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work; snapshooting; summer woodcock; how they fly; how they alight ; 

 to mark them ; to shoot them ; dry weather ; wet weather ; in corn ; during 

 their moult. Summer migration ....... 282-295 



GROUSE SHOOTING ON THE PRAIRIES. 



Six varieties of grouse the ruffed grouse; the Canada grouse; the willow 

 grouse ; the geographical range of these three. How to shoot the ruffed 

 grouse ; the Canada grouse and willow grouse rarely shot ; the pinnated 

 grouse or heath hen ; the sharp-tailed grouse. Range of the pinnated grouse ; 

 season for shooting; size of shot; shooting in August; in September; in 

 October; pointers the best dogs; why so; best way to hunt; proper gun; 

 how they fly; how to kill them; great sport .... 296-305 



BIRDS NOT GAME. 



The upland plover or Bartram's sandpiper ; where found ; shooting them from 

 chaises at Newport; stalking them; poor sport. Rail shooting. The sora 

 rail; where found; when; their habits; their flight; how to kill them ; the 

 proper gun; the proper charge; the landing net; reed birds; teal; galli- 

 nules; anecdotes of shooting; slaughter, not sport . . . 306-315 



AUTUMN SHOOTING. 



Quail; woodcock; ruffed grouse; large hare; smaller hare; morning shooting; 

 when to start; how to beat for quail; the best ground; the point; the 

 flush; single birds; the bevy; how and where to shoot; how to mark; 

 how they fly ; where they will alight ; retention of scent ; lurking ; after- 

 noon shooting; quail a fast flyer; rises behind. The ruffed grouse; his 

 whirr on rising ; autumn woodcock ; his different flight now; his autumn 

 lying grounds ; the smaller hare ; to hunt with beagles ; habits of the hare ; 

 best grounds ; how to get shots ; where to hit him . . . 316-332 



WILD FOWL SHOOTING. 



In Chesapeake Bay. The swan ; the canvass-back ; the red head ; the scaup ; 

 the buffel-headed duck; the South-southerly; the ruddy duck; the wid- 

 geon ; the teal ; English widgeon ; English teal ; J. C. Bell ; Chesapeake Bay 

 shooting j from the points ; how fowl are missed ; the best guns ; allowance 

 to be made for speed of flight. To tole wild fowl ; how to shoot on the 

 water ; paddling up to fowl ; proper powder ; size of shot ; goose shooting ; 

 from batteries ; unsportsmanlike ; Squam Beach ; Barnegat ; from boats in 

 hassock ; over stools ; calling fowl ; coots ; inland duck shooting ; the mal- 

 lard ; the pin-tail duck ; the green- winged teal ; the blue-winged teal ; the 

 golden eye ; the summer duck ; the dusky duck ; the winter duck ; the 

 trumpeter swan ; the snow goose ; the white-fronted goose ; shooting on 

 drowned meadows ; by stream edges ; on points of the great lakes ; on the 

 rice lakes ; best guns for this sport. John Mullin's guns . . 333-350 



THE FOREST AND THE PLAINS. 



Moose : cariboo ; elk ; buffalo ; antelope : bear ; deer ; turkey. How to follow 

 trail ; not to be learned from books ; driving deer ; chasing on horseback : 



