INDEX. 



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Clerks 01 the market blind as bats, 92. 

 Club-houses encourage killing of game 



out of season, 92. 

 Coat, made of fustian, 385. 



made of woollen cloth, 385. 

 Cocking the gun, 364. 

 Cock, part of the machinery of a gun, 



377. 



Coffin-boat, description of, 283. 

 Columbia River, Ruffed Grouse on the 



ranges of, 143. 

 Pinnated Grouse abun- 

 dant about, 159. 



Columbia migratoria Wild Pigeon, 265. 

 Collum, the neck, 36. 

 Conquest of Mexico Wild Turkey men- 

 tioned by Prescott, 138. 

 Constantinople British cruisers visited, 



137. 

 Coolness and deliberation, necessity of, 



48. 



importance of, 52. 

 Cooking, art of game, 458. 



"God sends meat, who" 458. 

 Rumford's philosophic remarks 



on, 458. 



Mayo's, Dr., remarks on, 459. 

 importance of good, 460. 

 authors' views and sentiments, 



459. 

 Johnson's, Dr., comments on, 



459. 



further comments on the im- 

 portance of good, 460. 

 authors' remarks on, 461. 

 Accum's remarks on, 463. 

 among the Romans, 464. 

 among the Chinese, 464. 

 comments of Louis Eustache 



tide, 465. 

 to select game, and when to 



cook it, 466. 

 frozen game, 467. 

 to roast game, larded, broiled, 



469. 

 boiled game, and some other 



ways, 471. 



Snipe, Woodcock, Plover, Phea- 

 sants, 472. 

 Reed-Birds, Rail, and other 



kinds of game, 474. 

 Wild Fowl, 477. 

 Canvas-backs, 477. 

 further remarks on, 478. 

 brown thickening for, 480. 

 potatoes a la maitre d'hotel, 480. 

 Venison soup, 481. 

 Sportsman's Beef, 481. 

 Hares, Rabbits, or Squirrels, 



482. 

 Copple, Daniel, white Snipe killed by, 208. 



Corns on the feet, how cured, 501. 

 Corona crown of the head, 35. 

 Couple or Brace, explanation of, 41. 

 Covert-shooting, rules for, 59. 

 Cross-shooting, or cross-shots, 56. 



rules for, 56. 



Curlew, Esquimaux or Short-billed Cur- 

 lew, 241. 



Scolopax Borealis, 241. 



nomenclature and history, 241. 



migrations, food, 242. 



their flesh, and time to shoot 



them, 243. 

 Curlew, Long-billed or Sickle-bill 



Numenius Longirostris, 245. 



habits and description, 245. 

 Cygnus Americana, (see Swan,) 337. 



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fecundity of the English Par- 

 tridge referred to by, 70. 

 several white Partidges men- 

 tioned by, 83. 

 description of English Pochard, 



308. 



receipt for gun-ointment, 400. 

 Damascus gun-barrels, 454. 

 Decoys, best kind, price of, 290. 

 Deer, abundant in Iowa, 63. 



great numbers destroyed, 91. 

 Delaware game ordinances, 93. 

 Woodcock in, 170. 

 good shooting, 109. 

 Snipes in, 200. 

 Willet's frequent, 254. 

 Reed-Birds on river, 212. 

 Diet and Drink 



effect of exercise on, 497. 

 unadulterated water, 497. 

 eat and drink with moderation. 



497. 

 avoid debauch and various liquors, 



497. 

 avoid bad liquors ; how to avoid, 



498. 



water-drinkers, 498. 

 Distances on the water very deceptive, 



264. 



Doe-bird, 247. 

 Dogs, terms applicable to, 40. 



Youatt on the, best work on, 43. 

 type of all that is noble, 44. 

 fidelity of, 44. 



disinterested attachment of, 44. 

 exalted above all other animals, 45, 

 their social position, 45. 

 the associate of man, 45. 

 guardian of his flocks, 45. 

 forgiving spirit, 45. 



