INDEX. 
Pectoral sandpiper, 92-160. 
Peculiarities of bay-birds, 136. 
Pigeon-match in England, 44. 
Pigeon-shooting practice, 2-4. 
Pigeon-tail duck, 310. 
Pintail duck, 310. 
Potomac, ducks on, 20. 
Pivot-guns, condemned, 23-25. 
Plover, shooting, directions for, 188; 
a game bird, 10; kinds of, 109; 
350 
Restaurants having game out of sea- 
son, 15. 
| Ring-plover or ring-neck, 113-158. 
| Ring-tailed marlin, 170. 
| Rivalry in bay-snipe shooting, 70. 
| Bop beries by ducks from each other, 
35, 
| Robins, service of, 12. 
Robin-snipe, 78-150. 
Rules for trap-shooting, 326. 
discussion about, 110, 111; Frank | 
Forester and Giraud on, 112; cha- 
radrius helveticus, 112, 141; plu- 
vialis, 112, 148; black-bellied, 112, 
141; bull-head, 112, 141; ring-neck 
or ring, 113; semipalmatus, 113; | 
or beach- | 
113; ; 
Wilson’s, 113; piping 
bird, 113, 145; melodius, 
kildeer, 113, 146; vociferus, 115, 
146 ; ‘* Bill’s” remarks avout names 
of, 113; specific character of each 
species, 141; black-breast, 141, 
156; beetle-headed, 141; American 
golden, 143, 179; frost bird, 143; 
hiaticula, 145; sanderling, 147; 
rubidus, 147; turnstone, 148; ge- 
nus strepsilas, 148; brant-bird, 
148 ; strepsilas interpres, 148; horse- 
foot snipe, 148; beach-robins, 148; | 
sandpiper, 150; robin-snipe, 150; 
red-breasted sandpiper, 150; trin- 
ga cinerea, 150; tringa rufa, 150; | 
upland plover, 152; grey, grass, 
or field, 152, 179. 
Plover, American ring, 158. 
(See bay-birds and bay-snipe.) 
Poachers, 15. 
Pond-lily channel, 269. 
Punting for rail, 192. 
Quail, a game-bird, 10; not migra- 
tory, 10; time for killing, 17-18. 
Quail snipe, 171. 
Raccoon Beach, 23. 
Rail, a game-bird, 10; none in Bng- 
land, 58; shooting, 190; flight of, 
191; description of sport, 191, 202 ; 
in boat, 192; Delaware sport, 194, 
197; breech-loader best for, 192; 
charge for, 195; best piaces for 
rail-shooting, 199; rail in Mlinois, 
199; varieties of, 201; short-billed 
and long-billed, 201; Hackensack 
shooting, 201; eating of, 203. 
Raft-duck, 320. 
Red-head duck, 319. 
Red-backed sandpiper, 156. 
Red-breasted sandpiper, 150-171. 
| Sail-boat used to pursue ducks, 24, 
Sand-fleas, 135. 
' Sanderling, 147. 
Sandpiper, 133, 150; Bartram’s, 110, 
152; pectoral, 92, 160; red-breast- 
ed, 150; red-backed, 156; long- 
legged, 157; Wilson’s, 162. 
Scaup, 238, 320. 
Scientific names for birds, 92. 
Scolopacide, 132, 170; noveboracen- 
sis, 132, 171; flavipes, 166; fedoa, 
168. 
Seasons for bay-birds, 71. 
Sea-duck, 318. 
Semipalmated tatler, 164. 
Shell-drake, 325. 
Shooting, dress for, 90; match in 
England, 44; on Jersey coast, 106 ; 
rail, 190; from boats, 192; duck, 
| 216; at the West, 220; art of, 
274; trap, rules for, 326. 
| Short-billed curlew, 178. 
| Short-neck, 92. 
| Shot, the dead, 45, 58; by the French 
| gentleman, 69; for ducks, 238; 
| what is a good one, 277; cross, 
278; aim, 279; recoil, 280; crack, 
| 274; load, 281; quickness, 283; 
practice, 283. 
: Shoveller duck, 317. 
Sickle-bills, 75, 133. 
| Sickle-billed curlew, 174. 
| Sir Francis Francis, 277. 
Sneak-box, 114. 
Snipe, a game-bird, 10; time for 
killing, 17; when it stools, 133; 
migration of, 18; time for bay- 
snipe, 19; batteries, 20; no bay- 
snipe in England, 58; killed by 
breech-loaders, 60; English snipe, 
114, 133; shooting bay-shipe, 66, 
103; what are so-called, 66; win- 
ter-snipe, 156; peep, 156; blind, 
157; frost, 157; meadow, 160; 
jack, 160; quail, 171; snipe, 170. 
(See bay-snipe.) 
South-southerly duck, 328. 
Spoonbill duck, 317. 
Spirit duck, 322. 
