Forest and Stream, November 25, 1875

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Natural resources -- Conservation - GameTourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - Hunting : BirdTourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - Hunting : Rabbit and squirrel

MARYLAND. -- Snow Hill, Nov. 18th. -- All kinds of game are scarcer this Fall than ever before, and the universal demand is for a more stringent game law. Rabbits are plenty on Elk Neck. Squirrels and partridges very numerous in Dorchester county.

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - Hunting : BirdTourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - Hunting : Waterfowl and shorebird

VIRGINIA. -- Norfolk, Nov. 17th. -- We have had a very warm and pleasant Fall. Quail shooting has been poor, as the birds are scarcer than usual this season. We have a few snipe; they generally give us the go by in the Fall. Ducks arriving pretty freely from Currituck and the sounds. Some wild turkeys coming from James River.

Game of every description in this section is scarce this year. The partridges, of which we had a prospect about their hatching time of abundance, being drowned out in the heavy rains last Summer. Ducks seem to have been driven to other quarters by the incessant warfare on them, and comparatively few have been killed by our sportsmen. A number of gunners from New York were in the city last week, and before starting for the ducking grounds tried for partridges with poor success.

J. C. A.

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - Hunting : Waterfowl and shorebirdTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Resorts

Chincoteague, Va., Nov. 18th. -- This island which belongs to Accomac county, is separated from the mainland by the bay of the same name, four to six miles in width and from twenty-five to thirty miles long. Although fishing and oystering are the principal occupations of the inhabitants, the island and contiguous waters furnish an abundance of game of almost every variety. Just now ducks are arriving in vast numbers, and during the Summer all descriptions of bay birds frequent the shores. There are two hotels on the Island, and it is rumored that next season will see a first class watering place established under the auspices of the Old Dominion Steamship Company and some citizens of Maryland. Chincoteague can be reached by steamer to Lewes, Del., thence by railroad.