. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 91 toward Mendocino County. This story is corroborated by Jack Briones, a keeper of the Point Reyes Club, who recently told Mr. McAllister that his father had told him the same story. Point Reyes seems to have been a favorite resort for elk. Captain IMacKenzic, who was for niany years captain of the steamer San Rafael, running- to San Quentin Point, and later to Sausalito, informed Mr. IMcAllister that in the
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 91 toward Mendocino County. This story is corroborated by Jack Briones, a keeper of the Point Reyes Club, who recently told Mr. McAllister that his father had told him the same story. Point Reyes seems to have been a favorite resort for elk. Captain IMacKenzic, who was for niany years captain of the steamer San Rafael, running- to San Quentin Point, and later to Sausalito, informed Mr. IMcAllister that in the early days, probably in 1850, he made a trip in a small sloop to the mouth of Petaluma Creek, and while exploring" the marshes in that vicinity he came upon a great herd of Fig. 2 3.—It was necessary to saw off the antlers of the big bucks to keep them from injuring eacli otlier in tlie pens and cars. Photo by John Rowley. They were in great numbers. Several were killed before the herd made off, rushing headlong over everything like a herd of stampeded horses or cattle. ]\Ir. ]\IcAlli-ter has obtained some valuable data from Jim Paine, the old Suisun Marsh hunter, who, with his partner, Seth Beckwith, in the seventies and eighties, furnished the San Francisco market with the tinest and most toothsome canvasbacks. Paine claims that he killed the last tule elk ever seen on the Suisun marsh. It was, he thinks, in the fall of 1868. He was sculling up the Cordelia Slough after a day's shooting, when, near what is now Teal station, he saw a large cow elk plunge into the slough just ahead. Sculling alongside, he killed the animal with a heavy load of duck shot. JMr. Chas. A. Allen, the veternn naturalist and collector of Nicasio and San Ceronimo, ^larin County, has given us the benefit of his experience. lie has collected in jNFariu County for forty-two years. In his earlier years he found elk antlers very plentiful about Point Reyes from Bolinas north to the mouth of T
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