INDEX. 



551 



Snipe, Soolopax gallinago, 240. 



Wilson's snipe, 240. 



English snipe, 240. 



widely disseminated, 240. 



varieties, 241. 



why called Wilson's snipe, 241. 



resembles the English variety, 241. 



description, 242. 



location and food, 243. 



incubation, young brood, 245. 



return to the South, 245. 



restless spirit, 246. 



perception of cold, 246. 



voracious feeders, 246. 



seldom found in the woods, 247. 



difficult to shoot, 247. 



shooting anecdote, 250. 



during rainy weather, 252. 



dogs for hunting, 252. 



fly against the wind, 253. 



advantages of shooting, 254. 



white or pied, 254. 



cooking, 502. 

 Snipe, red-breasted, 302. 



Scolopax noveboraoensis, 302. 



quail snipe, 302. 



habits and haunts, 302. 



flesh and food, 302. 



how and when killed, 302. 



description, 303. 

 Snow, heavy fall of, 139. 



its fearful consequences, 140. 

 Sora, 263. (See RAIL.) 

 Sore throat, how to treat a, 538. 

 Spain, introduction of wild turkey from, 

 183. 



gun-barrels imported from, 477. 

 Spaniel, description of, 52. (See DOG.) 



terms applicable to, 32. 



verses in memory of a, 238. 

 Sporting, terms used in, 32. 



general ignorance of these terms, 32. 



easily acquired, 32. 



writers on, 32. 



Sportsman's beef, how made, 511 

 Sportsmen should be careful of birds in 

 winter, 117. 



hints to, 135. 



practical observations for, 136. 



should keep cool, 153. 



during rainy weather, 153. 



should not be too eager, 155. 



should refresh themselves, 156. 



directions for, to hunt dogs, 156. 



should flush the game, 156. 

 Sprain, how to be treated, 534. 

 Sprigtail, 370. 



pintail, 370. 



Anas acuta, 370. 



handsome duck, 370. 



habits and haunts, 370. 



abundant in England, 370. 



description, 370. 

 Squirrels, 396. 



Squirrels, varieties, habits, locality, 397. 



general characteristics, 397. 



activity and strength, 399. 



captivity of, 400. 



other characteristics, 401. 



enemies of shooting, 402. 



barking, flesh of, 403. 

 Squirrel, gray, 404. 



migratory, 404. 



dimensions, locality, 404. 



habits and migrations, 404. 



cooking, 514. 

 Staley, Andrew, shooting in company with, 



176. 

 Stirley, John, white snipe in possession of, 



254. 

 Stock, gun, shape of, 429. 



various styles of, 430. 

 Stockings, shooting, 425. 

 Stockton, H. H., remarkable partridge shot 



by, 132. 



Stockton, Commodore, experiments on 

 bursting of guns, 444. 



recoil of guns, 444, 450. 

 St. Ildephonso, woodcocks feeding in aviary 



of, 219. 



St. Lawrence River, reed-birds on, 257. 

 St. Louis, game shipped from, 158. 

 St. Petersburg, frozen markets, 497. 

 Stone-curlew, 299. (See WILLKT.) 

 Summer duck, 372. 



Anas sponsa, 372. 



wood-duck, 372. 



beautiful fowl, 372. 



delights in the small streams, 372. 



description, 373. 



Surface-boat, 329. (See BATTERY.) 

 Swallows, the primary feathers in, 26. 



shooting, a mere knack, 98. 

 Swan, American, 383. 



Cygnus Americana, 383. 

 Swan, trumpeter, 383. 



Cygnus bucinator, 383. 



habits, haunts, 383. 



easily domesticated, 384. 

 Swans, a whiteness of, 34. 

 Sweden, snipes in, 241. 



T. 



Tapahannock marshes, partridges shot on, 



126. 



Tarsi, shanks of the legs, 27. 

 Taxidermy, art of preserving and mount" 

 ing birds, 514. 



directions for skinning birds, 515. 



Lee, Mrs., work on, 518. 



Brown, Captain, work on, 518. 



preserving egg-shells, 519. 

 Teal, blue-winged, 363. 



Anas discors, 363. 



habits and haunts, 363. 



their food, 364. 



how best cooked, 364. 



