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INDEX. 



Dogs, should find the dead bird, 167. 



should hunt up wounded or dead game, 

 167. 



how to hunt, 168. 



when, come to a point, 169. 



occasionally at fault, 1 69. 



accidental death of a, 253. 



to tell the age of, 539. 

 Domery, Charles, celebrated glutton, 494. 



his wonderful feats of eating, 494. 

 Down charge, 33. 

 Dubuque, immense load of game carried 



into, 111. 

 Ducks, art of shooting, 345. 



toling, 320. 



further instructions on shooting, 347. 

 Duck Island, experiments at, 311. 

 Duckers, hints for, 310. 

 Dug-outs, description of, 327. 

 Dun-birds of England, 354. 

 Dupont, gunpowder made by, 434. 



composition and superiority of, 434. 

 Dusking, as applied to wild-fowl shooting, 



369. 

 Dusky Duck, 368. (See BLACK DUCK.) 



E. 



East, wild turkey not a native of the, 182. 

 Eating-saloons encourage killing of game 



out of season, 140. 

 Edward III. uses gunpowder, 458. 



guns in the reign of, 460. 

 Eggs, eating partridge, 138. 



should be discountenanced, 139. 



preserving shells, 519. 

 Egypt, snipe in, 240. 

 Egyptian Hercules, 456. 

 Elizabeth Island, pinnated grouse on, 205. 

 Elizabeth, Queen, uses gunpowder, 458. 



guns in the reign of, 460. 

 Elk River, immense drove of partridges en- 

 countered in the neighborhood of, 

 129. 



their singular actions, 130. 

 England, efforts to introduce the American 

 partridge into, 144. 



woodcock-shooting in, 237. 



land-rail or corn-crake of, 263. 



water-crake or spotted rail of, 263. 

 Epicurus, followers of, 313. 

 Epreuvette, or powder-prover, 438. 

 Eye, pupil of the, 27. 



seldom wrong, 100. 



seldom at fault, 101. 



how to treat a wounded, 537. 

 Eyre, J. M., exploits in rail-shooting, 276. 



F. 



Feathers, rump or upper-tail coverts, 27. 

 their position, character, and use, 27. 

 stronger in proportion to the habits of 

 the bird, 27. 



Feathers, how formed in the woodpecker 

 tribe, 27. 



how formed in the water-fowl, 27. 



acts as a rudder, 27. 

 Feathers, vent or under-tail coverts, 27. 



their position and character, 27. 



longer on some birds than others, 27. 



how developed in the Rallus Caro- 



linus, 27. 

 Feathers, sensation in, 29. 



delicate impressions conveyed by, 29. 



nice organization of, in nocturnal 



birds, 29. 

 Feathers, shedding of, 30. 



accidents to, 30. 



moulting of, 30. 

 Field, taking the, 160. 



verses descriptive of the sports of the, 



160. 



Field or grass plover, 303. 

 Figure-of-4 trap, taking of partridges with 



a, 138. 



Flexure, bend of the wing, 27. 

 Flight, velocity of, 311. 



experiments to prove the velocity of, 



311. 

 Florida, snipes in, 243. 



canvas-backs in, 318. 

 Folly Island, numbers of curlew on, 291. 

 Fontainebleau, escape of a falcon from, 312. 

 Forrester, Frank, opinion on woodcocks, 

 221. 



observations on the note of the snipe, 



242. 

 Fowler, an English writer, 111. 



opinion of American sporting, 111. 



how unjust, 111. 



Fowler, a celebrated rail-pusher, 273. 

 France, gun-barrels imported from, 477. 

 Frederick the Great required little sleep, 



530. 



Freiburg, monument erected at, 458. 

 Frons, forehead, 27. 

 Frost birds, 296. 

 Frozen game, 497. 



G. 



Gaterie des Oiseaux, Viellot's, 221. 

 Gallinaceous order, noise made by the, 130. 

 Galveston Bay, canvas-backs in, 318. 

 Game of all descriptions abundant, 139. 



recklessly destroyed, 140. 



illegal traffic in, 140. 



ordinances against selling, 140. 



ordinances a dead letter, 140. 



hawkers of, 140. 



their disregard of ordinances, 140. 



predictions regarding, 152. 



probable abundance of, 152. 



probable scarcity of, 152. 

 Ganges, the river, 456. 

 Geese, terms applicable to, 34. 

 Georgia, ruffed grouse in, 189. 



