INDEX. 



Blue-bill duck, 320. 



Blue-winged teal, 316. 



Blind for shooting, 106. 



Blind-snipe. 157. 



Blue-bills, 288. 



Blue-fish, season for, 133. 



Bony fish, 134. 



Black-breast. 141, 156. 



Brant-bird, 148. 



Breech-loaders, 32, 87 ; advantages 

 of. 42, 237 ; objections to, 43-48-49 ; 

 superiority of. 33 ; history of, 33 ; 

 Lefaucheux, 33 ; mode of using, 84, 

 85; safety of, 89; cartridge for, 

 34, 39, 50, 62 ; needle-gun, 36 ; Jef- 

 fries gun, 36 ; English gun, 87 ; 

 impervious to wet, 41 ; apparatus 

 necessary for, 37 ; recoil of, 41 ; 

 refilling cartridges, 54, 57 ; trial be- 

 tween breech and muzzle-loaders 

 in 1S68, 44; pigeon match with, 

 44 ; discussion as to in " The Field," 

 43 ; the dead shot. 43-59 : heating 

 of gun, 53 ; useful for killing snipe, 

 duck, and rail, 60 ; compared with 

 muzzle-loaders, CO ; Dougall's in- 

 vention, the lockfast, 61 ; price of, 

 62 ; must be imported, 64. 



Broad-bill, 238, 320. 



Brown-back, 171. 



Bull-headed plover, 112-141. 



Buffel-headed duck, 322. 



Butter-ball duck, 322. 



Calls for birds, 79-88-84 



Canvas-back ducks classified as 

 sea-ducks, 237 ; comparison be- 

 tween them and mallards, 237, 318. 



Carrying gun, 87. 



Cartridges for breech-loaders, 84-39 ; 

 safety of, 89 ; impervious to wet, 

 41 ; objections to answered, 50 ; 

 filling, 50 ; refilling, 54-57 ; extrac- 

 tor, 54 ; missfires with, 56 ; best kind, 

 62. (See breech-loaders.) 



Cedar-birds destroy worms, 11. 



Change of guns, 28. 



I hange of seasons for birds, 118. 



Charadrius, helveticus, 112. 141 ; plu- 

 vialis, 112, 148, 179 ; sernipalmatus, 

 118; vociferus, 118,146; hiaticula, 

 145 ; rubidus, 147. 



Charge used for shooting bay-birds, 

 87. 



" Charley's," 101. 



Cheap guns, 28. 



Chesapeake Bay. ducks on, 20. 



Cleaning gun, 89. 



Close times for killing game-birds, 17. 



Clubs, sportsmen's, 14 ; Western, 219. 



Coast of New Jersey, 106. 

 Comparison between breech and 



muzzle-loaders, 60. 

 Confusion in names of birds, 91. 

 Cook's ' Tommy," 98. 

 Crabtown, 100. 

 Crack shots, 274. 

 Cross-shots, 278. 

 Cries of birds, 84. 

 Curlew, 76, 183, 173; Esquimaux 



176. 

 Cygnus, genus, 305 ; Americanus, 306. 



Dead birds, stools made of. 82. 



" Dead-shot," the, 48, 58-59. 



Deceptions by gun-makers, 80. 



Decoys, 79. 



Defence of sporting, 273. 



Definition of game in English law, 7. 



Delaware rail-shooting, 197. 



Depredations of worms checked by 

 birds, 10-11. 



Derivation of name of " plover," 111. 



Description of plover, 111. 



Dipper-duck, 322. 



Doe-bird, 176. 



Dogs, for wild-fowl shooting, 207 ; 

 for all shooting, 208 ; varieties of, 

 209 ; training of, 210 ; colors of, 

 211 ; Newfoundland, 209, 212 ; re- 

 triever, 209 ; at the South, 209. 



Dougall's invention the " lockfast," 

 61. 



Dowitch, 171. 



Dowitcher, the, 78, 182, 171. 



Dress for shooting, 90. 



Ducks, game, 10; time for killing, 

 ]7-18; where plentiful, 20; Clas- 

 sification of, 287 ; flavor of, 286 ; 

 shooting, 219 ; with breech-loader, 

 60 ; sport of, 213-227 ; localities 

 for, 218; weather for, 214; on 

 inland lakes, 219 ; sportsmen's club 

 out West, 219 ; adventures in 

 West. 221, 226 ; Mud Creek bridge, 

 229 ; record of shooting in the 

 West, 238 ; talk about sport, 238 ; 

 canvas-backs and the wild celery, 

 235; shot to be used for, 288; 

 Henry, 282; how to shoot the 

 ducks, 255 ; Irish gentleman's shot, 

 256; among the weeds, 258 ; punt- 

 ing, 259; freshwater. 306 ; mallard, 

 306; greenhead, English, grey, 

 wild, 806-810; gadwall, Welsh 

 drake, German, 308 ; widgeon, 

 bald-pate. 809; pintail, sprig-tail, 

 pigeon-tail, 310 ; wood, 812 ; sum- 

 mer, 312 ; green-winged teal, 814 ; 

 blue-winged teal, 816; spoonbill, 



