512 WILDFOWL AND WILDFOWL SHOOTING. 



Cranes. Curlew. Wild Birds and Domestic Animals. Startled Birds 

 Frightening away other Game. Sleeping Wildfowl. Their dispersal at 

 Night to their Feeding Grounds. Thought among the Birds. The 

 Homing Flight of Rooks. Duck Passes. Great Flocks of Wild Duck 

 on Inland Lakes by Day. Bird Sentinels. The Language of Wildfowl. 

 Wildfowl on the Sea Coast at Night. Creeping up to Birds. Punt 

 Shooting. Vigilance of Sentries. Great Flocks of Wildfowl on the 

 British Coasts. The Closing up of the Baltic by Ice. Flocks of Wild- 

 fowl on the Baltic. The Struggle for Existence among Wild Birds. 

 The great Wildfowl Year 1880 8 1 on the British Coasts. Heavy 

 Shots with Punt Guns. The Roar of Pinions of rising Wildfowl. 

 Colonel Peter Hawker and other Authorities on Punt Gun Shooting. 

 Shooting by Moonlight. The Power of Scent in Wildfowl. Flight 

 Shooting in Stormy Weather. The Fly Lines of Ducks. Wildfowl 

 Shooting at Sea. Wildfowl on Chesapeake Bay. Canvas Backed 

 Ducks. Wild Celery. Wild Rice and other Water W T eeds as 1 

 Attractions for Wild Birds. Duck Shooting at Long Point, Lake 

 Erie. Wild Geese. Brent Geese. Sea Grass Wrack. Geese on 

 Tidal Estuaries. Great Shots at Wild Geese. Wildfowl Artillery. 

 Colonel Hawker's Double Gun. Wounded Geese and Ducks. " The 

 Cripple Chase." Plumage of Dead Birds saturated with Water. 

 How does a Bird's Plumage turn Water? The Care of Health by 

 Wild Fowlers. Fatal Result of Chills in the Human Subject. Colonel 

 Hawker on the Care of Health by Sportsmen. Obituary Notice of 

 Col. Hawker. 



T~^\ECIDEDLY among the very best and wholesomest 

 -* ' food which a bountiful Nature has furnished for 

 the sustenance of man, is that which is supplied in 

 every wilderness country from among its feathered 

 tribes. 



The flesh of many kinds of game animals is often 

 hard, coarse, and indigestible ; it has often been re- 

 marked for instance, that the flesh of antelopes is apt 

 to disagree with travellers, and to produce various 

 forms of indigestion ; so also with many of the deer 

 tribe, and other wild animals; few, if any of them, 

 can compare as a continuous diet with the carefully 

 fed meat of domestic animals, such as good beef and 

 mutton. 



But it is otherwise with birds; of these there are 



