INDEX 



ACORNS, 42 



Allamuchy, N. ji, ducks at, 69 



Amateur Sportsman, quoted, 



16, 17, 33, 41, 77, 78, 82, 83, 



92, 137 



American duck clubs, 97 

 American golden-eye, 196 

 American Field, quoted, 88 

 Annual dues, 108 

 Appetite for legislation, 112 

 Artificial ponds, 6, 23, 24 

 Artificial rearing, 15, 49 

 Artificial shooting, 123, 124 

 Ashby decoy, 18 

 Attractive preserves, how 



made, 23 

 Audubon, cited, 55 



BALDPATE, 171 



Bantams, 52 



Barn owl, 76 



Bartram's sandpiper, 153 



Beechnuts, 42 



Big bags, 6, 131 



Black duck, 9; domestication 

 of, 10; at Fisher's Island, 

 69; breeding range migra- 

 tion, 166 



Black-head, 9, 194 



Blood, bait, 83 



Bluebill, 194 



Blue-winged teal, 101, 178 



Bennett, quoted, 31, 103 



Brambles, 29 



Brant, 144 



Breeding ground, 2; canvas- 

 back, 3; destruction of, 4; 

 value of, 4; see appendix 



Breeders' law, 141, 159; in 

 Colorado, 160 



Breeders of game, 1, 101 



Breeding, locally by clubs, 4; 

 canvasbacks, 10; sea ducks, 

 10; simple, 17 



Breeding places, 19, 20 



Breeding range, 12; see ap- 

 pendix 



Brewster, William, quoted, 80 



Briars, 29 



Broadbill, 194 



Brushwood, 29 



Buffle-head, 197 



Bureau of Biological Survey, 

 160; see appendix 



Burroughs, John, quoted, 86 



CACKLING GOOSE, 144 

 California marshes, 32 

 Canada, 10 

 Canada goose, 11, 33 

 Canada goslings, 51 

 Canvasback, 9 ; breeding 



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