Index 



589 



Line shooting — 



Description of method, 62-63. 

 White- winged scoter, 180. 

 Little ring plover \_cBgialiiis dubia'\ 



470. 

 Live decoys — 



Duck-shooting, 17. 

 Goose-shooting, 205. 

 Lockhart, Mr., nests of buffle- 



head, 151. 

 Long-billed curlew [^nionenius Ion- 



girostris'] 435. 

 Long Island — 



Battery-shooting, 33-37. 

 Brant season, 245, 246. 

 Shinnecock Bay, see (hat title. 

 Stilt sandpiper resort, 356. 

 White-winged scoter resort, 179- 

 181. 

 Long Point, duck-shooting, 46. 

 Long-toed stint \_tritiga damacensis~\ 



380. 

 Lophodytes cuciillatus, see Hooded 



merganser. 

 Louisiana clapper rail, 278. 



Macrorhamphus griseus, red- 

 breasted snipe, 348. 



Macrorhamphus scolopaceus, red- 

 bellied snipe, 352. 



Magdalen Islands, Eskimo curlew, 



445- 

 Mallard \_anas boschas'] 73. 



Characteristics and habits, 76-79. 

 Geographical range, 76. 

 Hybrids, 75, 201-202. 

 Pacific coast, 515. 

 Shooting, 78. 

 Marbled godwit [^limosa fedoa'] 395. 

 Mareca americana, baldpate, 91. 

 Mareca penelope, European widgeon, 



89. 

 Market gunning and the destruction 



of game, 68. 

 Marshes, shore-bird shooting, 312. 



Masked duck [nomonyx dominicus'] 



188. 

 Massachusetts, Canada goose hunt- 

 ing, 236. 

 Mauritius, manner of catching rail, 



1675. 273. 

 Meadov*f-hens, name for clapper rail, 



279. 

 Merganser americanus, American 



merganser, 191. 

 Merganser serrator, red-breasted 



merganser, 194. 

 Mergansers \_tnergina:'\ — 

 American, 191. 

 Characteristics, 190. 

 Diagnosis of family, 565. 

 Hooded merganser, see that 



title. 

 Red-breasted, 194. 

 Smew, 199. 

 Mergince, see Mergansers. 

 Mergus albellus, smew, 199. 

 Metric's, Amherst shore-bird sport, 



309. 

 Mexican jacana \_jacana spinosa~\ 



497- 



Mexico — 



Black-bellied tree-duck, 1901, 



254. 

 Cinnamon teal, 103. 

 Duck-shooting experiences, 57. 

 Goose-shooting experiences, 212. 

 Greater yellowleg haunt, 409. 

 Sora rail, 286. 

 Warfare on water-fowl, 4. 

 Micropalama hirnantopus, stilt sand- 



piper, 355- 

 Migration of water-fowl, 3. 

 Mississippi, wood-duck shooting, 514. 

 Mongolian plover [agialitis mon- 



gola^ 475- 

 Monomoy Island, shore-bird shoot- 

 ing* 7PZ- 

 Moore, N. B., description of Florida 

 duck, 85-86. 



