XXIV CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XYII. 



PAG E 



Long-billed Curlevr, or Sickle-bill — Larger than the preceding Vai'iety — 

 Habits — Locality — Numbers remain near Charleston — Description — Re- 

 sembles the English Curlew — Their Food — Very Shy — Easily decoyed — 

 How to Shoot them 230 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Black-bellied Plover — "Well known to Sportsmen — Pteturn from the South — 

 Stay at the Sea-coast — Where they Breed — Their Food — Old Field Plover 

 — Plumage of the Young Bird — Known as the Bull or Beetle-headed 

 Plover — ^Very shy — An excellent mode to approach them — The Species 

 known in England — Return to the South — Description . , . , 233 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Golden Plover — Plumage — Habits — Notes — Known as Frost Birds — Their 

 Food — Their Breeding Grounds — Description — Numerous Variety of 

 Plovers — Grass or Field Plover, &c. &c. 23G 



CHAPTER XX. 



Semipalmated Snipe, or AVillet — Snipe Species very numerous — None more 

 sought after — The Cry of the Willet — Not known in England — Return 

 from the South — Period of Nidification — Their Nests — Their Food — Their 

 Flesh — Their Call Note — How Shot — Description — Affection for their 

 Young 238 



CHAPTER XXI. 



Red-breasted Snipe — Plumage resembles the Common Snipe — AVhere found 

 — Immense Flocks — Known as the Brown Back, or Dowitcher — Less fishy 

 — Called Quail Snipe — Breeding Grounds — Their return — Less shy — Their 

 Food — Description — Other Varieties of Shore Birds — Yellow Shanks — 

 Tcll-Tale, or Godwit 241 



CHAPTER XXII. 



Wild Fowl Shooting — The state of this Amusement in America; in England 

 — Great abundance of Coast Game — The Sport confined to the ]\Larket 

 Shooters — New York Sportsmen — Philadelphia Amateurs — No child's play 

 — Some of the Hardships — The benefits to be derived — Essentials for the 

 Pui-suit of AVild Fowl — Chesapeake Bay; all Species of Wild Fowl resort 

 there — Their wonderful numbers — The Canvass-Back the great attraction 

 — The various Ducks that visit the Chesapeake — The Valisineria, or Water 

 Celery — Number of Shooters — Hints for Backers — Wild Fowl ever on the 

 alert — Sense of Smell — Distances on the Water — Velocity of Flight ; ex- 

 emplified in the Eider Duck; in the Wild Pigeon; in the Falcon . . 244 



