396 



INDEX. 



Devonshire fowlers, 332 

 Diver shooting, 263 



Great Northern, 266 



black-throated, 267 



red-throated, 268 



Dog, wild-fowl shooter's, 104 



for decoy, 56 



Dotterels, mode of capturing, 307 

 Dress of wild-fowl shooter, 101, 271 

 Drift ice, wild-fowling in, 152 

 Driving wild-fowl, 21 

 Droppers, 216 

 Drugging wild-fowl, 20 

 Duck shooting, 236 

 Dunbirds, 79 



mode of capturing, 89 



Dunlin shooting, 316. 



Earthen pots used for fowling, 

 Egyptian fowling, 25, 393 

 Elevation, art of (punt guna), 123 

 Erskine, Lord Chancellor (note), 234 

 Essex decoys, 41 

 gunning punts, 123. 



Falconry, 10, 195, 341 

 Faroe Islands, fowling in, 352 

 Fens, wild-fowl shooting in, 289 



of Persia, 381 



Ferret used at the decoy, 60 

 Firing punt guns, 133 

 Flapper shooting, 243 

 Flight pond, 82 

 Flight of wild-fowl, 112 

 Flight shooting, 276 



(America), 378 



Flue nets, 13 



Foreign countries, fowling in (generally) , 



341 



Foula, Isle of, fowling in, 356 

 Fowling, 1 . 



ancient terms, 5 



modern ditto, 6 



in Norway, 345 



the Orkneys, 351 



St. Kilda, 357 



Shetland Isles, 354 



rope, 358 



France, wild-fowling in, 363 



French mode of capturing woodcock, 334 



game laws affecting wild-fowl 



shooting, 368. 



Gale at sea (wild-fowling), 218 



Garganey, 251 



Geese, mode of capturing in Eussia, 385 



in India, 390 



Glade nets, 330 



Glade nets of Siberian fowlers, 386 



Godwit shooting, 315 



Goldhanger flight pond, 93 



Golden plover, 298 



Goosander, 266 



Goose shooting, 178 



Grasshopper spring, 138 



Great Northern diver, 266 



Great Bedford level, 289 



Greenland fowler's mode of spearim* 



wild-fowl, 388 

 Grey plover, 298 

 Grey-lag geese, 182 

 Guns (punt), 122 

 Gunning punts, 116. 



Halbran shooting, 244 

 Hampshire gunning punts, 120 

 Hawking v. Falconry, 10, 195, 341 

 Heron, 194 

 Hirta fowling, 361 

 Holme of Nosa, fowlers of, 354 

 Hudson's bay, 342 

 Huttiers (French), 366. 



Ice, punting amongst, 152 



recWess adventure in, ] 56 



Indian mode of capturing wild-fowl, 



Irish decoys, 43 



Itchen Ferry gunning punts, 117. 



Jakut, mode of fowling at, 384. 



Kamtschatka modes of fowling, 387 

 geese pits, 387 



Kilda St., Isle of, mode of fowling, 357. 



Language of wild-fowl, 107 



Lapwing, 298, 300 



Laughing goose, 189 



Laws affecting wild-fowl, woodcocks, and 



snipes, 334 



Lime strings and twigs, 17 

 Lincolnshire fens and fenmen, 38, 291 

 Loading punt guns, 130 

 Lymington sledgers, 176. 



Maldon gunning punts, 120 

 Manningtree coots, 253 

 Marais boats (French), 363 

 Merganser, red-breasted, 264 

 hooded, 265 



Mersea decoy, 72 



flight pond, 83 



Moor hen, 257 

 Muzzle to muzzle, 175. 



Neck-breaking, art of, 91 , 92 



