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INDEX. 



Reed-bird, curious facts, 261. 



as a cage-bird, 261. 



change of plumage, 262. 



terms applicable to, 34. 



cooking, 504. 

 Register, extract from a friend's shooting, 



160. 



Retriever, description of, 55. (See DOG.) 

 Rice-bunting, 256. (See REED-BIRD.) 

 Rifle, shooting with a, 98. 



exploits of the Toomers with, 98. 



killing pigeons with, 98. 



striking cricket-balls with, 98. 



exploits of our backwoodsmen with, 98. 



German jagers use, 99. 



killing squirrels with, 99. 

 wild turkeys with, 99. 



exploits of keel-boatmen with, 99. 



driving the nail with, 99. 



snuffing the candle with, 99. 



shooting apples from the head with, 99. 

 Ring-plover, 297. 



Rock Island, numbers of partridges on, 158. 

 Rocky Mountains, canvas-back on the 



streams of the, 316. 

 Romans, festive boards of the, 494. 

 Ruffed grouse, 189. (See GROUSE.) 

 Rumford, Count, comments on cooking, 



488. 



Rump, Bill, celebrated rail-pusher, 273. 

 Russia, snipe in, 241. 

 Rusting, to prevent, of barrels, 427. 



how to remove, 427. 



Sargent, Dr. R. Percy, observation on habits 



of wild turkey, 176. 

 further observation, 176. 

 Sauces or gravies, 509. 

 Savages, their gluttony, 493. 

 Scapulars, shoulder-feathers, 26. 

 Schwarz, Berthold, discoverer of gunpow- 

 der, 433. 

 invention of gunpowder attributed to, 



457. 



monument erected at Freiburg to, 458. 

 Scientia popinae, 492. 



Sciurus migratorius, 404. (See SQUIRREL.) 

 Season of 1855 and '56, particularly de- 

 structive to game, 139. 

 numbers of birds as well as animals 

 destroyed in consequence of the 

 snow during, 139. 



Secondaries, second quill-feathers, 26. 

 Serpents, conflicts with partridges, 120. 

 charming birds, 121. 

 popular fallacy, 121. 

 Dr. Gilman's experiments with, 121. 

 venomous, 121. 

 king, 121. 



Raspail's theory, 122. 

 Setter, description of, 44. (See DOG.) 

 Setters, early in the season, 161. 



Setters, suffer for want of water, 161. 

 Shells, American, equal to the imported, 

 472. 



paper vs. metal, 472. 



Shoemaker, Dr., cases of poisoning by eat- 

 ing grouse, 126. 



remedies used by, 126. 

 Shooting, art of, on the wing, 95. 



soon acquired, 95. 



first grand desideratum, 95. 



nicety in, 98. 



carried to great perfection, 98. 



exploits of Richard and Edward 

 Toomer, 98. 



particular instructions for, 100. 



when the bird should be killed, 101. 



in thickets, 102. 



be cool, when, 102. 



requires patience and practice, 102. 



when the bird is crossing, 106. 



too low, too high, 107. 



both eyes open, 108. 



in America different from that of Eng- 

 land, 110. 



Shore-birds, terms applicable to, 34. 

 Short, Dr., exploits among the snipe, 111. 

 Shot, soft and chilled, 472. 



sizes of, 472. 

 Siberia, snipe in, 240. 

 Sickle-bill, 291. (See CURLEW.) 

 Sink, 329. (See BATTERY.) 

 Skinner, J. S., comments on food of par- 

 tridges, 125. 



account of good shooting, 159. 



fanciful notion of the feeding of wood- 

 cocks, 218. 



comments on ambition of killing for 

 quantity, 229. 



reprobates this cruel ambition, 230. 

 Skipwith, Mr., captures sora rails at sea, 



266. 

 Sleep, how necessary, 529. 



should be moderate, 529. 



less sleep in warm weather, 529. 



some require more than others, 529. 



Napoleon required little, 529. 



Frederick the Great required little, 



529. 

 Smith, Dr., interesting letter of, 146. 



his views of partridges retaining scent, 

 146. 



subject fully discussed, 146. 

 Smyrna, British cruisers visited, 183. 

 Snap-shot, when most successful, 108. 



a disagreeable companion, 109. 



shooting with both eyes open, 109. 

 Snipe, terms applicable, 31. 



sudden and irregular flight of, 97. 



zigzag flight of the, 100. 



abundant on borders of Mud Creek, 

 101. 



white, 132. 

 Snipe, 240. 



Soolopax Wilsonii, 240. 



