INDEX. 



397 



Nets of ancient fowlers, 13 



of Persian fowler, 380 



of Siberian, 384 



of Russian, 384 



(glade) for capturing woodcocks, 



330 

 New Guinea, 342 

 Night punting, 164, 170 

 Norfolk broads, 39, 293 

 Norway rock-fowling, 345 

 Norwich swan fatting, 206 

 Noss, Holme of, 354. 



Oakley Hall decoy, 42 



Ochotska (river), mode of fowling on, 388 



Ooze, fall on, 150 



Orkney Isles rock-fowling, 351 



Oxbird shooting, 316. 



Panthera net for fowling, 8 

 Permis de Chasse, 368 

 Persian fowling, 380 

 Pink-footed goose, 190 

 PintaH duck, 248 

 Piper, decoy, 56 

 Plover shooting, 297 



catching, 302 



golden, 298 



grey, 298 



Pochard, 79 



mode of capturing, 89 



American, 375 



Poole canoe, 230 



Powder and shot for punt guns, 128 

 Puffins, mode of capturing, 361 

 Punts, gunnmg, 116, 121 

 Punting by dayUght, 140 



by night, 164, 173 



parson, 172 



shoemaker, 175 



Punt sailing, 158 

 Punt guns, 122 



elevation of, 123 i 



management of, ] 28 



loading, 130 



fii-ing, 133 



tipping, 133 



double-barrelled, 13 i 



Purdies Hall decoy, 42. 



Ramsey Meer, 291 ■ . _ / V K ' ^ ■ 



Recoil springs, 125 



Red-breasted Merganser, 264 



Red-tliroated diver, 268 



Retriever dog, 105 



Retriever cat, 27 



Reverbere for fowling in France, 365 



Rhine, mode of shooting on banks of, 271 



Rock-fowling in Norway, 345 



the Orkneys, 351 



Faroe Islands, 352 



Shetland Isles, 354 



St. KHda, 357 



Ruff and Reeve, mode of capturing, &c., 

 310 



Russian fowler's mode of capturing wild- 

 geese, 384 



Sambo, 105 



on the shore at night, 288 



his first lesson in the fens, 295 



Sailing punt, 158 



Scandinavia, 343 



Scaup duck, 261 



Scoter ditto, 261 



Scow (American), 376 



Senegal, 342 



Setting pole, 141 



Shetland Isles, fowling at, 354 



Shooting wild- fowl (generally), 95 



yacht, 221 



boat, 226 



wild-fowl under sail, 211 



on coast by daylight, 269 



by night, 280 



in the fens, 289 



Shoveller shooting, 259 

 Siberian modes of fowling, 384 

 Slaking (America) , 379 

 Sledging for wild-fowl, 176 

 Snaring woodcocks, 333 

 rock-fowl, 360 



Snipe shooting, 318 



netting, 322 



laws affecting, 334 



Snow goose (Siberia) 



Solan geese, 191 



Spearing wild-fowl in Greenland, 388 



Springes, 9, 333, 360 



Stalking horse (natural and artificial) , 99 



Stanchion-gun, 137 



Stint shooting, 316 



Stone curlew, 306 



Stour river, 252 



Sunk tubs and boxes, 273, 278 



Swan shooting, 201 



laws, 208. 



Teal shooting, 250 



capturing (see Decoy) 



Ted Steele, anecdote of, 285 

 Tell-tales, 118 



Throw stick of Egyptian fowlers, 26 

 Tipping the punt-gun, 133 

 Toling wild-fowl (America), 371 

 Tunnel nets, 21, 65. 



