A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS 



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MODERN WILDFOWLING. 



BY 



LEWIS CLEMENT, 



" WlLDFOWLER." 



CONTENTS. 



PUNTING. Introduction. 



I.) Muzzle-loading Punt Guns 

 II.)- (Flint, Percussion and Copper 

 III.) Tube Ignition. 

 IV.) 



V.S-BreechloadingPunt Guns. 

 VI.) 



VII. Loading Punt Guns. 

 VIII. Aiming and Firing Punt Guns. 

 X. The Setting of Punt Guns. 

 XL Eecoil and After-recoil Appa- 

 ratuses. 

 XII. 

 XIII. 



XIV. 



Punts. 



XV. 

 XVI. 

 XVII. 



XVIII. Launching Punts and Canoes. 

 XIX. Punting Accessories. 



XXIII. 



XXIV.-My First Single-handed Punt- 



ing Trip. 



XXV.) Amateur and Professional 

 XXVI. f Puntsmen. 



XX VII. ^) 



XXVIII. Uhoulder Guns. 

 XXIX J 



XXX. Flapper Shooting. 

 XXXI. Inland Duck Shooting. 

 XXXII. Sailing to Fowl. 



XXXIV;} Decors to the Gun. 

 XXXVl Decoying in America. 

 XXXVI. American Blinds. 

 XXXVII. American Canvas - back 



Shooting. 



XXXVIII. Shore Shooting. 

 XXXIX. Flighting. 



XL.) Curious Wildfowl and Sea- 

 XLI. j fowl Shooting Expedients. 

 XLII. Close Time and Wildfowl 



and Sea-fowl Acts. 

 XLIIL "WildfowlerV 1 Table of 



Loads. 

 XLIV. Netting Plovers and Snipe 



Snaring. 



XLV. Snaring and Hooking Sea- 

 fowl on the Continent. 

 XLVI. Decoying into the " Pipes." 

 XLVII. Flight Ponds and Bock 



Fowling. 

 XL VIII. Concluding Remarks. 



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 



' se ' '* book no ^<^^ **** 



urn o puns, ot snge and double handed; sails; punt guns, muzzle-loading as 

 wellasbreechloading; recoil apparatus; and shoulder guns of all patterns, with 

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

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

 w-S^ 1 ' S- at h , me a ^ d abr ad-which are very pleasant reading 

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

 mecvm on the art of wildfowling.-Vte Zoologist for November 1880 



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