INDEX. 



333 



shoveller, 817 ; sea duck, 818; can- 

 vas-back, 818; red-head, 819; 

 broad-bill, blue-bill, scaup, black- 

 head, raft, 820 ; whistler, golden eye, 

 groat-head, 821 ; butter-ball, buffel- 

 headed, spirit, 822 ; old wife, south- 

 southerly, old squaw, long-tailed, 

 828 ; Merganser, 824 ; shell-drake, 

 goosander weaser, 825. 

 Dusky duck, 308. 



Eating, which birds are best for, 93. 

 England, no bay-snipe nor rail in, 



58. 

 England, trial of breech-loaders in, 



44^7 

 English guns, German palmed off as, 



80. 



English guns preferable, 37. 

 English law defines game, 7. 

 English snipe, 114; seasons for, 188. 

 English duck, 306. 

 European woodcock, 8. 



Farmer's interest in protecting birds, 

 10. 



Fat-bird, 92-160. 



" Field," the, on breech and muzzle- 

 loaders, 43. 



Field-plover, 152. 



Fight for shooting stands, 126. 



Fighting, reflections on, 129. 



Filling cartridges, 50. 



Firing gun too close to companion, 

 70. 



Fish. blue, seasons for, 188; bony 

 134. 



Fishing at the West, 261. 



Flight of bay-snipe, 72-73, 86 ; direc- 

 tion of, 73. 



Flight of game-birds, led by bay- 

 snipe, 18 ; order of flight, 18. 



Flight of plover, 153. 



Food, which birds are best for, 93. 



Frank Forester on plover, 112. 



French gentleman's beautiful shot, 69. 



Fresh-water ducks, 806. 



Frost-birds and frost-snipe, 92, 113, 

 148, 157. 



Fute, the, 176. 



Fuligula, genus, 818 ; valisnerla, 818 ; 

 ferina, 319; marila. 820; clan- 

 gula, 821; albeola, 822; glacialis. 



GadwaU, 808. 



Game, definition of in English law, 

 7; protection of, l'\ 14-15; pur- 

 chase of at unseasonable times, 15 ; 



at restaurants, 15 ; legal times for 

 killing, 17; upland game disap- 

 pearing, improper pursuit of, 20; 

 bay-birds not killed as game south 

 of Virginia, 95. 



Game-birds, definition of term, 9, 278. 



Game-laws, 14. 



" Gap," the, 260. 



Geese, game-birds, 10 ; description of 

 varieties, 803. 



Genus strepsilas, 148 ; totanus, 163; 

 limosa, 168 ; numenius, 173 ; anser, 

 803 ; cygnus, 805 ; anas, 806 ; fuli- 

 gula, 818 ; Mergus, 324. 



German guns, 80 ; duck, 808. 



Ghost stories of Jersey coast, 120. 



Giraud on plover, 112. 



Godwit, 183, 168, 170 ; great marbled, 

 163. 



Golden plover, 77 ; specific character, 

 143, 179 ; at Nepeague Beach, 15. 



Golden-eye duck, 821. 



Goose, the, 303 ; wild, 304 ; Canada, 

 804 ; brant, 304 ; barnacle, 8u4 ; 

 brent, 804. 



Goosander weaser, 325. 



Grass plover, 152. 



Grassy point. 



Greater yellow-shanks, 165. 



Great pond, Long Island, 137. 



Great-head duck, 321. 



Green-head duck, 806. 



Green- winged teal, 814. 



Grey duck, 306, 310. 



Grey plover, 152. 



Grouse, timefor killing, 18. 



Guns, good and inferior, 27; first 

 used for feathered game, 7 ; chang- 

 ing, 28 ; for bay-birds, 87, 90 ; 

 cheap, dangerous, 28 ; light, neces- 

 sary, 29 ; difficulty of distinguishing 

 between good and bad, 80 ; Ger- 

 man, palmed off as English, 30 ; 

 importers of. practise deceptions, 

 30; how to distinguish good from 

 bad, 81 ; how to select, 31 ; how to 

 carry, 87, 2S6 ; protect and clean, 

 87, 88, 8'J ; Manton's theory, 82 ; 

 breech, shape of, 82 ; breech-load- 

 ers, 32-37 ; advantages of, 42 ; ob- 

 jections to, 48-48 ; superiority of, 

 33 ; history of, 83 ; Lefaucheux, 

 83 ; Jeffries, 86 ; English preferred, 

 87 ; Dougall's invention the lock- 

 %st 61 ; the dead-shot, 48, 58-59 ; 

 makers of in America, 63 ; fired too 

 close to shooting companion, 70 ; 

 recoil of gun, 230; load for, 2S1 ; 

 shot for. 282 ; rules for safety, 234. 



Habits of plover, 153-160. 



