Index 



589 



Line shooting 



Description of method, 62-63. 

 White- winged scoter, 180. 

 Little ring plover \_agialitis dubia~\ 



470. 

 Live decoys 



Duck-shooting, 17. 

 Goose-shooting, 205. 

 Lockhart, Mr., nests of buffle- 



head, 151. 



Long-billed curlew {numenius Ion- 

 giro sir is\ 435. 

 Long Island 



Battery-shooting, 33-37. 

 Brant season, 245, 246. 

 Shinnecock Bay, see that title. 

 Stilt sandpiper resort, 356. 

 White-winged scoter resort, 179- 



1*1. 



Long Point, duck-shooting, 46. 

 Long-toed stint \tringa damacensis] 



380. 

 Lophodytes cucullatus, see Hooded 



merganser. 

 Louisiana clapper rail, 278. 



Macrorhamphus griseus, red- 

 breasted snipe, 348. 



Macrorhamphus scolopaceus, red- 

 bellied snipe, 352. 



Magdalen Islands, Eskimo curlew, 



445- 



Mallard [anas boschas] 73. 



Characteristics and habits, 76-79. 



Geographical range, 76. 



Hybrids, 75, 201-202. 



Pacific coast, 515. 



Shooting, 78. 



Marbled godwit \limosa fedoa~\ 395. 

 Mareca americana, baldpate, 91. 

 Mareca penelope, European widgeon, 



89. 

 Market gunning and the destruction 



of game, 68. 

 Marshes, shore-bird shooting, 312. 



Masked duck \nomonyx dotninicus~\ 



1 88. 



Massachusetts, Canada goose hunt- 

 ing, 236. 

 Mauritius, manner of catching rail, 



1675. 273. 

 Meadow-hens, name for clapper rail, 



279. 



Merganser americanus, American 



merganser, 191. \ 



Merganser serrator, red-breasted 



merganser, 194. 

 Mergansers \inergin<z\ 

 American, 191. 

 Characteristics, 190. 

 Diagnosis of family, 565. 

 Hooded merganser, see that 



title. 



Red-breasted, 194. 

 Smew, 199. 



Mergina:, see Mergansers. 

 Mergus albellus, smew, 199. 

 Metric's, Amherst shore-bird sport, 



309. 

 Mexican jacana [jacana spinosa~\ 



497- 

 Mexico 



Black-bellied tree-duck, 1901, 



254. 



Cinnamon teal, 103. 

 Duck-shooting experiences, 57. 

 Goose-shooting experiences, 212. 

 Greater yellowleg haunt, 409. 

 Sora rail, 286. 

 Warfare on water-fowl, 4. 

 Micropalama himantofus, stilt sand- 



piper, 355- 



Migration of water-fowl, 3. 

 Mississippi, wood-duck shooting, 514. 

 Mongolian plover \agialitis mon- 



gola~\ 475. 



Monomoy Island, shore-bird shoot- 

 ing, 303- 



Moore, N. B., description of Florida 

 duck, 85-86. 



