenwood Lake, last
week and caught fine lot Of pIckerel by
fishing through the ice.
Splendid lake trout. frozen solid and
brought by express from upper New
York State, are selling in the market for
fifteen cents pound.
On the last day of the shooting season
7. G. Zabriskie, w. Oelting and John O.
Grode, of Hackensack, got nineteen rab-
bits and an opossum near Arcola, Bergen
county.