INDEX. 



549 



Partridge, before leaving their roost, 156. 



seldom roost in same place, 156. 



during snow, 157. 

 Partridges, shooting in Delaware, 1 57. 



in Virginia, 158. 



season of 1851 and '52, 158. 



numbers in vicinity of Keokuk, 158. 



numbers taken in nets, 158, 



Phillips, Clem. T., kills sixty-one, 159. 



good shooting, 160. 



Frank Forrester's opinion of difficulty 

 of killing American, 160. 



taking the field, 160. 



bow to act when hunting, 163. 



wounded birds, 167. 



most difficult of all birds to shoot, 168. 



frequently give forth no scent, 168. 



to split and broil, 501. 

 Pectus, the breast, 28. 

 Pennet's, Mr., account of shooting geese, 



376. 



Perdix Virginianus, 114. (See PARTRIDGE.) 

 Pharaohs, snipe in the country of the, 240. 

 Pheasant, or ruffed grouse, 189. 

 Philadelphia, game hawked about, 140. 



contrary to municipal ordinances, 140. 

 Phillips, Clem. T., kills sixty-one birds, 



159. 

 Pigeon, killing with a rifle, 98. 



exploits in shooting, 99. 

 Pike, celebrated rail-pusher, 273. 

 Plover, golden Charadrius pluviales, 296. 



habits, food, 296. 



how best killed, 297. 



description, 297. 

 Plover, black-bellied, 294. 



bull or beetle-headed, 295. 



grass or field, 297. 



piping, 297. 



terms applicable to, 33. 

 Pointer, description of, 50. (See DOG.) 

 Pointing instinct in dogs, 38. 

 Poking shot not to be admired, 109. 

 Porter's, William T., account of squirrels, 



406. 



Potatoes a la maitre d'hotel, 510. 

 Pot-hunter, a despicable fellow, 134. 



how to act in company with a, 135. 

 Potterer, or poking-shot, 99. 

 Powder, different brands of, 471. 



efforts to remedy its present objection- 

 able qualities, 471. 

 Powder-prover, 438. 

 Powers, N., of Iowa, load of game connected 



by, 111. 



Prairie-chicken, 202. (See GROUSE.) 

 Prescott refers to the wild turkey in his 



" Conquest of Mexico," 184. 

 Primaries, large quill-feathers, 26. 



their position and use, 26. 



peculiarly constructed in the hawk, 



26. 

 Pugh, English artist, anecdote of, 133. 



Quadrupeds, change of pelage in, 30. 

 Quail not a partridge, 128. 



different in habits, 128. 

 in flesh, 128. 



is polygamous, 128. 



a migratory bird, 128. 



trail at night, 129. 



employed in combat, 129. 



not esteemed as food, 129. 



assemble in innumerable bodies, 137. 



killed in immense numbers, 137. 



people surfeited with, 137. 

 Quail snipe, 302. 



R. 



Rabbit, gray, 385. (See HARE.) 

 Rail or sora, Rallus Carolinus, 263. 



description, nomenclature, 263. 



history, etc., 264. 



singular characteristics, 267. 



their food and resorts, 268. 



shooting, 270. 



paraphernalia for shooting, 273. 



pushers for shooting, 273. 



tides, 274. 



numbers killed, 276. 



shooting in Virginia, 277. 



fire-shooting, 277. 



netting, 278. 



fish prey upon, 278. 



where to shoot, 278. 



expense of shooting, 279. 



terms applicable to, 34. 



cooking, 504. 



vent-feathers large in the, 27. 

 Rallus crepitans, clapper-rail or mud-hen, 

 283. 



nomenclature and locality, 283. 



period of incubation, 284. 



where killed, 285. 

 Rallus elegans, great red-breasted rail, 281. 



king-rail, fresh-water marsh-hen, 281. 



description, 281. 



history, habits, and haunts, 282. 

 Raspail, Monsieur, theory of serpent-charm- 

 ing, 122. 



Rattlesnake, curious experiments with, 121. 

 Red-headed duck, 354. 



red-head, 354. 



Anas ferina, 354. 



habits and haunts, 354. 



red-headed widgeon of England, 354. 

 Reed-bird, rice-bunting, 256. 



Emberiza oryzivora, 256. 



history and nomenclature, 256. 



description, 257. 



migrations, their feeding-grounds, 257. 



shooting, 258. 



netting, 259. 



compared with ortolan of Europe, 259, 



anecdote, 259. 



progress south, 260 



