INDEX. 
shoveller, 317; sea duck, 318; can- 
vas-hack, 318 ; red-head, 819 ; 
broad-bill, blue- ‘pill, scaup, black- 
head, raft, 320; whistler, golden eye, 
great-head, B21; butter-ball, buffel. 
headed, spirit, 322; old wife, south- 
southerly, old squaw, long-tailed, 
323; Merganser, 324; shell- drake, 
goosander * weaser, 825. 
Dusky duck, 308. 
Eating, which birds are best for, 93. 
England, no bay-snipe nor rail in, 
5S. 
England, trial of breech-loaders in, 
4447 
English guns, German palmed off as, 
30 
English guns preferable, 37. 
English law defines game, T. 
English snipe, 114; seasons for, 133. 
English duck, 306. 
European woodcock, 8. 
Farmer’s interest in protecting birds, 
10. 
Fat-bird, 92-160. 
“ Field,” the, on breech and muzzle- 
loaders, 43. 
Field-plover, 152. 
Fight for shooting stands, 126. 
Fighting, reflections on, 129. 
Filling cartridges, 50. 
Firing gun too close to companion, 
500 
at restaurants, 15; legal times for 
killing, 17; upland game disap- 
pearing, improper pursuit of, 20; 
bay-birds not killed as game south 
of Virginia, 95. 
Game-birds, definition of term, 9, 273. 
Game-laws, "14. 
= (Gap? the, 260. 
Geese, game- -birds, 10; description of 
varieties, 303. 
Genus strepsilas, 148; totanus, 163; 
limosa, 168 ; numenius, 173 ; anser, 
303; cy gnus, 395; anas, 306 ; fuli- 
gula, 318 ; Mergus, B24. 
German guns, 30; duck, 308. 
Ghost stories of Jersey coast, 120. 
Giraud on plover, 112. 
Godwit, 133, 168, 170; great marbled, 
168 
Golden plover, 77 ; specific character, 
143, 179; at Nepeague Beach, 155. 
Golden-eye duck, 821. 
Goose, the, 303; wild, 304; Canada, 
304 ; brant, 304 ; barnacle, BU4 5 
brent, 304. 
Goosander weaser, 325, 
Grass plover, 152. 
Grassy point. 
Greater yellow-shanks, 165. 
Great pond, Long Island, 187, 
Great-head duck, 321. 
Green-head duck, 306. 
Green-winged teal, 814. 
Grey duck, 305, 310. 
Grey plover, 152. 
Grouse, timefor killing, 18. 
70. 
Fish, hlue, seasons for, 1338; bony | Guns, good and inferior, 27; first 
134. 
Fishing at the West, 261. 
Flight of hay-snipe, 72-73, 86; direc- 
tion of, 73. 
Flight of game-birds. led by bay- 
snipe, 18; order of flight, 18. 
Flight of plover, 153. 
Food, which birds are best for, 93. 
Frank Forester on plover, 112. 
French gentleman’s beautiful shot, 69. 
Fresh-water ducks, 306, 
Frost-birds and frost-snipe, 92, 113, 
148, 157. 
Fute, the, 176. 
Fuligula, genus, 318; valisneria, 318 ; 
ferina, 319; marila, 820 ; clan- 
gula, 821; albeola, 822 ; glacialis, 
323. 
Gadwall, 308. 
Game, definition of in English law, 
7; protection of, 10, 14-15; pur- 
chase of at unseasonable times, 16; 
used for feathered game, 7; chang- 
ing, 28; for bay-birds, 87, 90; 
cheap, dangerous, 28; light, neces- 
sary, 29; difficulty of distinguishing 
between good and bad, 8); Ger- 
man, palmed off as English, 30 ; 
importers of. practise deceptions, 
30; how to distinguish good from 
bad, 31; how to select, 31; how to 
carry, 87, 236 ; protect and clean, 
87, 88, 89; Manton’s theory, 32; 
breech, shape of, 32; breech- load: 
ers, 32-37 ; advantages of, 42; ob- 
jections to, 43-48 ; superiority of,” 
33; history of, 33; Lefaucheux, 
33; Jeffries, 36; English preferred, 
387; Dougall’s invention—the lock- 
fast—61; the dead-shot, 48, 58-59; 
makers of in America, 63; fired too 
close to shooting companion, 70; 
recoil of gun, 250; load for, 281 ; 
shot for, 282; rules for safety, 284. 
Habits of plover, 153-160. 
