INDEX. 



Accidents from muzzle-loaders, 42. 



Accidents in rail-shooting. 197. 



A day's shooting in New Jersey, 106. 



Adventure in New Jersey, 99. 



" A Girl from New Jersey," 98. 



American golden plover, 143-179. 



American gun-makers, 63. 



American ring-plover, 158 ; swan, 306. 



Anas, bernicla, 804 ; canadensis, 804 ; 



genus, 806 ; boschas, 306 ; obscura, 

 808 ; strepera, 308 ; Americana, 

 809 ; acuta, 810 ; sponsa, 812 ; 

 crecca, 314; discors, 816; clype- 

 ata, 317. 



Ancient and modern hunting, 8. 



Apparatus necessary for breech- 

 loader, 37. 



Appendix, 308. 



Barnegat Bay, 22. 



Barnegat pirates, 117-118. 



Bartram's sandpiper, 152. 



Bass-fishing out West, 261. 



Bathing-party on Jersey coast, 103. 



Batteries, 20 ; description of, 21, 205 ; 

 condemned, 21, 22, 25. 



Bay -birds, 19 ; definition of, 66 ; im- 

 proper modes of pursuing, 20 ; bat- 

 teries, 20, 21, 22, '25. 



(See Bay-Snipe.) 



Bay-snipe, shooting, 66, 108, 104 ; none 

 in England, 58 ; what are, 66 ; traits 

 of, 103; sociability of, 103; pecu- 

 liarities of, 136; ''trading," 104; 

 skill required for shooting, 67 ; sport 

 of shooting, 68-106 ; shooting on the 

 Jersey coast, 106 ; the French gen- 

 tleman's beautiful shot, 69 ; rivalry 

 in shooting, 70 ; number bagged at 

 one shot, 70; flight of; uncertainty 

 as to, 71, 85, 86-87 ; season for sport, 

 71-72 ; flying, mode of, 72 ; flight, 

 line of, 73-S6; lead migration of 

 game birds, 18; flight, direction ol 

 79-74 ; period of "incubation, 78 

 varieties of, 74 ; sickle-bills, 75 

 jack-curlew, 76; plover, 109; mar 

 lin, 76; willet, 77; golden plover 

 77-112; black-breast, 77; yelper 

 77 ; yellow-legs, 77 ; brant - bird, 

 78-182 ; robin-snipe, 78 ; dowitcher, 



78-132 ; krieker, 78-181 ; pursuit of; 

 best mode. 7S ; stools, 79-80 ; t;2-88 ; 

 calls, 79-83-84 ; stands, 79 ; wooden 

 stools best, 81 ; whistling, 84 ; cries 

 of the birds, 84 ; shooting, uncer- 

 tainty of, 85 ; gun to be used for, 

 87-90 ; charge and powder for, 87- 

 91 ; how to carry the gun. 87 ; shoot- 

 ing, dress for, 90 ; names of; confu- 

 sion as to, 91 ; names of, varieties 

 of, 91 ; names of, scientific, 92-109 ; 

 varieties of; Bartram's sandpiper, 

 110 ; frost-bird and frost-snipe, 92- 

 118 ; meadow-snipe, 92 ; beach-bird, 

 92 ; fat-bird. 92 ; short-neck, 92 ; 

 pectoral sandpiper, 92 ; horsj;foot 

 snipe, 92-132; varieties of, discus- 

 sion about, 109_; which are good 

 eating, 93 ; stringing, how to be 

 done, 94 ; migration of, 94 ; locali- 

 ties for, 94-95, 97 ; not killed south 

 of Virginia, 95; at Quogue, 96; 

 sport spoiled by establishment of 

 watering-place, 96 ; at Squan 

 Beach, 97 ; at Barnegat, Egg Har- 

 bor, Brigantine Beach, 97 ; shooting 

 in New Jersey ,106. 



Beach-bird, 113, 145. 



Beach on Jersey coast, 101. 



Beach-robins, 148. 



Beetle-headed plover, 141. 



Big yellow-legs, 105. 



" Bill," and the names of the plovers, 

 113. 



Bill's ghost stories, 120. 



Bill's house, 116. 



Birds, wounded, what becomes of 

 them, 237. 



Birds, definition of term, 9. 



" game, which are. 10 ; in restau- 

 rants out of season, 15 ; protection 

 of, 10, 13, 14 ; services rendered by, 

 11, 12 ; out of season, 16 ; legal 

 time for killing, 17 ; singing birds, 

 murder of, 13 ; season for killing 

 different kinds, 17,18,19; migra- 

 tion of game-birds, 18. 



Black -bellied plover, 112-141. 



Bald-pate duck, 309. 



Black duck, 808. 



Black-head duck, 320. 



