FIELD SPORTS 



UNITED STATES AND BRITISH PROVINCES. 



BAY SHOOTING. 



HE Atlantic coasts of the United 

 States, with the deep bays and in- 

 I dentures of their shores, the estuaries 

 of their noble rivers, the wide extent 

 of salt marshes and meadows, inter- 

 spersed with shallow land-locked 

 washes and lagoons, abound, per. 

 haps, more than any other region of 

 the world, in which man and cultivation exist, with all the va- 

 rious tribes of water-fowl and waders, which can minister to the 

 amusement of the sportsman. From the magnificent and stately 

 Swan, down to the minute Sandpiper, every species of aquatic 

 birds abound in their appropriate latitude, and in their peculiar 

 season. 



From Boston bay to the Balize, some portion of the coast 

 will, at all times of the year, be found to swarm with all the 



