COCK SHOOTING 91 



of Eastern North America. To-day this bird is practically extinct. 

 Probably no bird is less like the fleet passenger pigeon than the little 

 owlet-like woodcock ; yet the lack of protection against the too heavy 

 hand of man may prove as fatal in the one case as it has done in the 

 other, and may ultimately deprive America of one of the finest game 

 birds that ever graced a covert. 



Note. I consider W. W. Greener's 12- or i6-bore cylinder, or 

 else slightly choked barrels, 24-inch barrel, weighing in the vicinity 

 of six pounds, the most useful and satisfactory gun for use in Canada 

 for cock and snipe shooting ; for duck and shore-bird, curlew, and 

 plover shooting Greener's 12-bore , 26-inch barrels (the left slightly 

 choked) and for grouse shooting Greener's lo-bore the best. 



