. The American angler. Fishing. This territory abounds, as outlined in the foregoing, in ponds and lakelets, and especially is this the case with its lower sections—Plymouth, Middleboro, the upper Cape Cod towns, and their neighborhoods. These ponds, often well stocked with perch, pickerel, black bass, etc., in the Winter, or cold months, afford halting places for innumerable sea fowl—geese, ducks, sheldrakes, and the like, in their season. From Cohas- set on the North throughout the Ply- mouth territory on the South, the coot shooting season lasts from the opening of October to the advent of
. The American angler. Fishing. This territory abounds, as outlined in the foregoing, in ponds and lakelets, and especially is this the case with its lower sections—Plymouth, Middleboro, the upper Cape Cod towns, and their neighborhoods. These ponds, often well stocked with perch, pickerel, black bass, etc., in the Winter, or cold months, afford halting places for innumerable sea fowl—geese, ducks, sheldrakes, and the like, in their season. From Cohas- set on the North throughout the Ply- mouth territory on the South, the coot shooting season lasts from the opening of October to the advent of December ; and probably more of these sea fowl are killed here within that season annually than in all points elsewhere in the coun- try. Fox hunting is still in vogue on Cape Cod, and in a limited way elsewhere in Southeastern Massa- chusetts, many veteran hunters making pilgrimage regularly to the Cape Cod localities in this pursuit. A matter of special interest to the sportsman and naturalist, or to amateurs in these departments, is that of the presence of birds and game animals in various sections of the Cape. The number of birds on Cape Cod is very great, and among them are many rarely found in the North. A summer vis- itor who regularly visits Hyannis Port reports a hundred and eighteen varieties as observed by himself, many of which he has shot and mounted. The prairie warbler is often met within the pine woods, and the Mary- land yellow-throat is occasionally seen in these sections. Among the common birds are the meadow-lark or marsh-quail, the finch, the red-winged black-bird, the grass-finch, the green -heron, the mackerel-gull, the night- heron, the king-fisher, the whip- poor-will, and the shore birds. A great white-heron has been shot near Yar- mouth, and a beast-bittern at Chatham. The recesses of the woods contain many owls. The snowy-owl is more abundant in winter on Cape Cod, Martha's A^ineyard, Nantucket and Monomoy Island, than in any other place of corre
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