Index 



583 



Bonaparte's sandpiper, name for 

 white-rumped sandpiper, 



374- 

 Booby, name for ruddy duck, 187. 

 Bosworth farm, goose-shooting in 



the stubbles, 209. 

 Brant — 



Black brant, 248, 544. 



Breeding and migration, 38, 245- 



248. 

 Common brant, 243. 

 Shooting — 



Chatham Bay, 38. 

 Virginia, 41. 

 Brant goose \_hrania bernicla glau- 



cogasii'a'\ 244. 

 Brant Pond, duck-shooting, 21-24. 

 Branta bernicla, common brant, 



243- 

 Branta bernicla glaucogastra, brant, 



244. 

 Branta canadensis, see Canada 



goose. 

 Branta canadensis htitcJiifisii, 



Hutchins' goose, 239. 

 Branta canadensis occidentalism 



white-cheeked goose, 241. 

 Branta leucopsis, barnacle goose, 



250. 

 Branta nigricans, black brant, 248, 



544. 

 Breeding, interbreeding among wild 



fowl, 201-203. 

 Briggs, J, J., instance of harlequin 



breeding, 159. 

 Bristle-thighed curlew \^numenius 



tahiiiensis'\ 449. 

 Broadbill, scaup duck, and lesser 



scaup duck, 134, 137. 

 Buff-breasted sandpiper \tryngites 



subrujicollis'] 430. 

 Buffle-head {^charitonetta albeola~\ 



150, 530. 

 Bunn, shore-bird shooting, Shinne- 



cock Bay, 306. 



Bush blinds, duck-shooting from, 

 27. 

 Red-head shooting, 126. 

 Butterball, resort of, 152. 



Cackling goose \_bernicla canadensis 



minima'\ 242. 

 Cairina vioschata, see Muscovy duck. 

 Caladris arenaria, Sanderling, 392. 

 California — 



Duck-shooting, 503. 

 Water-fowl of Pacific coast, see 

 Pacific coast. 

 California clapper rail \ralltis obsole- 



tus'\ 276. 

 California, Gulf of, home of quanti- 

 ties of game, 559. 

 Camptolaimus labradorius, see Lab- 

 rador duck. 

 Canada goose \branta canadensis^ — 

 Breeding, 233. 

 Characteristics and habits, 232- 



239- 



Decoys, 205. 

 Domestication, 5, 238. 

 Hybrids, 5, 239. 

 Massachusetts club sport, 236. 

 Nest in Okanogan district, B.C., 



233- 



Night hunting, 238. 



North Carolina coast, 236. 



Pacific coast, 533. 



Resorts of birds and dates of 

 visitation, 235. 

 Canvas-back [^aythya vallisneria'\ — 



Characteristics, 128-133. 



Chesapeake Bay, destruction of 

 game, 129. 



Pacific coast, 523. 



Shooting methods, 52, 131. 

 Canvas decoys for duck-shooting, 18. 

 Cape Cod — 



Brant season, 247. 



Shore-bird shooting at Monomoy, 

 303- 



