CONTENTS. Xlll 



CHAP. LXX., PAGE 363. WILD-FOWLING IN FRANCE. Fens- Marais boats 

 Decoys French decoy-dog Curious method of shooting wild-fowl by aid of 

 a reverbere La Chasse de la Hutte A profitable sport A grand battue 

 French game laws affecting the sport of wild-fowling Perm's de chasse. 



CHAP. LXXL, PAGE 370. WILD-FOWLING IN AMEEICA. Abundance of 

 birds Lake Champlain Curious method of toling wild-fowl Singular dis- 

 covery of the art The toling-dog Interesting proceedings connected with the 

 art Great numbers killed Toling by moonlight American scow or shooting 

 yacht Remarkable equipment Wild-fowling battery Dummy ducks The 

 cabin of the scow Launching the battery towing and anchoring it Yankee 

 punting attempts to put it down Slaking Gilting nets for capturing wild- 

 fowl. 



CHAP. LXXIL, PAGE 380. PERSIAN METHODS OF CAPTURING WILD- 

 FOWL. Shores of the Caspian Curious artifices of the Persian fowlers- 

 Various methods of netting wild-fowlPersian fowling canoe, with dong, lamp, 

 and apparatus for taking wild-fowl. 



CHAP. LXXIIL, PAGE 384. METHODS OF CAPTURING WILD-GEESE 

 IN RUSSIA. Singular stratagems of Siberian fowlers Decoy hovels 

 Hermetically sealed larders Fowlers of Kamtschatka their artifices 

 Geese pits Siberian glade nets, and mode of using them Fowling on the 

 River Ochotska Curious mode of snaring rock fowl Greenland fowlers their 

 mode of spearing wild-fowl Russian fowling nets Contrivances for capturing 

 wild-geese. 



CHAP. LXXIV., PAGE 390. METHOD OF CATCHING WILD-GEESE IN 

 INDIA. The calabashes Amphibious fowlers Mode of fowling in Ceylon 

 Chinese fowlers Capturing wild-geese on the Lake Cienega de Tescas 

 Arabian method of fowling. 



