384 
Hackensack rail-shooting, 201. 
Hawking in olden time, 7 
“* Henry,” 252; his advice, 252; he 
shoots with the author, 264. 
Horsefoot snipe, 92, 132, 148. | 
How to clean, carry, and protect the 
gun, 87, 88, 89 
How to string birds, 94. 
How to approach plover, 
Hudsonian curlew, 173. 
Hunting in olden time, 7. 
Hunting, comparison between ancient 
and modern, 8. 
155. 
Imported guns best, 63. 
Improper pursuit of game, 20. 
Incubation of bay-birds, 73. 
India-rubber stools, 838. 
Inferior guns, 27. 
Inlet, closing of, 134. 
Interest of farmer to protect game- 
birds, 10. 
Trishman’s duck-shooting, 259. 
Jack-curlew, 76, 1738. 
Jacks, 133. 
Jack- -snipe, 160. 
Jakey’s tavern, 102. 
Jeifries’ breech-loaders, 36. 
Jersey, a girl from, 98. 
Jersey coast shooting, 106. 
Jersey courts and damages, 130. 
Jersey, bathing in, 103. 
Jersey coast, a day’s shooting on, 
106 
Judgment required in bay-bird shoot- 
ing, 70. 
Kentuckian’s bass-fishing, 261; his 
wager, 263. 
Kildeer plover, 113-146. 
Killing song-birds, 13. 
‘ game-birds out of season, 15. 
‘¢  pirds, game-laws, 14. 
legal times for. 17, 18, 19. 
“« by batteries, 21, 22, 25; by 
pivot-guns, 23, 25; by sail-boats, 
24 
ae 
Killing snipe, ducks, and rail, gun 
for, 60. 
Krieker, 78, 131, 160. 
Lakes at the West increasing, 268. 
Lattimer Marsh, 266. 
Laws, game, 14, 15. 
Lefaucheux gun, 33-64. 
Legal times for killing, 17-18, 
“ Lester’s,”’? 180. 
Light gun necessary, 29. 
INDEX. 
Tine ons, 133 ; fedoa, 168; Hudsonica, 
168 
Little yellow-legs, 166. 
Long Island, South Bay, 20. 
Long-legged sandpiper, 157. 
Lockfast, the, 61. 
Loading, accidents from, 42. 
Long-billed curlew, 174. 
Long-tailed duck, 323. 
Localities for bay-snine, 94-97. 
Lucky man’s duck-shooting, 240. 
Mallard, 306. 
Manton’s theory, 82. 
Marbled godwit, 168. 
Marlin, 76, 168, 170 ; ring-tailed, 170. 
Match, shooting, in England, 44. 
Meadow-snipe, 92, 16). 
Merganser, 324. 
Mergus, 324. 
Migration of birds, order of, 18; 
of bay-birds, 94. 
Missfires with breech-loader cartridge, 
56. 
Montauk, sport at, 188 ; Point, 178. 
Mud-creek bridge, 229. 
Muskrat traps, 266. 
Musquitoes, 90, 101, 125, 135. 
Muzzle-loaders and breech- loaders, 27. 
Muzzle-loaders, accidents from, 49, 
: and preech-loaders, 
trial between, 45; discussion about ; 
in field, 43; pigeon match be- 
tween, 44; compared, 60. 
Names of bay-birds, confusion as to, 
91; varieties of names, 91; scienti- 
fic names, 92; species, 109; of 
plovers, * Bills,” remarks, 113. 
Needle-gun, 36. 
Nepeague Beach, 180. 
New York snipe, 132. 
New Jersey, sport in, 106; a girl 
from, 98; adventure in, 93 ; bathing 
in, 103 ; wreckers in, ‘116: pirates 
of, 117: ghost stories about, 120; 
courts and damages, 130; fight for 
stands, 126. 
Numenius, 133 ; Hudsonicus, 178. 
Longirostris, 174. 
Borealis, 176. 
Number of birds bagged at one shot, 
«ce 
Olden-time hunting, 7. 
Old-squaw duck, 323. 
Old-wife duck, 323. 
Ortley family in Jersey and the fight, 
126. 
Ox-eye, 162, 
