Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others

by James A. Henshall

He listened to this apparently very doubtfully, and frowned fiercely, but kept silent until he filled and lighted his pipe; then, after scanning the horizon, he said meekly:—

"I think we'll be goin' 'ome, sir; it looks werry squally in the sou' east."

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INDEX

• Albula vulpes, ladyfish[, 355,][ 361.]
• Ambloplites rupestris, rock-bass, [2], [52]
• Anchovy, banded, [320],
• big, [320]
• silver, [320]
• Angel-fish, [384,]
• description, [385,]
• tackle and fishing, [386]
• Angling, fresh-water, [341,]
• salt-water, [341]
• Anisotremus virginicus, pork-fish, [323],[ 334.]
• Aplodinotus grunniens, fresh-water drum, [232.]
• Archoplites interruptus, Sacramento perch, [2], [57]
• Archosargus probatocephalus, sheepshead, [251], [252]
• Arctic grayling, [176]
• coloration, [177], [178]
• description, [177], [178]
• Argyrosomus artedi sisco, cisco, [204], [207]
• Artificial flies, [20], [21]
• rules for, [21]
• Artificial key to pike species, [121], [122]
• Bachelor, [80]
• Balistes carolinensis, turbot, [390]
• Banded pickerel, [121]
• description, [154]
• tackle and fishing, [155]
• Bank lick bass, [73]
• Barb, [221]
• Bar-fish, [80]
• Bass, bank lick, [73]
• big-fin, [74]
• black, large-mouth, [30]
• black, small-mouth, [3]
• brassy, [90]
• calico, [73]
• family, [85]
• fresh-water striped, [86]
• grass, [73]
• Lake Erie, [74]
• rock, [52], [115]
• sea, [115]
• sea, Gulf, [119]
• sea, southern, [118]
• silver, [73]
• strawberry, [73]
• striped, [96]
• white, [86]
• white lake, [86]
• yellow, [90]
• Bastard margaret, [330]
• Bastard weakfish, [221]
• description, [221]
• habits and habitat, [222]
• Beach-fleas, [321]
• Bermuda chub, [382]
• description, [382]
• tackle and fishing, [383], [384]
• Besugo, [231]
• Big-fin bass, [74]
• Bitter-head, [74]
• Black-bass, small-mouth, [3]
• description, [1][-6,]
• gameness, [10][-15.]
• Black-bass [continued]—
• habits and habitat, [7][-9,]
• tackle and fishing, [15][-29.]
• Black-bass, large-mouth, [30]
• description, [31]
• gameness, [34], [35]
• habits and habitat, [32][-43,]
• spawning and nesting, [33][-43,]
• tackle and fishing, [36][-52.]
• Blackfish, [115]
• Black grunt, [323]
• description, [323]
• tackle and fishing, [326]
• Black harry, [115]
• Black sea-bass, [115]
• Black sunfish, [58]
• Black will, [115]
• Blue bream, [62]
• Bluefish, [115]
• Blue gill, [62]
• Blue perch, [264]
• Blue sunfish, [62]
• description, [62]
• tackle and fishing, [64]
• Bodianus fulvus, nigger-fish, [287], [300]
• Bone-fish, [355], [361]
• Bonito, [282]
• description, [282]
• tackle and fishing, [283]
• Bony-fish, [361]
• Boy and tobacco-box, [67]
• Boyhood days, [72]
• Bream, blue, [62]
• copper-nosed, [62]
• red-breast, [68]
• Bridge perch, [74]
• Bubbler, [232]
• Burgall, [264]
• Calamus arctifrons, grass porgy, [348], [353]
• Calamus bajonado, jolt-head porgy, [347], [348]
• Calamus calamus, saucer-eye porgy, [348], [350]
• Calamus proridens, little-head porgy, [348], [352]
• Calico-bass, [73]
• description, [74]
• habits and habitat, [75]
• tackle and fishing, [75]- [78]
• Campbellite, [80]
• Cancer, common crab genus, [320]
• Cape May goody, [231]
• Carangidæ, cavalli family, [306]
• Carangus crysos, runner, [306], [307]
• Carangus latus, horse-eye jack, [306], [310]
• Carp, German, [236]
• leather, [237]
• mirror, [237]
• scale, [237]
• Catfish, blue, [247]
• channel, [244]
• chuckle-head, [247]
• eel, [247]
• family, [244]
• forked-tail, [247]
• white, [245]
• willow, [247]
• Cavalli family, [306]
• Centrarchidæ, sunfish family, [1]
• Centropomus undecimalis, snook, [366]
• Centropristes ocyurus, Gulf sea-bass, [119]
• Centropristes philadelphicus, southern sea-bass, [118]
• Centropristes striatus, sea-bass, [96], [115]
• Cero, [278]
• description, [278]
• habits and habitat, [278], [279]
• tackle and fishing, [279][-281.]
• Chænobryttus gulosus, warmouth, [2], [58]
• Chætodipterus faber, angel-fish, [384]
• Chætodipterus faber, angel-fish, [384]
• Channel catfish, [244]
• description, [245]
• tackle and fishing, [245][-247.]
• Channel fishes, [316]
• tackle and bait, [317], [318]
• Chincapin perch, [74]
• Chogset, [264]
• Chopa blanca, [231]
• Chub, [231]
• Cisco, [207]
• description, [208]
• tackle and fishing, [209], [210]
• Clupeidæ, herring family, [319]
• Cobia, [373]
• description, [374]
• tackle and fishing, [375], [376]
• Cobió, [375]
• Commercial fishing, Key West, [316], [317]
• Common sunfish, [69]
• description, [70]
• tackle and fishing, [71]- [73]
• Conchs, [318]
• Conclusion, [393]
• Coney, [286], [299]
• description, [299]
• tackle and fishing, [300]
• Copper-nosed bream, [62]
• Coral fishes, [328]
• polyps, [328]
• reefs, [327], [389], [390]
• Coralline formation, Florida reefs, [316]
• Coregonus williamsoni, Rocky Mountain whitefish, [203], [204]
• Coregonus williamsoni cis-montanus, [204], [205]
• Crab, common, [320]
• fiddler, [320]
• hermit, [320]
• lady, [320]
• mud, [320]
• spider, [320]
• stone, [320]
• Crappie, [73], [79]- [80]
• description, [80], [81]
• tackle and fishing, [82], [83]
• Croaker, [226], [232]
• description, [226], [227]
• tackle and fishing, [228]
• Crocus, [227]
• Croppie, [73], [80]
• Cunner, [263], [264]
• description, [264]
• tackle and fishing, [265], [266]
• Cynoscion nebulosus, spotted weakfish, [376]
• Cynoscion nothus, bastard weakfish, [221]
• Cynoscion regalis, weakfish, [214], [215]
• Cynoscion thalassinus, deep-sea weakfish, [381]
• Cypress trees, giant, [61], [62]
• Cyprinidæ, minnow family, [236]
• Cyprinus carpio, German carp, [236]
• Darky and catfish, [248]
• Deep-sea weakfish, [381]
• description, [381]
• tackle and fishing, [381]
• Diplectrum formosum, sand-fish, [287], [303]
• Dog snapper, [344]
• description, [344]
• tackle and fishing, [345]
• Drum family, [213], [232]
• fresh-water, [232]
• Eastern pickerel, [149]
• description, [149], [150]
• tackle and fishing, [151], [152]
• Elops saurus, ten-pounder, [361]
• Engraulididæ, anchovy family, [319], [320]
• Epinephelus adscensionis, rock hind, [286], [295]
• Epinephelus adscensionis, rock hind, [286], [295]
• Epinephelus guttatus, red hind, [286], [297]
• Esocidæ, pike family, [120]
• Esox americanus, banded pickerel, [121], [154]
• Esox lucius, pike, [121], [137]
• Esox nobilior, mascalonge, [120], [121], [122]
• Esox reticulatus, eastern pickerel, [121], [149]
• Esox vermiculatus, western pickerel, [121], [153]
• Eupagurus, hermit crab genus, [320]
• Eupomotis gibbosus, common sunfish, [3], [69]
• Fascination of the float, [71]
• Fishes not sensitive to pain, [114]
• Fishing through ice, [145], [146]
• with the cork, [72]
• Flasher, [371]
• Flatfish, [266]
• Float, fascination of, [71]
• Florida Keys, [341]
• Flounder, [263], [266]
• description, [266], [267]
• tackle and fishing, [268]
• Fresh-water drumfish, [232]
• description, [232], [233]
• tackle and fishing, [234], [235]
• Frozen fish reviving, [78], [79], [147]
• Gag, [285], [287]
• description, [288]
• tackle and fishing, [289]- [290]
• Gammurus, shrimp genus, [321]
• Gaspergou, [232]
• Gelasimus, fiddler crab genus, [320]
• Generals Sheridan and Stager, [77]
• German carp, [236]
• description, [236]- [238]
• tackle and fishing, [238]- [243]
• Giant cypress trees, [61], [62]
• Goggle-eye, [53]
• perch, [74], [80]
• Goody, [228]
• Cape May, [231]
• Grass-bass, [73]
• Grass porgy, [353]
• description, [353]
• tackle and fishing, [354]
• Grayling, Arctic, [176]
• description, [176], [177]
• fishing, [178]
• Grayling, English, [174]
• fishing, [191], [197]- [201]
• Grayling, Michigan, [178]
• fishing, [179]
• scarcity of, [179]- [181]
• Grayling, Montana, [181]
• description, [184], [185]
• gameness, [185], [186]
• propagation of, [194], [195]
• tackle and fishing, [188]- [193]
• Gribble, [321]
• Grouper family, [285]
• yellow-finned, [286], [294]
• Grunt, black, [323]
• boar, [327]
• common, [321], [323]
• family, [321]
• French, [331]
• gray, [331]
• margate, [329]
• s ow, [324]
• white, [329]
• yellow, [322], [326]
• Gulf sea-bass, [119]
• description, [119]
• habits and habitat, [119]
• Gymnosarda pelamis, oceanic bonito, [283]
• Hæmulidæ, grunt family, [321]
• Hæmulon album, margate-fish, [322], [328]
• Hæmulon album, margate-fish, [322], [328]
• Hæmulon flavolineatum, French grunt, [331]
• Hæmulon macrostomum, gray grunt, [331]
• Hæmulon parra, sailor's choice, [322], [330]
• Hæmulon plumieri, black grunt, [321], [323]
• Hæmulon sciurus, yellow grunt, [322], [326]
• Hannahills, [115]
• Hard-tail, [309]
• Henshall rod, [25]
• Hind, brown, [296]
• John Paw, [296]
• red, [286], [297]
• rock, [286], [295]
• spotted, [296]
• Hippa, sand-bug genus, [321]
• Hog-fish, [331], [333]
• Holocentrus ascensionis, squirrel-fish, [388]
• Horse-eye Jack, [306], [310]
• description, [310]
• tackle and fishing, [310]
• Hybrids, [309]
• Ichthyophagous dog, [284]
• Ictalurus anguilla, eel-cat, [247]
• Ictalurus furcatus, chuckle-head cat, [247]
• Ictalurus punctatus, channel-cat, [244]
• Jack, horse-eye, [310]
• Jack salmon, [157]
• Jolt-head porgy, [348]
• description, [348], [349]
• tackle and fishing, [350]
• Jurel, [309]
• Key to pike species, [121], [122]
• Kingfish, [221]
• description, [222]- [224]
• tackle and fishing, [224], [225]
• Kingfish-mackerel, [279], [280]
• Knot, for leader, [19]
• jam, for eyed hook, [19]
• Kyphosus sectatrix, Bermuda chub, [382]
• Lady anglers, [148], [149]
• Lady-fish, [355]
• Lafayette, [228]
• description, [229]
• tackle and fishing, [230], [231]
• Lagodon rhomboides, pin-fish, [330], [386]
• Lake Erie bass, [74]
• Lake-herring, [207]
• Lake-sheepshead, [232]
• Lamplighter, [74]
• Lane snapper, [339]
• description, [340]
• habits and habitat, [341]
• Large-mouth black-bass, [30]
• Leather-fish, [390]
• Leiostomus xanthurus, Lafayette, [214], [228]
• Lepomis auritus, red-breast sunfish, [67]
• Lepomis megalotis, long-eared sunfish, [65]
• Lepomis pallidus, blue sunfish, [62]
• Lewis and Clark, [181]- [183]
• Libinia, spider crab genus, [320]
• Limnoria, gribble genus, [321]
• Little Giant rod, [101], [102]
• Little-head porgy, [352]
• description, [352]
• tackle and fishing, [353]
• Lobotes pacificus, berrugate, [371]
• Lobotes surinamensis, triple-tail, [370]
• Long-eared sunfish, [65]
• description, [65]
• tackle and fishing, [66]
• Lucky stones, [233]
• Lutianidæ, snapper family, [336]
• Lutianus analis, mutton-fish, [347]
• Lutianus analis, mutton-fish, [347]
• Lutianus apodus, schoolmaster, [338], [345]
• Lutianus aya, red snapper, [337], [342]
• Lutianus griseus, mangrove snapper, [347]
• Lutianus jocu, dog snapper, [337], [344]
• Lutianus synagris, lane snapper, [337], [339]
• Mackerel family, [272]
• kingfish, [279]
• Spanish, [273]
• Margate fish, [328]
• description, [328], [329]
• tackle and fishing, [330]
• Mascalonge, [122]
• coloration, [127]- [129]
• description, [126], [127]
• distribution, [126]
• nomenclature, [122]- [126]
• tackle and fishing, [132]- [135]
• Maskinonge, [124]
• Menippe, stone crab genus, [320]
• Menticirrhus americanus, whiting, [225]
• Menticirrhus littoralis, silver whiting, [225]
• Menticirrhus saxatilis, kingfish, [221]
• Michigan grayling, [178]
• Micropogon undulatus, croaker, [214], [226]
• Micropterus dolomieu, small-mouth
• black-bass, [1], [3]
• Micropterus salmoides, large-mouth
• black-bass, [2], [30]
• Minnow family, [236]
• Minnow gangs, [143]
• Montana grayling, [181]
• Morone americana, white-perch, [95], [110]
• Morone interrupta, yellow-bass, [90]
• Mud-dab, [266]
• Mugil cephalus, common mullet, [319]
• Mugil curema, white mullet, [319]
• Mugil trichodon, fan-tail mullet, [319]
• Mugilidæ, mullet family, [319]
• Mullet, common, [319]
• fan-tail, [319]
• whirligig, [319]
• white, [319]
• Multiplying reel, invention of, [13]
• Muskellunge, [125]
• Mycteroperca falcata phenax, scamp, [286], [291]
• Mycteroperca microlepis, gag, [285], [287]
• Mycteroperca venenosa, yellow-fin grouper, [286], [294]
• Newlight, [80]
• Nigger-fish, [287], [300]
• description, [300], [301]
• tackle and fishing, [302]
• Not all of fishing to fish, [92]- [94]
• Oceanic bonito, [283]
• Ocyurus chrysurus, yellow-tail, [336], [338]
• Orchestia, beach-flea genus, [321]
• Orthopristis chrysopterus, pig-fish, [322], [330], [331]
• Osmerus mordax, smelt, [263], [269]
• Osprey on the fly, [64]
• Palinurus, sea-crawfish genus, [318]
• Palæmonetes, prawn genus, [321]
• Panopeus, mud crab genus, [320]
• Perca flavescens, yellow-perch, [165]
• Perch, black, [371]
• blue, [264]
• bridge, [74]
• chincapin, [74]
• family, [156]
• goggle-eye, [74], [80]
• pike, [157]
• raccoon, [166]
• red-bellied, [68]
• red-bellied, [68]
• ringed, [166]
• Sacramento, [57]
• warmouth, [58]
• white, [110], [234]
• yellow, [165]
• Percidæ, perch family, [156]
• Permit, [312]
• Petrometopon cruentatus, coney, [286], [299]
• Pickerel, banded, [154]
• brook, [154]
• eastern, [149]
• great northern, [137]
• Long Island, [154]
• reticulated, [149]
• western, [153]
• Pig-fish, [322], [330], [331]
• description, [331], [332]
• tackle and fishing, [333]
• Pike, [137]
• description, [137]- [140]
• fishing through ice, [144]- [146]
• tackle and fishing, [141]- [147]
• Pike family, [120]
• glass-eyed, [157]
• gray, [164]
• rattlesnake, [164]
• sand, [164]
• wall-eyed, [157]
• yellow, [157]
• Pike-perch, [157]
• description, [157]- [160]
• night fishing, [162]
• tackle and fishing, [161]- [163]
• Pikes, key to, [121], [122]
• Pin-fish, [386]
• description, [386], [387]
• tackle and fishing, [387]
• Piscatorial polemic, [44]
• Platyonichus, lady crab genus, [320]
• Pomoxis annularis, crappie, [3], [79]
• Pomoxis sparoides, calico-bass, [3], [73]
• Pompano, [311]
• description, [311]- [314]
• best of food-fishes, [312], [314]
• tackle and fishing, [313], [314]
• Pompano, common, [307], [311]
• gaff top-sail, [312]
• permit, [312]
• round, [312]
• Porgy, [259]
• big-head, [347], [348]
• family, [347]
• grass, [348], [353]
• jolt-head, [348]
• little-head, [348], [352]
• saucer-eye, [348], [350]
• Pork-fish, [323], [334]
• description, [334], [335]
• tackle and fishing, [335]
• Prawn, [321]
• Pseudopleuronectes americanus, flounder, [263], [266]
• Pumpkin-seed, [69]
• Pyrula, mollusk genus, [318], [339]
• Querimana gyrans, whirligig mullet, [319]
• Razor back, [74]
• Record fly-casting, [16]
• Red-bellied perch, [68]
• Red-breast bream, [68]
• Red-breast sunfish, [67]
• Red-eye, [53]
• Red hind, [286], [297]
• description, [297]
• tackle and fishing, [298]
• Red snapper, [342]
• description, [342]
• tackle and fishing, [343], [344]
• Red sunfish, [67]
• Reel, click, [17]
• Reel, multiplying, [13]
• Roach, [231]
• Roccus chrysops, white-bass, [86]
• Roccus lineatus, striped-bass, [95], [96]
• Roccus lineatus, striped-bass, [95], [96]
• Rock, [96]
• Rock-bass, [52]
• description, [53]
• tackle and fishing, [54]- [57]
• Rockfish, [96]
• Rock hind, [286], [295]
• description, [295], [296]
• tackle and fishing, [297]
• Rocky Mountain whitefish, [204]
• description, [204]
• tackle and fishing, [205], [206]
• Rod, Henshall, [25]
• Little Giant, [101], [102]
• Rovallia, [366]
• Rules for artificial flies, [21]
• Runner, [306], [307]
• description, [307]
• tackle and fishing, [308]
• Sac-a-lait, [80]
• Sacramento perch, [57]
• description, [57]
• tackle and fishing, [58]
• Sailor's choice, [330], [331], [386]
• description, [330]
• tackle and fishing, [331]
• Salmon family, [203]
• Salmonidæ, [203]
• Sand-bug, [321]
• Sand-fish, [287], [303]
• description, [303]
• tackle and fishing, [304]
• Sarda sarda, bonito, [273], [282]
• Sardine, silver, [319]
• striped, [319]
• Sardinella humeralis, silver sardine, [319]
• Sardinella sardinia, striped sardine, [319]
• Saucer-eye porgy, [350]
• description, [351]
• tackle and fishing, [352]
• Sauger, [164]
• description, [165]
• tackle and fishing, [165]
• Scamp, [286], [291]
• description, [292]
• tackle and fishing, [293]
• Schoolmaster, [345]
• description, [345], [346]
• tackle and fishing, [347]
• Sciænidæ, drum family, [213], [232]
• Scomberomorus cavalla, kingfish, [279], [280]
• Scomberomorus maculatus, Spanish mackerel, [272], [273]
• Scomberomorus regalis, cero, [272], [278]
• Scombridæ, mackerel family, [272]
• Scup, [259]
• description, [260]
• tackle and fishing, [261]
• Scuppaug, [259]
• Sea-bass, [115]
• description, [115], [116]
• tackle and fishing, [117], [118]
• Sea-bass, family, [95], [285]
• black, [115]
• Gulf, [119]
• southern, [118]
• Sea-crawfish, [318]
• Sergeant-fish, [366], [374]
• Serranidæ, bass family, [85], [95], [285]
• Shad, [80]
• Sheepshead, [252]
• description, [252]- [254]
• tackle and fishing, [255]- [259]
• Sheepshead family, [251]
• lake, [232]
• Sheridan and Stager, [77]
• Shrimp, [321]
• Siluridæ, catfish family, [244]
• Silver-bass, [74]
• Small-mouth black-bass, [3]
• Smelt, [263], [269]
• description, [269]
• tackle and fishing, [270], [271]
• tackle and fishing, [270], [271]
• Snapper, black, [371]
• dog, [337], [344]
• family, [336]
• lane, [337], [339]
• red, [337], [342]
• schoolmaster, [338], [345]
• Snook, [366]
• description, [366], [367]
• tackle and fishing, [368]- [370]
• Southern sea-bass, [118]
• description, [118]
• habits and habitat, [119]
• Spade-fish, [385]
• Spanish mackerel, [273]
• description, [273]- [275]
• tackle and fishing, [276]- [278]
• Sparidæ, porgy family, [251], [347]
• Speckled perch, [74], [80]
• Spot, [228]
• Spotted weakfish, [376]
• description, [377], [378]
• tackle and fishing, [379], [380]
• Squeteague, [215]
• Squirrel-fish, [388]
• description, [388]
• tackle and fishing, [389]
• Stenotomus chrysops, scup, [251], [259]
• Stenotomus aculeatus, fair maid, [259]
• Stizostedion canadense, sauger, [156], [164]
• Stizostedion vitreum, pike-perch, [156], [157]
• Stolephorus brownii, big anchovy, [320]
• Stolephorus mitchilli, silver anchovy, [320]
• Stolephorus perfasciatus, banded anchovy, [320]
• Strawberry-bass, [73]
• Striped-bass, [96]
• description, [96]- [100]
• f ly-fishing, [109]
• still-fishing, [101]
• surf-fishing, [104]- [108]
• tools and tackle, [101]- [105]
• Strombus, mollusk genus, [318], [339]
• Sunfish, black, [58]
• blue, [62]
• common, [69]
• family, [1]
• long-eared, [65]
• red-breast, [67]
• Susquehanna salmon, [157]
• Tally-wag, [119]
• Tautogolabrus adspersus, cunner, [263], [264]
• Ten-pounder, [361]
• description, [361], [362]
• tackle and fishing, [363]- [365]
• Thunder-pumper, [233]
• Thymallidæ, grayling family, [173]
• Thymallus montanus, Montana grayling, [173], [181]
• Thymallus signifer, Arctic grayling, [173], [176]
• Thymallus tricolor, Michigan grayling, [173], [178]
• Tip-ups, [146]
• Tobacco-box, [65]
• Toboggan episode, [92]- [94]
• Trachinotus carolinus, common pompano, [307], [311]
• Trachinotus falcatus, round pompano, [312]
• Trachinotus glaucus, gaff top-sail pompano, [312]
• Trachinotus goodei, permit pompano, [312]
• Triple-tail, [370]
• description, [370], [371]
• tackle and fishing, [372]
• Trolling-spoon, [141]- [143]
• Turbot, [390]
• description, [390], [391]
• habits and habitat, [392]
• habits and habitat, [392]
• Wall-eyed pike, [157]
• Warmouth perch, [58]
• description, [58], [59]
• tackle and fishing, [60]- [62]
• Weakfish, [215]
• description, [215]- [217]
• tackle and fishing, [218]- [220]
• Weakfish, bastard, [221]
• deep-sea, [381]
• northern, [214]
• spotted, [376]
• Western pickerel, [153]
• description, [153]
• tackle and fishing, [154]
• White-bass, [86]
• description, [86]
• tackle and fishing, [87]- [89]
• Whitefish, Rocky Mountain, [204]
• White lake-bass, [86]
• White-perch, [110], [234]
• description, [110], [111]
• tackle and fishing, [112], [113]
• Whiting, [221]
• Wonders of the sea, [327], [389], [390]
• Yellow-bass, [90]
• description, [90], [91]
• tackle and fishing, [92]
• Yellow-finned grouper, [294]
• description, [294]
• habits and habitat, [295]
• Yellow grunt, [326]
• description, [326]
• tackle and fishing, [327]
• Yellow-perch, [165]
• description, [165]- [167]
• tackle and fishing, [168]- [172]
• Yellow-tail, [338]
• description, [338]
• tackle and fishing, [339]
• Youthful angling, [72]

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AMERICAN SPORTSMAN'S LIBRARY

Edited by CASPAR WHITNEY

To be completed in ten volumes, with numerous illustrations

Each of these volumes will be prepared by a writer, or group of writers, thoroughly in sympathy with the work, and fitted for his special subject. The series will be under the editorial supervision of Mr. Caspar Whitney, the editor of Outing, and for many years sporting editor of Harper's Weekly.