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like, are usually killed by the sportsman, if encountered in pur- 

 suit of other game, though never made the object of especial 

 chase. 



None of these, however, can it be deemed unsportsmanlike 

 or snobbish to shoot, while in the field, with dogs, as it is to kill 

 Pigeons, Meadow Larks, Thrushes, or the like, since their haunts 

 and habits are generally in some sort like game-like, and dogs 

 will, for the most part, draw on them, if not stand them dead. 



None of tliese, however, require any fuller notice than the 

 above, and hence I proceed to shooting the Sora Rail on the 

 Delaware, 



