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INDEX. 



Sprig-tail duck, 310. 



Sport, misapplication of term, 271, 

 272 ; when in perfection, 19 ; spoil- 

 ed by batteries, 20; by watering- 

 places, 9G; at South and West, 22, 

 220 ; at Barnegat Bay, 22 ; at Ne- 

 peague Beach, 180. 



Sporting, defence of, 273. 



Sportsmen, term misapplied, 18, 271 ; 

 protect birds, 14 ; club in the 

 West, 219 ; shooting there, 220 ; 

 suggestions to, 271 ; art of shoot- 

 ing, 274; shot, 275. 



Squan Beach, 97. 



Stands, 79 ; fight for, 106. 



Stools, 79-80 ; India-rubber, 83 ; dead 

 birds, 82; wooden, 81. 



Stories of Jersey pirates, ghosts, and 

 wreckers, 119; of the lucky man's 

 duck-shooting. 240 ; of the unlucky 

 man's trout-fishing, 245. 



" Stratton's," 187. 



Strepsilas, genus, 148 ; interpres, 132, 

 14S. 



Swallows serviceable, 12. 



Summer-duck, 812. 



Swan, 805 ; White, 806 : American, 

 806. 



Table of shots with breech-loaders, 

 45, 46. 



Tatler, 166; semipalmated, 164 ; tell- 

 tale, 165. 



Tell-tale tatler, 165. 



The beach, New Jersey, 101. 



The " dead shot," 48. 



The Englishman's woodcock-shoot- 

 ing, 126. 



The fight for stands, 126. 



" The Field," 48. 



The French gentleman's shot, 69. 



The Jersey girls, 98. 



The " lockfast," 61. 



Times for killing birds, 17, 18, 19. 



Totanus, 133. 163 ; semipalmatus, 

 164; vociferus, 165; flavipes, 166. 



" Trading." 104. 



Traits of bay-birds, 103. 



Trap-shooting, 288; where pursued, 

 2S8; obtaining pigeons for, 289, 

 291 ; assistants for, 291 ; skill in, 

 291 ; tame and wild pigeons com- 

 pared, 232 ; how to keep pigeons 

 for, 293; varieties of traps, 294, 

 299; retrieving of birds In this 

 sport, 295; missfires, 206; guns 

 and load for, 296-298 ; number of 

 birds which may be killed in suc- 

 cession, 207; English rules, 298; 

 ties, 293 ; New York State Conven- 



tion of 1865, 299 ; plunge and 

 spring traps, 299 ; decay of trap- 

 shooting, 300 ; rules for, 326. 



Trial of breech-loaders in England, 48. 



Tringae, 1*3; Bartramia, 110, 152; 

 hiaticula, 158 ; cinerea, 150 ; rufa, 

 150; alpina, 156, himantopus, 157 ; 

 pectoralis, 160 ; semipalmata, 162 ; 

 pusilla, 162. 



Turkey, 9. 



Turnstone, 132, 148. 



Unlucky man's trout-fishing, 245. 

 Upland game disappearing^ 19. 

 Upland plover, 152. 

 Use of song-birds, 12. 



Varieties of bay-birds, 74; discus- 

 sion as to, 109. 



Varieties of names of bay-birds, 91, 

 109. 



Virginia rail, 201. 



Wager about duck-shooting, 263. 



Water-fowl, time to kill, 18. 



Watering-place, spoils sport, 96. 



Welsh drake, 808. 



West, the sportmen's club there, 

 219 ; adventure in, 221. 



Western sport, 22. 



Willet-shooting, 114. 



Willet, 164. 



Winter-snipe. 156. 



Wilson's plover, 118. 



Wilson's sandpiper, 162. 



Wild rice of tho West, 224. 



Wild celery stolen from canvas-backs 

 by widgeons, 235. 



Wild-fowl shooting, 205 ; in batteries, 

 205 ; at the West and South, 206 ; 

 dogs for, 207: localities for, 218; 

 how to shoot. 215. / 



Whist' ing for birds, 88. 



Whistler duck, 821. 



White swan, 306. 



Widgeon, 319. 



Wild duck, 306. 



Woodcock, European, 8; a game- 

 bird. 10 ; time to kill, 17 ; shoot- 

 ing by the Englishman, 126. 



Wood-duck, 312. 



Wooden stools, 81. 



Worms, depredations of. 11. 



Wreckers of Jersey coast, 116. 



Yellow-legs, 77, 166; big, 165; little, 



166. 



Yellow-shanks, greater, 165. 

 Yellow-tatler, 166. 

 Yelper, T7, 165. 



