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LIST OF PLATES 



Cleaning the Big Gun 



Amateur Punters Observing Passing Fowl 



Comparison of Punts — Single and Double 



Cripple-Stopping . 



Working to Fowl — Double Punt . 



Side Paddling to Fowl — Single Punt 



A Shot with the Big Gun 



Coming Ashore 



Drifting Back to Quarters 



After a Shot 



Returning from an Outing 



Double Punt with Swivel-Gun Mounted 



A Professional Punter of the Humber District 



Heads of Hooper and Bewick's Swan 



Pink-footed Goose 



Brent Goose 



Bernacle Goose . 



Common Sheld-Duck 



Mallard 



Widgeon 



Common Teal 



Pintail . 



Shoveler 



Tufted Duck 



Common Eider 



Red-breasted Merganser 



Shore Birds — Godwits and Curlews 



Dunlin and Ringed Plover 



Little Stint 



Common Sandpiper 



Common Snipe 



Bar-tailed Godwit 



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