INDEX 



Abbey chilled shot — table of sizes, 217 

 " Altro" gun, 29 

 Ambuscades, 79, 122 

 Ammunition, shoulder-guns, 32-41 

 Aneroid barometer, 164 

 Arrangement of gear aboard a punt, 



154 

 Avocet, 333 



Baling-pot, 153 

 Barometer, Aneroid, 164 

 liar-Tailed Godwit, 346 

 Bean Goose, 302 

 Bernacle, 304 

 Bewick's Swan, 300 

 Bittern, American, 325 



— Common, 324 



— Little, 324 



Black-Necked or Eared Grebe, 352 

 Black-Tailed Godwit, 346 

 Boat-hook, 162 ' 



Boot-jack recoil, 194 

 Boots, Dressing for, 245 

 Breech-cap, Leather, for punt-gun, 



230 

 Breeching ropes, for punt-gun, i8g, 



191, 279 

 Brent, 303 

 Broadlmid Sport, 48 

 Buffel-Headed Duck, 319 



Cabin equipment, 164, 165 



Calling, shore-birds and wildfowl, 



89-95 



Care of punts, 42, 231, 232 

 Cartridge cases for punt- or swivel- 

 gun, 202 

 Cartridge cases, 40 



— defective, 41 



— extractors, 46, 47 



— for punt-gun, 215, 216 



— tallow (Colonel Hawker), 39 

 Caspian Plover, 331 

 Charles Whittle, 202 

 Clothes, Colour of, 76, 77 



Clothes for wildfowling, 48, 49, 50, 



243-5 

 Colonel Hawker, 16, 29, 32, 39 

 Commissioners, Rivers, 53 

 Commissioners, Woods, Forests, and 



Land Revenues, 52 

 Common Bittern, 324 



— Heron, 325 



— Pochard, 313 



— Sandpiper, 339 



— Scoter, 318 



— Sheld-duck, 304 



— Snipe, 348 



— Teal, 306 

 Compass, 47, 163 

 Construction of punts, 264-72 

 Conversion of punt-guns, M.L. to 



B.L., 196-204 

 Cost of punting gear, 234 



— punt-guns, 235 



— punts, 235 



County Borough Councils, 59 



— Councils, 53, 55 



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