BRANT SHOOTING. {Anas birnida.) 



THE time for shooting brant (or brent) along our 

 New England coasts is in the spring, and the 

 season for nearly all other kinds of wild fowl being in 

 the autumn, brant shooting gives New England sports- 

 men about the only — we might safely say the only desir- 

 able — wild-fowl shooting at this season of the year. 



Brant are well worth the attention and study of the 

 sportsman, although he may never have occasion to 

 pull trigger on one of them. Like all migratory birds 

 and water-fowl, they have their appointed times for 

 leaving the warm regions of the South for the colder 

 climate of the North. They begin their flights about 

 the middle of March, and in getting to their Northern 

 breeding-grounds take considerable time, as they jour- 

 ney along in an easy manner, stopping frequently at 

 good feeding-places on the way, particularly at various 

 points on Chesapeake Bay and Long Island, until they 

 reach Cape Cod. Here they usually stop for several 

 days for the purpose of preparing for a more extended 



