PREFACE 



O FULL AND COMPLETE 



zvork on American upland shooting 

 has as yet been written. Volumes 

 have been published, each of which 

 covers some section of what is really 

 a large subject, but from the broader sportsman's 

 viewpoint no one of them is complete. Of these works, 

 the most useful was written by the veteran naturalist 

 and sportsman, D. G. Elliott, whose "Game Birds of 

 North America" deals chiefly with the natural history 

 side of the grouse and quails, and touches only lightly 

 on the methods by which they are pursued for sport. 

 It seems time now that a book should be written, 

 covering the ^vhole subject of upland American game- 

 bird shooting; that is, the shooting of those birds in 

 which the pointing dog is the assistant to the gun 

 the turkeys, grouse and quail, and the American wood- 

 cock and Wilson's snipe, called also "English" and 

 "jack" snipe, a bird of continental distribution. 

 Some years ago I brought together a large amount 



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