INDEX. 



335 



Pectoral sandpiper, 92-160. 



Peculiarities of bay-birds, 186. 



Pigeon-match in England, 44 



Pigeon-shooting practice, 2^4. 



Pigeon-tail duck, 310. 



Pintail duck, 310. 



Potomac, ducks on, 20. 



Pivot-guns, condemned, 23-25. 



Plover, shooting, directions for, 188; 

 a game bird, 10 ; kinds of, 109 ; 

 discussion about, 110, 111 ; Frank 

 Forester and Giraud on, 112; cha- 

 radrius helveticus, 112, 141 ; plu- 

 vialis, 112, 143 ; black-bellied, 112, 

 141 ; bull-head, 112, 141 ; ring-neck 

 or ring, 113; semipalmatus, 113; 

 Wilson's, 113 ; piping or beach- 

 bird, 118, 145; melodius, 113; 

 kildeer, 113, 146; vociferus, 113, 

 146 ; "Bill's" remarks about names 

 of, 113 ; specific character of each 

 species, 141 ; black-breast, 141, 

 156 ; beetle-headed, 141 ; American 

 golden, 143, 1T9 ; frost bird, 143 ; 

 hiaticula, 145; sanderling, 147; 

 rubidus, 147 ; turnstone, 148 ; ge- 

 nus strepsilas, 148; brant-bird, 

 148 ; strepsilas interpret, 148; horse- 

 foot snipe, 148 ; beach-robins, 148 ; 

 sandpiper, 150 ; robin-snipe, 150 ; 

 red-breasted sandpiper, 150 ; trin- 

 ga cinerea, 150 ; tringa rufa, 150 ; 

 upland plover, 152; grey, grass, 

 or field. 152, 179. 



Plover, American ring, 158. 



(See bay-birds and bay -snipe.) 



Poachers, 15. 



Pond-lily channel, 269. 



Punting for rail, 192. 



Quail, a game-bird, 10; not migra- 

 tory, 10; time for killing, 17-18. 

 Quail snipe, 1T1. 



Raccoon Beach, 23. 



Rail, a game-bird, 10 ; none in Eng- 

 land, 58 ; shooting, 190 ; flight of, 

 191 ; description of sport, 191, 202 ; 

 in boat, 192 ; Delaware sport, 194, 

 197; breech-loader best for, 192; 

 charge for, 195 ; best piaces for 

 rail-shooting, 199; rail In Illinois, 

 199 ; varieties of, 201 ; short-billed 

 and long-billed, 201 ; Hackensack 

 shooting, 201 ; eating of, 203. 



Raft-duck, 820. 



Red-head duck, 319. 



Red-backed sandpiper, 156. 



Red-breasted sandpiper, 150-111. 



! Restaurants having game out of sea- 

 j son, 15. 



' Ring-plover or ring-neck, 113-158. 

 ; Ring-tailed martin, 170. 



Rivalry in bay-snipe shooting, 70. 

 j Robberies by ducks from each other, 

 I 235. 

 1 Robins, service of, 12. 



Robin-snipe, 7S-150. 



Rules for trap-shooting, 826. 



Sail-boat used to pursue ducks, 24. 

 Sand-fleas, 135. 

 Sander'ing, 147. 



Sandpiper, 138, 150 ; Bartram's, 110, 

 152 ; pectoral, 92, 160 ; red-breast- 

 ed, 150; red-backed, 156; long- 

 ! legged, 157; Wilson's, 162. 

 Scaup, 238, 320. 

 Scientific names for birds, 92. 

 Scolopacidae, 132, 170 ; noveboracen- 

 sis. 182, 171; flavlpes, 166; fedoa, 

 168. 



Seasons for bay-birds, 71. 

 Sea-duck, 318. 

 Semipalmated taller, 164 

 Shell-drake, 325. 



Shooting, dress for, 90; .match in 



I England, 44 ; on Jersey coast, 106 ; 



rail, 190 ; from boats, 192 ; duck, 



i 216; at the West, 220; art of, 



274; trap, rules for, 326. 

 Short-billed curlew, 178. 

 i Short-neck, 92. 



i Shot, the dead, 45, 58 ; by the French 

 gentleman, 69; for ducks, 238; 

 what is a good one, 277 ; cross, 

 278 ; aim, 279 ; recoil, 280 ; crack, 

 274 ; load, 281 ; quickness, 283 ; 

 practice, 283. 

 i Shoveller duck, 317. 

 Sickle-bills, 75, 188 

 I Sickle-billed curlew, 174 

 i Sir Francis Francis, 277. 

 i Sneak-box, 114 



: Snipe, a game - bird, 10 ; time for 

 killing, 17; when it stools, 183; 

 migration of, 18 ; time for bay- 

 snipe, 19 ; batteries, 20 ; no bay- 

 snipe in England, 58; killed by 

 breech-loaders, 60; English snipe, 

 114, 138; shooting bay-shipe, 66, 

 103; what are so-called, 66; win- 

 ter-snipe, 156 ; peep, 156 ; blind, 

 157 ; frost, 157 ; meadow, 160 ; 

 jack, 160 ; quail, 171 ; snipe, 170. 



(See bay-snipe.) 

 South-southerly duck, 328. 

 Spoonbill duck, 817. 

 Spirit duck, 322. 



