INDEX. 
Accidents from muzzle-loaders, 42. 
Accidents in rail-shooting, 197. 
A day’s shooting in New Jersey, 106. 
Adventure in New Jersey, 99. 
“ A Girl from New Jersey,” 98. 
American golden plover, 143-179. 
American gun-makers, 63. 
American ring-plover, 158 ; swan, 306. 
Anas, bernicla, 304; canadensis, 354 ; 
genus, 306; boschas, 306; obscura, 
308; strepera, 308; Americana, 
309; acuta, 310; sponsa, 312; 
erecca, 314; discors, 316; clype- 
ata, 31T. 
Ancient and modern hunting, 8. 
Apparatus necessary for breech- 
loader, 37. 
Appendix, 303. 
Barnegat Bay, 22. 
Barnegat pirates, 117-118. 
Bartram’s sandpiper, 152. 
Bass-fishing out West, 261. 
Bathing-party on Jersey coast, 103. 
Batteries, 20; description of, 21, 205 ; 
condemned, 21, 22, 25. 
Bay-birds, 19; definition of, 66; im- 
proper modes of pursuing, 20; bat- 
teries, 20, 21, 22, 25. 
(See Bay-Snipe.) 
Bay-snipe, shooting, 66, 103, 104; none 
in England, 58; what are, 66; traits 
of, 103; sociability of, 103; pecu- 
liarities of, 136; “trading,” 104; 
skill required for shooting, 67 ; sport 
of shooting, 68-106 ; shooting on the 
Jersey coast, 196; the French gen- 
tleman’s beautiful shot, 69 ; rivalry 
in shooting, 70; number bagged at 
one shot, 70; flight of ; uncertainty 
as to, 71, 85, 86-87 ; season for sport, 
71-72; flying, mode of, 72; flight, | 
line of, 73-86; lead migration of 
game birds, 18; flight, direction of, 
73-74; period of incubation, 73; 
varieties of, 74; sickle-bills, 75; 
jack-curlew, 76; plover, 109; mar- 
lin, 76; willet, 77; golden plover, 
(7-112: black-breast, 77; yelper, 
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78-182 ; robia-snipe, 78; dowitcher, 
yellow-legs, 77; brant -bird, | 
78-132; krieker, 78-131 ; pursuit of ; 
best mode, 78; stools, 79-80 ; $2-83 ; 
calls, 79-83-84 ; stands, T9 ; wooden 
stools best, 81; whistling, 84; cries 
of the birds, $4; shooting, uncer- 
tainty of, 85; gun to be used for, 
87-90; charge and powder for, 8T- 
91 ; how to carry the gun, 87 ; shoot- 
ing, dress for, 90; names of ; confu- 
sion as to, 91; names of, varieties 
of, 91; names of, scientific, 92-109 ; 
varieties of; Bartram’s sandpiper, 
110; frost-bird and frost-snipe, 92- 
113 ; meadow-snipe, 92 ; beach-bird, 
92; fat-bird, 92; short-neck, 92; 
pectoral sandpiper, 92; horsefoot 
snipe, 92-132; varieties of, discus- 
sion about, 109; which are good 
eating, 93; stringing, how to be 
done, 94; migration of, 94; locali- 
ties for, 94-95, 97; not killed south 
of Virginia, 95; 2% Quogue, 96; 
sport spoiled by establishment of 
watering-place, 96; at Squan 
Beach, 97; at Barnegat, Egg Har- 
bor. Brigantine Beach, 97 ; shooting 
in New Jersey,106. 
Beach-bird, 113, 145. 
Beach on Jersey coast, 101. 
Beach-robins, 148. 
Beetle-headed plover, 141. 
Big yellow-legs, 165. 
“ Bill,” and the names of the plovers, 
118. 
Bill’s ghost stories, 120. 
Bill’s house, 116. 
Birds, wounded, what becomes of 
them, 237. 
Birds, definition of term, 9. 
“ — game, which are. 10 ; in restau- 
rants out of season, 15; protection 
of, 10, 13, 14 ; services rendered by, 
11, 12; out of season, 16; legal 
time for killing, 17; singing birds, 
murder of, 13; season for killing 
different kinds, 17, 18, 19; migra- 
tion of game-birds, 18. 
Black-bellied plover, 112-141. 
Bald-pate duck, 309. 
| Black duck, 308. 
' Black-head duck, 320. 
