LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



FULL-PAGE PLATES. 



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' ' Among 'em at Last ! " Frontispiece. 



Wexford Floatmen Setting up to Fowl together ..... 26 



A Shot on the Ebb at Break of Day 42 



"Will they Wait?" 54 



Entrance to Decoy Pipe ......... 93 



Brent Geese, after a Shot . 157 



Plover Net 185 



Plover-netting The Moment to Pull . . . . . . 195 



Sculling to Fowl in a Calm at Sea . . . . . . 331 



Yawl Sheer and Half-breadth Plans ....... 332 



Yawl Sail-plan' 336 



A Venture among the Ice for a Shot on it . . . . . . 358 



Single-handed Fowling-punts 467 



Double-handed Fowling-punt . . . . . . . .471 



Setting to Fowl with Paddle and Pole in a Double Punt . . . 472 



Gondola ............ 474 



Light-draught Boat .......... 476 



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American Wigeon .......... 49 



Pintail ............ 51 



Shoveller ............ 55 



Gadwall 58 



Garganey . . . . . . ... . . . . 62 



Bird's-eye View of Decoy ......... 80 



Plan of Decoy Pipe 83 



Decoyman taking Fowl from Net ...... -94 



Pochard and Ferruginous Duck . f . . . . . 100 



Red-crested Duck 101 



Scaup .104 



