536 
Sprig-tail duck, 310. 
Sport, misapplication of term, 271, 
272; when in perfection, 19; spoil- 
ed by batteries, 20; by watering- 
places, 96; at South and West, 22, 
220; at Barnegat Bay, 22; at Ne- 
peague Beach, 180. 
Sporting, defence of, 273. 
Sportsmen, term misapplied, 13, 271; 
protect birds, 14; club in the 
West, 219; shooting there, 220; 
suggestions to, 271; art of shoot- 
ing, 274; shot, 275. 
Squan Beach, 97. 
Stands, 79; fight for, 106. 
Stools, 79-80; India-rubber, 83 ; dead 
birds, 82; wooden, 81. 
Stories of Jersey pirates, ghosts, and 
wreckers, 119; of the lucky man’s 
duck-shooting. 249; of the unlucky 
man’s trout-fishing, 245. 
“© Stratton’s,”’ 187. 
Strepsilas, genus, 148; interpres, 182, 
148. 
Swallows serviceable, 12. 
Summer-duck, 312. 
Swan, 305; White, 306; American, 
306. 
Table of shots with breech-loaders, 
45, 46. 
Tatler, 166 ; semipalmated, 164; tell- 
tale, 165. 
Tell-tale tatler, 165. 
The beach, New Jersey, 101. 
The ‘‘ dead shot,” 48. 
The Englishman’s woodcock-shoot- 
ing, 126. 
The fight for stands, 126. 
“The Field,” 438. 
The French gentleman’s shot, 69. 
The Jersey girls, 98. 
The “ lockfast,” 61. 
Times for killing birds, 17, 18, 19. 
Totanus, 133, 162; semipa!matus, 
164; vociferus, 165 ; flavipes, 166. 
“ Trading,”’ 104. 
Traits of bay-birds, 103. 
Trap-shooting, 288; where pursued, 
288; obtaining pigeons for, 289, 
291; assistants for, 291; skill in, 
291; tame and wild pigeons com- | 
pared, 292; how to keep pigeons 
for, 293; varieties of traps, 294, 
299; retrieving of birds in this 
sport, 295; missfires, 296; guns 
and load for, 296-298 ; number of 
birds which may be killed in suc- 
cession, 297; English rules, 298; 
ties, 293; New York State Conven- 
INDEX. 
tion of 1865, 299; plunge and 
spring traps, 299; decay of trap- 
shooting, 300; rules for, 326. 
Trial of breech-loaders in England, 43. 
Tringe, 133; Bartramia, 110, 152; 
hiaticula, 158; cinerea, 150 ; rufa, 
150; alpina, 156, himantopus, 157 ; 
pectoralis, 160; semipalmata, 162 ; 
pusilla, 162. 
Turkey, 9. 
Turnstone, 132, 148. 
Unlucky man’s trout-fishing, 245, 
Upland game disappearing, 19. 
Upland plover, 152. 
Use of song-birds, 12. 
Varieties of bay-birds, 74; discus- 
sion as to, 109. 
Varieties of names of bay-birds, 91, 
109. 
Virginia rail, 201. 
Wager about duck-shooting, 263. 
Water-fowl, time to kill, 18. 
Watering-place, spoils sport, 96. 
Welsh drake, 308. 
West, the sportmen’s club there, 
219; adventure in, 221. 
Western sport, 22. 
Willet-shooting, 114. 
Willet, 164. 
Winter-snipe. 156. 
Wilson’s plover, 113. 
Wilson’s sandpiper, 162. 
Wild rice of the West, 224. 
Wild celery stolen from canvas-backs 
by widgeons, 235. 
Wild-fowl shooting, 205 ; in batteries, 
205; at the West and South, 206; 
dogs for, 207; localities for, 213; 
how to shoot, 215. 
Whistling for birds, 83. 
Whistler duck, 321. 
White swan, 306. 
Widgeon, 319. 
Wild duck, 306. 
Woodcock, European, 8; a game- 
bird. 10; time to kill, 17; shoot- 
ing by the Englishman, 126. 
Wood-duck, 312. 
Wooden stools, 81. 
Worms, depredations of, 11. 
Wreckers of Jersey coast, 116. 
Yellow-legs, 77, 166; big, 165; little, 
166. 
Yeliow-shanks, greater, 165. 
Yellow-tatler, 166. 
Yelper, 77, 165. 
