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INDEX. 



Decoyman, hints for, 89, 90. 

 Decoys, 67, 68. 



construction of, 73, 83. 

 Foxes in, 69. 

 mode of working, 81. 

 Pike and Herons in, 71. 

 Deer, 313-323- 

 Fallow, 321-323. 

 Red, 313-321- 

 Roe, 323. 

 Divers, 5, 125. 



Black-throated, 133. 

 Great Northern, 126-132. 

 Red-throated, \^-\^. 

 Diving-ducks, 3, 5, 21, 95. 



mode of feeding, 95. 



mode of flight, 9. 



striking a light- 



house, 9. 



Dressing for boots, 438. 

 Duck and Mallard, 29. 

 Duck, Buffel-headed, 109, no. 

 Eider, 113. 

 Ferruginous, 100, 101. 

 Long-tailed, 114. 

 Red-crested, 101. 

 Summer, 101. 

 Tufted, 105-107. 

 Ducks, Decoy, 75. 



Diving, 3, 5,21,95. 

 Surface, 3, 28. 

 Dundalk Lighthouse, 284. 

 Dunlin, 239. 



Eagle, Golden, 291-305. 



a tame, 305. 



chasing a Hare, 



292, 293. 



driving Deer, 294. 



stooping at a 



Woodcock, 304. 

 Eagle, White-tailed, 291-305. 



attacking a 



Seal, 292. 



Eagles, 291-305. 



carrying off children, 298. 



hunting in couples, 301. 

 Erne, 291. 



Elevating-gear, 423, 424. 

 Expenses, 438-443- 



Falcon, the Peregrine, 308, 309. 

 Gyr, 311. 

 Greenland, 310. 

 Iceland, 311. 

 Falcons on the Skelligs, 257. 

 Ferret, use of, in decoy, 87. 

 Flappers, 33. 

 Flighting, 30, 31. 

 Flooring-boards, 369. 

 Following boats, 376, 377. 

 Foot-stretchers, 370. 

 Fowl, habits of, 13, 15, 17. 



migration of, 10. 



flying over cities, 10. 



mode of feeding, 19. 



in position for a shot, 352. 



recovering after a shot, 362, 



363. 



killing neatly, 362. 

 Fowlers, professional, 347-349. 

 Fowling-punts, 444. 



construction of, 



444-473- 



floor-edge of, sec- 



tion, 460. 



stem of, 450, 452. 



stern of, 457. 



wood for, 459. 



Fox, 324. 

 Frost, effects of, on birds, 15, 16. 



Gadwall, 56, 58. 



shyness of, the, 57. 

 Gannet, 136, 261. 



breeding in Ireland, 136, 



137. 

 Garganey, 61,62. 



