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INDEX. 



Teal, description, 364. 

 Teal, green-winged, 365. 



Anas crecca, 365. 



habits and characteristics, 365. 

 Telltale snipe, 304. 



godwit, 304. 



greater yellow-shanks, 304. 



Scolopax vociferus, 304. 

 Tennessee, ruffed grouse in barrens of, 189. 



pinnated grouse in barrens of, 189. 

 Tertiary, third quill-feathers, 26. 



their position and character, 26. 

 Tetrao uinbellus, 189. 



cupido, 202. 



Canadensis, 210. 



saliceti, 210. 



Tezcucan monarchs, consumed large num- 

 bers of turkeys, 184. 

 Thorpe, T. B., woodcock fire-hunting by, 



Tibia, thigh-bone, 27. 

 Toomer, Richard and Edward, their won- 

 derful exploits with gun and rifle, 98. 

 Turkey, wild, 172. 



Meleagris gallipavo, 172. 



description, 173. 



natural history of, 175. 



in former times, 175. 



their near extinction, 175. 



found in Virginia, 176. 



found in other States, 176. 



Dr. Sargent's remarks on, 176. 



neighborhood of Natchez, 177. 



incubation, 177. 



very salacious,their conflicts, 177. 



Audubon's comments, 177. 



preparing the nest, 178. 



Dr. Sargent's remarks, 178. 



the action of the hen, 178. 



conceal their eggs, 178. 



number of eggs, 179. 



young brood, 179. 



their future life, 180. 



but one brood, 180. 



condition of the males, 180. 



food of the, 180. 



their introduction into Spain, 183. 



their introduction into England, 183. 



why called turkey, 183. 



a valuable fowl, 183. 



Buffon on the origin, 184. 



referred to by Prescott, 184. 



domesticated by the Aztecs, 184. 



consumed by the Tezcucan monarchs, 

 184. 



trapping, 184. 



shooting, 185. 



good dog for hunting, 186. 



run with amazing celerity, 186. 



easily killed, 186. 



when roosting, 186. 



Dr. Sargent's remarks, 186. 



decoying, 186. 



enemies of, 187. 



Turks, a band of pirates, 182. 



tufts of hair worn by the, 183. 



U. 



Ude, Louis Eustache, on the pleasures of 



the table, 495. 

 Uffano, remarks on the use of gunpowder, 



455. 



V. 



Valisineria Americana, 317. 



Venison soup, how made, 511. 



Viellot, statement of, respecting the habit 



of woodcocks carrying their young on 



their back, 221. 

 Virginia, partridge-shooting in, 158. 



wild turkey in, 176. 

 Vitellius, feast given by, 496. 

 Vitney, king of China, uses cannon, 456. 



W. 



Wadding or wads, various kinds, 411. 

 Walton, Sir Isaac, followers of, 372. 

 West Indies, reed-bird in, 260. 



snipe in, 240. 



Western Hemisphere, wild turkey indige- 

 nous to, 182. 



Wetherill, George D., partridges presented 

 by, 122. 



large bird shot by, 126. 



large woodcock in possession of, 215. 

 Wheel-lock goune invented, 458. 

 Whewer, whim, or widgeon of England, 



358. 

 Whimbrel, Scolopax phaepus of England, 



290. 

 Whistling plover, Charadrius apricarius, 



294. 



White thickening, 509. 

 Widgeon, Anas Americana, 357. 



bald-pates, 357. 



companion of the canvas-back, 357. 



not inferior in flavor, 357. 



locality, 357. 



description, 358. 



resembles the English widgeon, 358. 



how pursued in England, 359. 



easily domesticated, 359. 



at the North and South, 359. 

 Wild celery, food of the canvas-back, 316. 

 Wild drake, 360. (See MALLARD.) 

 Wild-fowl, peculiar construction of the 

 rump feathers of, 27. 



terms applicable to, 34. 



a flock of, a couple of, 34. 



a team of, a badelynge of, 34. 



present and future numbers of, on 

 Chesapeake Bay, 351. 



cooking, 506. 



Wild-fowl shooting, how pursued in Amer- 

 ica, 305. 



no child's -sport, 305. 



