INDEX. 



543 



Cooking among tne Chinese, 494. 



comment? of Louis Eustache Ude, 495. 



to select game, and when to cook it, 

 496. 



frozen game, 497. 



to roast game, larded, broiled, 499. 



boiled game, and some other ways, 

 501. 



snipe,woodcock, plover, pheasants, 502. 



reed-birds, rail, and other kinds of 

 game, 504. 



wild fowl, 507. 



canvas-backs, 507. 



further remarks on, 508. 



brown thickening for, 510. 



potatoes a la maitre d'h&tel, 510. 



venison soup, 511. 



sportsman's beef, 511. 



hares, rabbits, or squirrels, 512. 

 Coolness and deliberation, necessity of, 96. 



importance of, 100. 



Copple, Daniel, white snipe killed by, 254. 

 Corns on the feet, how cured, 531. 

 Corona, crown of the head, 27. 

 Couple or brace, explanation of, 33. 

 Covert-shooting, rules for, 107. 

 Cross-shooting, or cross-shots, 104. 



rules for, 104. 



Curlew, Esquimaux or short-billed curlew, 

 287. 



Scolopax boreal is, 287. 



nomenclature and history, 287. 



migrations, food, 288. 



their flesh, and time to shoot them, 



289. 



Curlew, long-billed or sickle-bill, Numenius 

 longirostris, 291. 



habits and description, 291. 

 Cygnus Americana, 383. (See SWAN.) 



D. 



Damascus gun-barrels, 484. 

 Daniel, Kev. Wm. B., fecundity of the 

 English partridge referred to by, 

 118. 



several white partridges mentioned 

 by, 131. 



description of English pochard, 354. 



receipt for gun-ointment, 429. 

 Decoys, best kind, price of, 336. 

 Deer, abundant in Iowa, 111. 



great numbers destroyed, 139. 

 Delaware, game ordinances, 141. 



woodcock in, 216. 



good shooting, 157. 



snipes in, 246. 



willets frequent, 300. 



reed-birds on river, 258. 

 Diet and drink, effect of exercise on, 527. 



unadulterated water, 527. 



eat and drink with moderation, 527. 



avoid debauch and various liquors, 

 527. 



Diet and drink, avoid bad liquors ; how to 

 avoid, 528. 



water-drinkers, 528. 



Distances on the water very deceptive, 310. 

 Doe-bird, 293. 

 Dog, theories of origin, 35. 



in his relation to man, 36. 



divisions into breeds, 36. 



the pointing instinct, 38. 



the setter, 41. 



the pointer, 42, 50. 



the spaniel, 42, 52. 



the hound, 43, 54. 



the retriever, 43, 55. 



setter divisions, 44. 



the English setter, 44. 



the Irish setter, 48. 



the Gordon, or black-and-tan setter, 49. 



relative merits of the different breeds, 



58. 

 Dogs, terms applicable to, 32. 



the science of breeding, 60. 



"like produces like," 61. 



no absolutely perfect dog exists, 63. 



what to breed for, 64. 



how to breed, 68. 



defects and their correction, 69. 



uniformity, not " sortiness," 71. 



the science of breaking, 72. 



yard and field work, 73. 



force vs. coaxing, 74. 



yard breaking, 75. 



teaching control, 75. 



to obey the whistle, 76. 



stopping, 77. 



charging, 78. 



following at heel, 79. 



retrieving, 79. 



beating and quartering, 84. 



field breaking, 85. 



teaching the dog to point, 86. 



stanchness depends upon the first les- 

 sons, 87. 



chasing and breaking point, 87. 



under the gun, 88. 



backing, 89. 



false pointing, 90. 



general hints to breakers, 91. 



breaking old dogs, 92. 



wildness or lack of control, 92. 



chasing and shot-breaking, 93. 



biting birds, 93. 



patience and discretion necessary, 94. 



how to treat, 161. 



feed them yourself; reasons for, 162. 



how to enter, on the field, 163. 



proper manner to hunt, 163. 



half broken, young, and heedless, 163. 



good, young, and old, 164. 



timid, bold, 164. 



correction of, 165. 



never kick or shoot, 165. 



act of pointing in, second nature, 166. 



not to flush the game, 166. 



