482 



INDEX. 



Black Head, or Scaup Duck, 298 



habits, 298 



description, 298, 299 

 Blain — 



his directions for j)olisliing gua- 

 barrels, 379 



remarks on Spanish barrels, 427 

 Blow- 

 treatment of, 474 

 Boating Ducks, 264 

 Boots, shooting, 367 



how made, 367, 368, 369 



laced boots, 3G9 



boots for Snipe shooting, 369, 370 



dressing for, 370 



receipts for making dressings, 371, 

 372, 373 

 Boswell — 



extract on eating, 434 

 Bowles — 



his account of the feeding of Wood- 

 cocks, 101 

 Brant or Brent, 316 



same as Barnacle Goose, 310 



habits, 316 



where found, 316 



description of, 317 



terms applicable to, 42 

 Box ; see Battery, 267 

 Brewei' — 



observations on the Ventriloquism 

 of Rails, 207 

 Brown, Captain — 



work on Taxidermy, 460 

 Bryan, George H. — 



his Rail captured at sea, 206 

 Buffel-IIeaded Duck, 303 



Butter Ball, 303 



habits, 303 



description, &c. 304 

 Buffon— 



statement respecting V/hite Par- 

 tridges, 81 



his observations on the AVild Tur- 

 key, 129 

 Burn — N 



treatment of, 477. 



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Canvass-Back, 252 



highly prized, 253 



Wilson's regard for them, 252, 258 



known only in America, 253 



description of, 253 



weight of, 254 



natural history of, 254 



migrations, 255 



habits, 256 



Canvass-Back — continved. 



fondness for water celery, 255, 250, 



257 

 shyness, 258 

 iiiodes of taking, 258 

 toling, 259, 2G0, 261, 262, 263, 264 

 boating, 264 



shooting from Dug-outs, 266 

 . surface boat, 267 

 coffin boat, 267 

 Battery, 267 

 Sink, 267 

 Box, 267 

 when used, 267 

 their construction, 267 

 great numbers of Ducks killed, 268 

 INIr. Levy kills great numbers of, 



269 

 how to shoot from a Battei-y, 269 

 description of, 270 

 directions for building a Battery, 



270 to 275 

 ambush on the flats, 275 

 how constructed, 275, 276 

 stooling oiT points, 276, 277 

 ingenious plan in calm weather, 



277, 278 

 holes in the ice, 279 

 point shooting, 279, 280, 281 

 bar shooting, 280 

 a trick on the author, 281 

 art of shooting V/ild-Fowl, 282, 



283 

 further instructions, 284, 285 

 to shoot Ducks setting, 285, 286 

 Wilson's beautiful description of 



Duck shooting, 287 

 Cannon — 



their first introduction, 406 

 Caps, Percussion, 354 



French and German, 354 

 English, 354 

 Walker's, 355 

 other particulars, 355 

 Charges for, 356 

 substitute for Caps, 350 

 Carolina — 



Snipe in, 182 

 Cartwright, Major — 



his experiments to ascertain the 



velocity of flight of Wild Ducks, 



249, 250 

 Cartridges, 357 



extensively used, 357 

 how matle, 358, 359 

 their superiority, 359 

 used in Pigeon shooting, 360 

 in Wild-Fowl shooting, 360 

 Eley's patent wire, 360 



