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INDEX. 



Breech-loading guns, not a purely modern 



invention, 462. 

 early defects of, 462. 

 hammerless guns, 463. 

 boring for shooting qualities, 464. 

 choke-boring, 464, 465. 

 English and American guns, 465. 

 machine- and hand-made guns, 467. 

 the cost of a good gun, 468. 

 the best gun for general use, 470. 

 Breeding dogs, the science of. (See BOGS.) 

 Brewer, observation on the ventriloquism 



of rails, 267. 

 Brown, Captain, his work on Taxidermy, 



518. 



Brown thickening for game, 570. 

 Bryan, George H., a rail captured at sea, 



267. 



Buffaloes, great numbers destroyed, 139. 

 Buffel-headed duck, butter-ball, 366. 

 Anas albeola, 366. 

 habits, haunts, and description, 367. 

 Buffon, opinion as to the origin of the 



wild turkey, 184. 

 statement respecting white partridges, 



132. 



Bull or beetle-head, 295. (See PLOVER.) 

 Burlington, Iowa, 137. 



large numbers of partridges netted in 



neighborhood of, 137. 

 Burn, how to be treated, 536. 

 Bursting of guns, 444. 

 Bush River, toling ducks on, 324. 

 Butter-ball, 366. (See BUFFEL-HEADED 

 DUCK.) 



C. 



Canada goose, 375. (See Goose.) 



grouse, 210. 



grouse met with in, 210. 

 Canard cheval, 318. 

 Cannon, antiquity of, 458. 

 Canvas-back, 313. 



Anas valisineria, 313. 



their great repute, 313. 



testimony of Wilson as to their pecu- 

 liar delicacy, 314. 



Known only in America, 314. 



description, history, and habits, 314. 



their food and haunts, 316. 



shyness and modes of taking, 319. 



toling, boating, netting, 320. 



use of dug-outs, 327. 



batteries, surface-boats or sinks, 329. 



description of batteries, 332. 



decoys, 336. 



ambush on the flats, 338. 



shooting off points, 339. 



holes in the ice, 341. 



point and bar-shooting, 342. 



anecdote, 344. 



art of shooting, 345. 



verses descriptive of, 350. 



Cap, Napoleon, 414. 

 Carolina, reed-birds in, 260. 



snipe in, 240. 



Celery sauce, how made, 508. 

 Ceylon, snipes in, 240. 

 Chandler, M. T. W., observations on wood- 

 cocks, 216. 



observations on the haunts of wood- 

 cocks, 218. 



receipts for making water-proof dress- 

 ing for boots, 423. 



Charadrius apricarius, 294. (See BLACK- 

 BELLIED PLOVER.) 



Pluvialis, 296. (See GOLDEN PLOVER.) 

 Charles the First, small-arms in the reign 



of, 461. 



Charming birds, serpents, 120. 

 Chesapeake Bay, partridges caught on the 



shores of tho, 136. 

 as a resort of wild fowl, 308. 

 various kinds of ducks on, 308. 

 exciting times on, 309. 

 present and future numbers of wild 



fowl on, 351. 



China, gunpowder known in, 455. 

 Chinese, gunpowder known to, 455. 

 food of the, 494. 

 gunpowder used by the, 457. 

 Citizens encourage killing game out of 



season, 140. 

 should discountenance game suppers, 



141. 

 Clapper-rail, 283. (See RALLUS CREPI- 



TANS.) 



Clean guns, 415. 



Clerks of the market blind as bats, 140. 



Club-houses, encourage killing of game out 



of season, 140. 

 Coat, made of fustian, 414. 



made of woollen cloth, 414. 

 Cocking the gun, 410. 

 Coffin-boat, description of, 329. 

 Collum, the neck, 28. 



Columbia River, ruffed grouse on the 

 ranges of, 189. 



pinnated grouse abundant about, 205. 

 Columbia migratoria, wild pigeon, 311. 

 Conquest of Mexico, wild turkey men- 

 tioned by Prescott, 184. 

 Constantinople, British cruisers visited, 



183. 

 Cooking, art of, game, 488. 



" God sends meat, who," 488. 



Rumford's philosophic remarks on, 

 488. 



Mayo's, Dr., remarks on, 489. 



importance of good, 490. 



author's views and sentiments, 489. 



Johnson's, Dr., comments on, 489. 



further comments on the importance 

 of good, 490. 



author's remarks on, 491. 



Accum's remarks on, 493. 



among the-Romans, 494. 



