29 
€ 
22 INDEX. 
Blue-bill duck, 320. 
Blue-winged teal, 316. 
Blind for shooting, 106. 
Blind-snipe, 107. 
Blue-bills, 238. 
Blue-fish, season for, 133. 
Bony fish, 134. 
Black-breast, 141, 156. 
Brant-bird, 148. 
Breech-loaders, 32, 87; advantages 
of, 42, 287 ; objections to, 43-48-49 ; 
superiority of, 33; history of, 33 ; 
Lefaucheux, 33; mode of using, 34, 
35; safety of, 39; cartridge for, 
34, 39, 50, 62 ; needle-gun, 36; Jef- 
fries gun, 36; English gun, 37; 
impervious to wet, 41; apparatus 
necessary for, 387; recoil of, 41; 
refilling cartridges, 54, 57; trial-be- 
tween breech and muzzle-loaders 
in 1863, 44; pigeon match with, 
44; discussion as to in ‘‘ The Field,” 
43; the dead shot. 48-59: heating 
of gun, 58; useful for killing snipe, 
duck, and rail, 60; compared with 
muzzle-loaders, 60; Dougall’s in- 
vention, the lockfast, 61; price of, 
62; must be imported, 64. 
Broad-bill, 238, 320. 
Brown-hack, 171. 
Bull-headed plover, 112-141. 
Buffel-headed duck, 322. 
Butter-ball duck, 322. 
Calls for birds, 79-83-84 
Canvas-back ducks classified as 
sea-ducks, 237; comparison be- 
tween them and mallards, 237, 318. 
Carrying gun, 87. 
Cartridges for breech-loaders, 34-89 ; 
safety of, 39; impervious to wet, 
41; objections to answered, 50; 
filling, 50; refilling, 54-57; extrac- 
tor, 54; missfires with, 56; best kind, 
62. (See breech-loaders.) 
Cedar-birds destroy worms, 11. 
Change of guns, 28. 
Change of seasons for birds, 113. 
Charadrius, helveticus, 112. 141 ; plu- 
vialis, 112, 143, 179; semipalmatus, 
118 ; vociferus, 118, 146; hiaticula, 
145 ; rubidus, 147. 
Charge used for shooting bay-birds, 
87. 
“ Charley’s,” 101. 
Cheap guns, 28. 
Chesapeake Bay. ducks on, 20. 
Cleaning gun, 89. 
Close times for killing game-birds, 17. 
Clubs, sportsmen’s, 14; Western, 219. 
Coast of New Jersey, 106. 
Comparison between breech and 
muzzle-loaders, 60. 
Confusion in names of birds, 91. 
Cook’s ‘* Tommy,” 98. 
Crabtown, 100. 
Crack shots, 274. 
Cross-shots, 278. 
Cries of birds, 84. 
sae 76, 183, 173; Esquimaux 
176. 
Cygnus, genus, 305; Americanus, 306. 
Dead birds, steols made of, 82. 
“ Dead-shot,’’ the, 48, 58-59. 
Deceptions by gun-makers, 30. 
Decoys, 79. 
Defence of sporting, 273. 
Definition of game in English law, 7. 
Delaware rail-shooting, 197. 
Depredations of worms checked by 
birds, 10-11. 
Derivation of name of “ plover,” 111. 
Description of plover, 111. 
Dipper-duck, 322. 
Doe-bird, 176. 
Dogs, for wild-fowl shooting, 207; 
for all shooting, 208 ; varieties of, 
209; training of, 210; colors of, 
211; Newfoundland, 209, 212; re- 
triever, 209; at the South, 209. 
Dougall’s invention—the “ lockfast,” 
61 
Dowitch, 171. 
Dowitcher, the, 78, 132, 171. 
Dress for shooting, 90. 
Ducks, game, 10; time for killing, 
17-18; where plentiful, 20; Clas- 
sification of, 237; flavor of, 236; 
shooting, 219; with breech-loader, 
60; sport of, 213-227; localities 
for, 218; weather for, 214; on 
inland lakes, 219 ; sportsmen’s club 
out West, 219; adventures in 
West, 221, 226; Mud Creek bridge, 
229; record of shooting in the 
West, 233; talk about sport, 233; 
canvas-backs and the wild celery, 
235; shot to be used for, 288; 
Henry, 282; how to shoot the 
ducks, 255; Irish gentleman’s shot, 
256; among the weeds, 258; punt- 
ing, 259; freshwater, 306; mallard, 
806; greenhead, English, grey, 
wild, 306-310; gadwall, Welsh 
drake, German, 808; widgeon, 
bald-pate, 809; pintail, sprig-tail, 
pigeon-tail, 310; wood, 312; sum- 
mer, 312; green-winged teal, 314; 
blue-winged teal, 316; spoonbill, 
