INDEX 



317 



Sandringham, pheasant-shooting at, 

 231 



Saunders, Mr. Howard, on land- 

 rail, 149 ; quoted on geese, 189 



Scandinavia, ptarmigan-shooting in, 

 124 



Scaup duck, the, 212 



Schultze powder, 28, 79 



Scotch hare, 163, 167 



Scoter ducks, 215 



Scotland, black-game-shooting in, 

 118; red-grouse-shooting in, 119; 

 ptarmigan in, 125 ; attempts to 

 establish the golden pheasant in, 

 127 ; the quail in, 143 ; landrail 

 in, 148 ; the grey-lag goose in, 

 198 ; grouse-driving in, 226 



Seafield, Lord, 127 



Setters, for partridge-shooting, 95, 

 96 ; compared with pointers, 97 ; 

 three breeds of, 98 ; retrieving, 



99 



Sharp, Henry, target experiments 

 by, 50-57 ; present at a punt-gun 

 trial with Rifleite powder, 61-65 ; 

 experiments with shot made by, 

 91 ; sporting dogs of, 99, IO2, 

 103 ; three North American snow 

 geese observed by, 197 ; goose- 

 shooting adventures of, 264-275 ; 

 cluck-shooting adventure of, 285- 

 288 



Sheep-dogs for sporting purposes, 

 1 02 



Sheldrake, or sheld-duck, 201 ; the 

 ruddy sheldrake, 202 



Shooting, 6 ; flight, 20 



Shooting of game, rook, 180 ; 

 goose, 196 ; two methods of, 224 ; 

 grouse, 224-230 ; pheasant, 230 ; 

 partridge, 235 ; on choice of guns 

 for, 237 ; quail, 242 ; landrail, 

 245 ; woodcock, 247 ; snipe, 250 ; 

 hare, 254 ; rabbit, 257 ; wild-fowl, 

 259 ; wild swan, 260 ; wild goose, 

 262-281 ; duck, 283-292 ; plover, 

 293 ; shore birds, 295-297 



Shore-bird-shooting, 295-297 



Shot, considered, 87-94 



Shoveller, the, 207 



Siemens steel, 14 



Sligo, attempts to establish black 

 grouse in, 117 



Smith, Mr. Cecil, on geese, 190 



"Smokeless Diamond" powder, 81 



Smokeless Powder Company, 60; 



trial of punt-gun with Rifleite by, 



61-65 

 Snipe, considered, 155 ; the great 



snipe, 157; the common snipe, 



159 ; the Jack snipe, 161 ; on 



the shooting of, 250-253 

 Snow goose, the, of North America, 



197 

 Somersetshire, hills of, black grouse 



on, 118 



Spaniels, various breeds of, 104-106 

 Sparrow-hawk, the destructiveness 



of, 305 

 " Special " caps for concentrated 



nitros, 83 



Spectator, The, on partridges, 135 

 Sporting Goods Review, 1 he, series 



of loading instructions issued by, 



76-80 

 " Sporting Guns and Gunpowders," 



41 



S.S. powder, 28, 79 

 Stevenson, Mr. Henry, on snipe, 



158, 161 



Stoat, the, described, 310 

 Stockdove, the, 170 

 Stone, Mr. E. H., editor of The 



Sporting Goods Review, 76 

 Stubbs, George, painter, 98 

 Swans described, 185-188 ; on 



shooting, 259, 260 

 Sweden, the wild swan in, 186 



Target-shooting for testing guns, 

 39 ; some results from experi- 

 ments, 41, 45, 50-57 



Taymouth Castle, 115 



Teal, the, 210 



Tegetmeier, Mr. W. B., quoted on 

 pheasants, 129 



Terriers, as sporting dogs, 102 



Times, The, as wadding for shot- 

 guns. 84 



Tolley, Messrs. J. and W., London 

 and Birmingham, gun-makers, 13; 

 their punt-guns recommended, 

 27; the "Altro" gun made by, 



3 1 

 Toms, Mr. Frederick, late editor of 



The Field, 41 

 Trumpeter swan, the, 188 

 Tufted duck, the, 212 

 Turnstone, the, 222 

 Tweedmouth, Lord, attempt to 



establish Reeves' pheasant in 



Ross-shire, 127 



