INDEX. 



547 



Iowa, wolves, 111. 

 bears, 111. 

 great numbers of partridges killed in, 



137. 

 great numbers of partridges netted in, 



137. 



Ireland, woodcock in, 236. 

 Iris irides of birds, 27. 

 Italia, her coasts devastated, 182. 



J. 



Jack-frost nips vegetation, 110. 



Jack curlew, 293. 



Jamaica, reed-birds in, 260. 



Japan, snipes in, 240. 



Jersey, ruffed grouse in pines of, 189. 



Johnson, Dr., remarks on cooking, 489. 



K. 



Ealmia clauca, 125. 



marsh laurel, 125. 



grouse and partridges feed on, 125. 



animals feed on, 126. 

 Ealmia latifolia, 125. 



mountain laurel, 125. 



grouse and partridges feed on, 125. 



animals feed on, 126. 



ruffed grouse feed on, 195. 



author's comments on, 196. 

 Keel-boatmen of America, 99. 



their exploits with the rifle, 99. 



snuffing the candle, 99. 



driving the nail, 99. 

 Kentucky, ruffed grouse in, 189. 



pinnated grouse in, 204. 

 Keokuk, numbers of partridges about, 158. 



cooped and sent to New Orleans, 158. 

 Kill-deer plover, 297. 

 Killing clean, importance of, 112. 



what distance in, 113. 



for humanity's sake, 113. 



verses in support of, 113. 

 King-snake, curious experiments, 122. 



their wonderful endowments, 123. 

 Kitchener, Dr., on the pleasures of the 



table, 495. 

 Knife, sporting, proper kind, 413. 



L. 



Lake Ontario, reed-birds about, 257. 

 Laurel, mountain, 125. (See KALHIA 



LATIFOLIA.) 



Laws, game, mere bagatelle, 224. 

 Leading of barrels, 426. 



how freed, 427. 

 Lee, Mrs., directions for mounting birds, 



515. 



her work on Taxidermy, 519. 

 Legislative enactments as to killing game, 

 141. 



Lepus cuniculus, 385. 



sylvaticus, 376. 



Lesser coverts, situation and character, 26. 

 Levy, W. W., celebrated duck-shooter, 331. 



his draft of a battery, 337. 

 Lewis, E., snipe's nest on his estate, 244. 

 Liquors, bad, to be avoided, 528. 

 Locks of a gun, 432. 



importance of good, 432. 



Greener's remarks on, 432. 

 Long-billed curlew, 292. 

 Long Island, pinnated grouse on, 205. 

 Loral space, 27. 

 Louisiana, pinnated grouse in, 204. 



reed-birds, 256. 

 Louis Eustache Ude, comments on cookery, 



495. 



Lynx, attack on wild turkeys, 187. 

 Lyon's, Captain, views on the ventriloquism 

 of the Arctic fox, 268. 



M. 



Magnus Apollo, Colonel Hawker the, 359. 

 Magnus coquus of the ancients, 492. 

 Maine, grouse met with in, 210. 

 Mallard or wild drake, 360. 



Anas boschus, habits and haunts, 360. 



parent stock of tame duck, 360. 



description, 361. 



in the rice-fields, 362. 



on the Delaware, 362. 



in England, 362. 



decoy-ponds for netting, 362. 

 Malta, falcon captured at, 312. 

 Mandibles, upper and lower, 27. 

 Markets in reign of Queen Elizabeth, 460. 

 Martha's Vineyard, pinnated grouse on, 



205. 



Massachusetts, grouse found in, 2] 0. 

 Maxillae, superior and inferior, 27. 

 Mayo, Dr., remarks on cooking, 489. 

 Measurement of birds, 28. 

 Mediterranean, Turkish cruisers in, 182. 

 Meleagris gallopavo, wild turkey, 172. 

 Mentum, the chin, 28. 

 Mexicans, wild turkey domesticated by the, 



184. 

 Migrations of partridges, 129. 



causes of their, 130. 



singular actions during their, 130. 

 Millochau, Adolphe, gun-oil of, 428. 

 Mississippi River, ruffed grouse on the 



ranges of the, 189. 

 Moon, effects on the tides, 274. 



rails feed at the full of the, 274. 

 Mordecai, Captain, 31. 



experiments and observations on pow- 

 der, 440. 



Moscow, frozen markets of, 497. 

 Moulting of birds, 30. 



wise provision of nature, 30. 



change in the plumage, 30. 



protection from enemies, 30. 



