Index 



427 



Sage-grouse [ Centrocercus uropha- 

 sianus'} 210-220. 



Eggs, 214-216. 



Flesh, value as food, 213. 



Haunter of sage plains, 211-212. 



Hawk chase, 218-219. 



Mating, 214. 



Sporting qualities, 216-217. 

 Salt River Valley, Gambel's par- 

 tridge, 394. 

 San Bernardino, Gambel's partridge, 



395- 



Sand-hill crane \Grus canadensis} 

 Call of, 360. 

 Shooting, 359-366. 



Bog incident, 363-366. 

 Wounded crane, rapier play, 



361-365- 



Sandpiper, see Bartram's sandpiper. 

 San Pedro Martir, mountain -quail, 



388. 

 San Pedro partridge [ 0. p. confinis~\ 



5t 9i 94- 



Santa Barbara, dusky grouse, 411. 

 Santa Monica Mountains, quail, 385. 

 Scaled partridge \_Callipepla squa- 



mata] 5, 91, 94. 



Season, quail -shooting, end of, 64. 

 Seed hens quail-shooting anec- 

 dote, 48. 

 Setters 



Gordon setter, 35. 



Irish setter, 34. 



Llewellyn setters, see that title. 



Quail-shooting, 33-35. 



Qualities for field work, 172- 



173. 



Sharp-tailed grouse 

 Columbian, 194. 

 Prairie sharp-tailed grouse, see 



that title. 

 Sharp-tailed grouse [Pedioecetes 



pkasianellus] 107, 193. 

 Shooting 



Costume, see Sportsmen. 



Shooting \continued~\ 



Cross-firing, 40. 



Game law evasion, 175-176. 



Guns, see that title. 



Sportsmen, see that title. 



Stalking, see that title. 



[See also names of game. ~\ 

 Sierra Nevada 



Dusky grouse, 412, 415. 



Gambel's partridge, 394, 395. 

 Skunk-shooting incident, 203-205. 

 Snake, enemy of Texan Bob-white, 88. 

 Snow 



Grouse shelters, 128-129. 



Ptarmigan plumage coloration, 

 222-223. 



Ptarmigan-shooting, 229-240 ; 

 snow-storm, 236-240. 



Quail-shooting, 66-71. 

 Snow-shoes of ptarmigan, etc., 223- 



224. 



Sonora, Gambel's partridge, 394, 395. 

 Sooty grouse [Z>. o. fuliginosus] 



107, 152. 

 South Dakota, prairie-hen shooting, 



166-168. 

 Sportsmen 



British sportsmen, 351-352. 



Costume 



Gambel's partridge sport, 398. 

 Quail-shooting, 30. 



Eagerness to make the heaviest 

 bag grouse anecdote, 63. 



Farmers' relationship to, 55-61. 



Nervousness, 41-42. 



Outfit, 30. 



[See also Shooting.] 

 Squirrel foe of dove, 370-374. 

 Stalking 



Bartram's sandpiper, 328. 



Ruffed grouse, 112, 120-126. 



Whooping crane, 354. 



Tehichipi, dusky grouse range, 411. 

 Tetraonidce partridge family, I. 



