INDEX. 



XXXV 



Quail — continued. 



a migratory bird, 80. 



trail at night, 81. 



employed in combat, 81. 



not esteemed as food, 81 



assemble in innumerable bodies, 89. 



killed in immense numbers, 89. 



people surfeited with, 89. 

 Quail Snipe, 256. 



R 



Rabbit, Gray, (see Hare.) 



Bail or Sera, llallus Carolinus, 217. 



description, nomenclature, 217. 

 history, &c., 218. 

 singular characteristics, 221. 

 Rail, their food and resorts, 222, 

 shooting, 22-4, 



paraphernalia for shooting, 227. 

 pushers for shooting, 227. 

 tides, 228. 

 numbers killed, 230. 

 shooting in Virginia, 231. 

 fire-shooting, 231. 

 netting, 232. 

 fish prey upon, 232. 

 ■where to shoot, 232. 

 expense of shooting, 233. 

 terms applicable to, 42. 

 cooking, 474. 



vent-feathers large in the, 35. 

 Rallus Crepitans — 



Clapper Rail or Mud Hen, 237. 

 nomenclature and locality, 237. 

 period of incubation, 238. 

 where killed, 239. 

 Rallus Elegans — Great Red-breasted Rail, 

 235. 

 King Rail, Fresh-water Marsh 



Hen, 235. 

 description, 235. 

 history, habits, and haunts, 236. 

 Raspail, Monsieur — 



theory of serpent-charming, 74. 

 Rattlesnake, curious experiments with, 



73. 

 Reed-Bird— Rice-Bunting, 210. 

 Emberiza Oryzivora, 210. 

 history and nomenclature, 210. 

 description, 211. 

 migrations— their feeding-grounds, 



211. 

 shooting, 212. 

 netting, 213. 

 compared with Ortolan of Europe, 



213. 

 anecdote, 213. 

 progress south, 214. 

 curious facts, 215. 

 as a cage-bird, 215. 



Reed-Bird — continued. 



change of plumage, 216. 

 terms applicable to, 42. 

 cooking, 474. 

 Red-headed Duck. 308. 

 Red-head, 308. 

 Anas ferina, 308. 

 habits and haxmts, 308. 

 Red-headed Widgeon of England, 

 308. 

 Register, extract from a friend's shoot- 

 ing, 112. 

 Retriever — how trained, 119. 



diflSculty of training a, 119. 

 good ones very scarce, 119. 

 author's views of, 119. 

 Rice-Bunting, (see Reed-Bird,) 210. 

 Richards, Westley, gun-maker, 439. 



bill of a gun purchased of, 440. 

 Rifle, shooting with a, 50. 



exploits of the Toomers with, 50. 

 killing Pigeons with, 50. 

 striking cricket-balls with, 50. 

 exploits of our backwoodsmen with, 



60. 

 German jiigers use, 51. 

 killing Squirrels with, 51. 



Wild Turkeys with, 51. 

 exploits of keel-boatmen with, 51. 

 driving the nail with, 51. 

 snuffing the candle with, 51. 

 shooting apples from the head with, 

 51. 

 Ring-Plover, 251. 

 Rock Island — 



numbers of Partridges on, 110. 

 Rocky Mountains — 



Canvas-back on the streams of 

 the, 270. 

 Romans, festive boards of the, 464. 

 Ruffed Grouse, (see Grouse.) 

 Rumford, Count- — comments on cooking, 



458. 

 Rump, Bill, celebrated Rail-pusher, 227. 

 Russia, Snipe in, 195. 

 Rusting, to prevent, of barrels, 399. 

 how to remove, 399. 



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Sargeant, Dr. R. Percy — 



observation on habits of Wild 



Turkey, 130. 

 further observation, 140. 

 Sauces or gravies, 479. 

 Savages — their gluttony, 463. 

 Scapulars, shoulder-feathers, 34. 

 Schwarz, Berthold, discoverer of gun- 

 powder, 406. 

 invention of gunpowder attri- 

 buted to, 431. 



