CONTENTS. Xlll 



Chap. LXIV., Page 335.— LAWS AFFECTING WILD-FOWL, WOODCOCKS, 



AND SNIPES ; aucient protection ; formerl}^ game— Proclamation of King 

 John — Early statutes affecting wild-fowl — Definition of " gentlemen's game" — 

 Ancient Scotch laws — Oppressive statutes — Destructive mode of capturiug wild- 

 fowl prohibited — Laws now in force — Wild-fowl ; snij^es and woodcocks ; not 

 game — KiUing wild-fowl on Sunday — Tenants' rights — Trespassers ; penalties 

 and exceptions — Eggs of wild-fowl protected. 



Chap. LXV., Page 341.— WILD-FOWLING IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.— 

 Interesting researches — Ai-ctic Regions — Russia — Hudson's Bay — New Guinea 

 — Senegal — India — Bengal — Iceland — Scandinavia — Gothenbiu-g. 



Chap. LXVI., Page 345.— ROCK FOWLING IN NORWAY.- Birdmen— Peril- 

 ous adventures — Precipitous cliffs — Accidents — Bird-ropes and rock-lines — 

 Fowling nets — Daring skill of Norwegian fowlers — Bird-catchuig at night — 

 Sielings — Curious ancient law. 



Chap. LXVIL, Page 351.— ROCK-FOWLING IN THE ORKNEY ISLANDS. 

 — Hazardous system of fowling — Orkney birdmen — Island of Foula ; system 

 of fowling there — Hog's bristles i^o'shs horse-hair — Faroe Islands; fowling at 

 — Stupendous cliffs — Threatening horrors — Lundes — The stang of stafie. 



Chap. LXVIIL, Page 354.— FOWLING IN THE SHETLAND ISLES.— 

 The Holm of Noss — Rope tramway and cradle — An adventurous fowler ; his 

 death — Ingenious contrivance — Crossing the chasm. — The return trip. 



Chap. LXIX., Page 357.— ROCK-FOWLING AT ST. KILDA.— Immense num- 

 bers of sea-fowl — Fowlers — Feats of daring — Merrymakings — Fowling parties 

 — An hen-loom — Singular stratagems of the fowlers — Solan geese — Singular 

 method of capturing — Intrepidity of the fowlers — Snamig rock-fowl — Fowling 

 in Hirta — Maids of Hirta ; then* dogs — Remarkable method of capturing 

 puffins ; sagacity of the dogs. 



Chap. LXX., Page 363 -WILD-FOWLING IN FRANCE.— Fens— Marais boats 

 — Decoys — French decoy-dog — Curious method of shooting wUd-fowl by aid of 

 a reverherc— La Chasse de la Hutte — A profitable sport — A grand battue — 

 French game laws affecting the sport of wild-fowling — Pcnnis de chasse. 



Chap. LXXI., Page 370.— WILD-FOWLING IN AMERICA.— Abundance of 

 bu'ds — Lake Champlain — Curious method of toling wild-fowl — Singular dis- 

 covery of the art — The toling-dog — Interesting proceedings connected with the 

 art — Great nimibers kiUed — Toling by moonhght— American scow or shooting 

 yacht — Remarkable equipment — Wild-fowling battery — Dummy ducks — The 

 cabin of the scow — Lanncliing the batteiy ; towing and anchoring it — Yankee 

 punting ; attempts to put it down — Slaking — GiUing-nets for capturing wild- 

 fowl. 



Chap. LXXIL, Page 380.— PERSIAN IMETHOD OF CAPTURING WILD. 

 FOWL. — Shores of the Caspian — Cm-ious artifices of the Persian fowlers — 

 Various methods of netting wild-fowl — Persian fowling canoe, with dong, lamp, 

 and apparatus for taking wild-fowl. 



Chap. LXIII., Page 384.— METHODS OP CAPTURING WILD-GEESE IN 

 RUSSIA. — Singular stratagems of Siberian fowlers — Decoy hovels — Hei-me- 

 tically sealed larders — Fowlers of Kamtschatka ; their artifices — Geese pits — 

 Siberian glade-nets, and modes of using them — Fowling on the river Ochotska — 

 Curious mode of suaiung rock fowl — Greenland fowlers : their mode of spearing 

 wild-fowl— Russian fowling-nets — Contrivances for capturing wild-geese. 



Chap. LXXIV., Page 390.— METHOD OF CAPTURING WILD-GEESE IN 

 INDIA. — The calabashes — Amphibious fowlers — Mode of fowling in Ceylon — 

 Chinese fowlers — Captiu-iug wild-geese on the Lake Cieuega de Tescas — 

 Arabian method of fowling. 



