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INDEX. 



Dogs — continued. 



to make Dogs show to advantage, 

 02, 03 



Partridges best to break Dogs on, 

 91 



can't find Tartridges at times, 91 

 to 95 



ready for the field, 105 



feed your, 100 



mode to hunt, 108, 109 



various disposition of, 109 



the correction of, 109, 110 



taught to retrieve. 111 



further remarks on Retrievers, 112, 

 118, lU 



English compared with American, 

 115 



for AVoodcock sliooting, 177, 178 



epitaph on a, 179 



tuition of Spaniels, 179 



for Snipe shooting, 192 , 



accidental death of a, 193 



neglected water Dog, 248 



used in Toling, 259, 200 



to tell the age of a, 479 

 Domery, Charles — 



his ravenous appetite, 438, 439 

 Dressing for boots, 370 



vai'ious receipts, 370, 371, 372, 373 

 Di-iving Partridges, 88 



as practised in the South, 88, 89 

 Dag-outs — 



shooting from, 200 

 ' how constructed, 200 

 Dusking 



as applied to Wild Fowl shooting, 

 305 



Edward III.— 



Cannon first employed by, 400 



Eggs, Birds' — 



preserving the shells, 460, 401 



Egypt- 

 Snipe in, 181 



Eley's 



patent cartridges, 360 



Elizabeth, Queen — 



her improvements in Cannon, 400 



Elk River- 

 ambush on the flats of, 275 

 points for Duck shooting on, 280 



English Author — 



observations on the feeding of Wood- 

 cocks by an, 102 

 comments on Snipe shooting by an, 

 188 



English Curlew, 281 



Esquimaux Curlew, 226 



Eye- 

 wounded, 477 

 treatment of wounded, 477, 478 



Eyre, J. M.— 



exploits in Rail shooting, 216 



Fall, treatment of, 474 

 Feathers — 



description of the various, 33 to 35 



the tail, 35 



their action, 35 



sensation in, 36 



in noctui'nal Birds, 36 



moulting of, 36 



changes in color, 37 

 Field Plovers, 228 



Fire Hunting of Woodcocks, 175, 170 

 Flight- 

 Birds of rapid, 34 



of the Partridge, 80, 81 



Major Cartwright's experiments on, 

 249 



Henry IV. of France, his Falcons, 

 250 

 Folly Island — 



numbers of Curlew on, 230 

 Forrester, Frank — 



remarks on Woodcock, 164 



on the cry of the Snipe, 183 

 Fowler, an English writer — 



opinion of American Sporting, 02 



how unjust, 02 

 Frederick the Great — 



required little sleep, 470 

 Frost Birds, 237 

 Furtica Chlorophus, 222 



G 



Galveston Bay — 



Canvass Backs on, 257 

 Game — 



pi-edictions regarding, 98 



Carrying, 304 

 Gauge — 



Powder, 301 



Shot, 361 

 Giraud — 



description of the King Rail, 220 



statement regarding Lons-Billcd 

 Curlew, 230 

 Gloves — 



use of gloves when shooting, 343 



kind to use, 344 

 Godman — 



the migration of Squirrels, 340 



the habits of the Hare, 325 



