The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-19
GAME BIRDS AND ANIMALS ~
THE PHILIPPINES.
From Field and Stream.

From Field and Stream.
In many ways our new possessions In
the Orient are well entitled to be styled
a hunters paradise, for although about
the only sport now being INDUCED in is that
Of hunting insurgent bands the islands OF
tho Philippine archipelago are filed with
game animals and game birds swarm In
the forests snd jungles, while the inland
waters In many instance are literally covered
with many varieties Of water fowls.
For those who incline TO hunting big game
there il the boar, a fierce and savage beast
which runs wild among the dense tropical
junglee where ~cocoanuts and other tropical
fruits afford abundance OF food 70 atiat
his carnivorous appetite. All over the
wooded parts OF Luzon great numbers
Of deer roam, being little troubled by the
natives, who are not much given 70 hunting
and who have little craving for a meat diet.
During those days when our army lay In
Manila Immediately after its fall there
were many hunting excursions into the
interior and plenty Of big game was usually
baeged. Many OF the soldiers Of tho Eighth
Army Corps. the Volunteer army c: ccoupa-
ton In Manila, nave now In their possession
fine antlcrs secured on these hunting trips.
and fine specimens they are; for the Philip
pine antler is possessed Of the same liberal
growth that strawberries most animal
life on those islands. the wiry little Filipino
being about he only exception to this
general rule.
While monkeys, which seem 20 be moro
numerous than most any other wild animal
10 be found o.. the islands, are not TO be
considered in the legitimate class OF game
vet one can scarcely resist the temptation
TO try q shot at the leader OF the great army
OF these chattering creatures which Is
always present in the picturesque jungles
Of Luzon, Mindanao, Negros. Panay and
the other Islands. Coming down TO smaller
game, the tagua or guigus. a kind OF Tying
squirrel, seems TO be in every tree. and
a rather odd webbed-foot furry animal
Il is. The natives make pets Of his queer
squirrel. and one can see hundreds dis
played In cages about Manila. Another
little animal which attracts ones attention
,n the Philippine jungles Ii the masigen,
II Is a natural enemy OF rats and mice,
but has no value 90 the sportsman. YAM
nires and great bats fit aimlessly past one
tn the stiffness Of these tropical wood
lands, and parrots and other tropical bTds
in their brilliant plumage are ever pres,
ent wherever there In foliago lh uie HAhu
| OF everlasting summer:
While game was plentiful everywhere
I'm the iunRles In those days before the
Fllpiuo resurrection opened there Was
"A time. after the fighting IN tho JungIe7
about Manila began. that almost an ailiha.
life disappearcd before the onslaught oil
our forces The heavy firing kept up
plg Z and day for a time drove the WHO
| ,LIngs lacf into the m untains, but as the
aahtinR subsidized they gradually Nentuitu
bach 70 their fAvonte hAufts along 'lo
rivers and streams, and to-day one can
80 plenty of game within a dozen ml'e-
~ lie cauital. but az yet II u not sale W
venture even that distance Ia quest oil
snort. for the insurgents bands and ule
briEands never lose az opportuhlty 70
WaVlay an American who chances 70 u"
found outsids tho military lines.
I'm the days befoTs DeWsys guns bssan
,hsir Tusulade against the lnsui gent posi-
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