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A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS 



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MODERN WILDFOWLING. 



BY 



LEV/IS CLEMENT, 



" WlLDFOWIiER." 



CONTENTS. 



aap. 



AX 



[II.) 



Punting.— Introduction. 

 Chap. 



Muzzle-loading Punt Guns 

 (Flint, Percussion and Copper 

 III.) Tube Ignition. 

 IV.) 



V. y Breechloading Punt Guns. 

 VI.) 



VII.— Loading Punt Guns. 

 VIII.— Aiming and Firing Punt Guns. 

 X.— The Setting of Punt Guns. 

 XL — Eecoil and After-recoil Appa- 



XII, 



XIII. 



XIV. 



XV, 



XVI 



XVII 



XVIII. 



XIX. 



XX. 



XXI. 



XXII, 



XXIII 



XXIV 



XXV, 



XXVI. 



Punts. 



—Launching Punts and Canoes. 

 — Punting Accessories. 



V Punting. 



,_My First Single-handed Punt- 

 ing Trip. 

 .) Amateur and Professional 

 i Puntsmen. 



Chap. 



XXVIL 

 XXVIII. 



XXIX. 



XXX 



XXXI 



XXXII. 

 XXXIII, 

 XXXIV, 



XXXV, 

 XXXVI 

 XXXVII, 



XXXVIII 



XXXIX 



XL 



XLI, 



XLII 



XLIII 



XLIV. 



XLV, 



XL VI, 

 XLVII. 



XLVIII 



>■ Shoulder Guns. 



—Flapper Shooting. 

 —Inland Duck Shooting. 

 —Sailing to Fowl. 



l Decoying to the Gun. 



— Decoying in America. 



— American Blinds. 



— American Canvas - back 

 Shooting. 



— Shore Shooting. 



,— Flighting. 



) Curious Wildfowl and Sea- 



j fowl Shooting Expedients. 



.—Close Time and Wildfowl 

 and Sea-fowl Acts. 



.— " Wildfowler's" Table of 

 Loads. 



— Nettmg Plovers and Snipe 

 Snaring. 



— Snaring and Hooking Sea- 

 fowl on the Continent. 



— Decojing into the " Pipes." 



— Flight Ponds and Rock 

 Fowling. 



— Concluding Eemarks. 



OPINIONS OF THE PEESS. 



" An excellent work indeed, and full of capital illustrations, is ' Modern Wild- 

 fowling; ' to recommend it aright I should have, if I were clever enough, and it did 

 not already exist, to invent the famous phrase, 'a book no gentleman's library 

 should be without.' "—Truth, March 17, 1881. 



" This book deals not only with the various modes of approaching or decoying, 

 and kiUing wildfowl of all kinds, but enters into minute details upon the construc- 

 tion of punts, both single and double handed; sails; punt guns, muzzle-loading as 

 well as breechloading; recoil apparatus; and shoulder guns of all patterns, with 

 the varying loads required for different bores. In addition to this are several 

 chapters devoted to a narration of the adventures of the author while in pursuit of 



wildfowl, both at home and abroad— which are very pleasant reading 



"With the addition of a good index, sportsmen will have in this work a capital vade 

 mecum on the art of wildfowUng.— T'/ie Zoologist for November, 1880. 



"THE field" OFFICE, 346, STRAND, W.C. 



