INDEX. 



American system of wild-fowling, 370 



Scow, or shooting yacht, 376 



Amphibious fowlers, 390 



Ancient methods of capturing wild-fowl, 



7,14,15,18 

 Anecdote of the young farmer, 283 



of Ted Steele, 285 



of punting parson, 172 



of punting shoemaker, 175 



Arabian mode of fowling, 393 

 Archery anciently used for fowling, 9 

 Arctic regions, 342 

 Argumentum, 7 

 Aunt Sally, 27. 



Battery for wild-fowl shooting (American) , 



377 



Battue grand (in France), 368 

 Bean-goose, 189 

 Beaumont decoy, 42 

 Bernicle goose, 185 

 Bird calls, 294 



(Russian), 384 



Bird-lime, 17 



Birdmen of Norway, 345 



Bird pole, 345 



Black duck, 261 



Black goose, 178 



Black-throated diver, 267 



Boat, the shooting, 226 



Boats of Egyptian fowlers, 28 



Brantham flight pond, 83 



Brent geese, 178 



Brent goose shooting, 213, 215 



Brightlingsea, lamentable fate of two 



youths, 168 

 Burrow duck, 260. 



Calabash used for fowling,, 390 

 Canoe for wild-duck shooting (English), 

 229 



(American), 371 



Canvas-back duck, 375 



Ceylon, mode of fowling in, 392 



Champlain lake, shooting on, 371 



Chasse de la Hutte, 366 



Chinese mode of fowling, 393 



Cienega de Tescas, fowling on the lake 



of, 393 



Clench-built gunning-punts, 118 

 Coast, shooting on, 269 

 Conical hoods for fowling, 15 

 Coot shooting (England), 252 

 (France), 368 



Coots, mode of capturing in Persia, 380 

 Costume of wild-fowler, 101, 271 

 Cranes, mode of capturing, 15, 200 

 Cripple chase, 232 

 Curbaculum, 8 

 Curlew shooting, 304. 



Decoys, history of, 30, 37 

 Decoy profits, 41 



pond, 44 



pipe, 48 



ducks, 53 



piper, 56 



mode of capturing wild-fowl at, 61, 



67 



plunderers, 73 



laws affecting, 76 



French, 368 



hovels (Siberian), 384 



Delaware, punting on the river (note), 



149 



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