APPENDIX.-(B.) 



SPORTING NOMENCLATURE. 



It has been suggested to me by a friend, from whom no sug- 

 gestion is to be disregarded, William T. Porter, Esq., of the 

 Spirit of the Times, that the appropriate sporting nomenclature 

 and terms are so little understood, or so much neglected here, 

 that a brief compilation of the most remarkable in general use, 

 would be an addition to this work, not unacceptable to the 

 sporting world of America ; and agreeing with him in the fact, 

 I have readily fallen into his views. 



I shall proceed, therefore, to give first, the technical name for 

 a single hatching of young from every game bird — that I mean 

 which we call a hi-ood, when speaking of chickens — I shall then 

 go on to the technical term for larger collections of game birds, 

 such as we should call flights or flocks, if speaking of small 

 birds ; and, lastly, I shall point out to what birds, or animals, 

 the words brace, leash, and couple, are properly applicable. 



Turkeys, a single hatching of, is a hrood. 



* Observe here, that neither Partridge nor Pheasant existing in America, 

 the words nide and covey are useless. What is generally called, therefore, a 

 covey of Partridges is a pack of Ruffed Grouse. 



t When we use the term Grouse alone, the Pinnated Grouse is understood 

 to be intended. 



