INDEX. 



493 



Teal — continued. 



resembles the English Teal, 301 



habits, description, 301, 302 

 Tell-tale Snipe, 243 

 Temmick — 



gives Wilson credit, 182 



notices the Willet in Europe, 238 

 Tetrao Cupido, 146 

 Thickening, brown — 



how made, 452 

 Thickening, white — 



how made, 452 

 Tides- 

 how regulated, 213 

 Thorpe, T. B.— 



description of fire-hunting of Wood- 

 cocks, 175, 176 

 Toling Ducks — 



how pursued on Chesapeake, 259 



description of, 259, 200, 201, 262, 

 263, 264 

 Toomer— 



Richard and Edward, 50 



wonderful exploits in shooting by, 

 50 

 Tooting — ■ 



of the Prairie Hen, 149 

 Tringa Bartramian, 237 

 Turkey, Wild— 



Meleagris Gallopavo — 



description by Audubon, 118, 119, 

 120 



natural history, 120 



localities, 121, 122 



Doctor Sargent's article on, 122 



incubation, 122, 123, 124, 125 



conflicts, 123 



food, 126 



migrations, 126 



domestication, 126 



why called Turkey, 127, 128 



some curious circumstances, 127, 

 128 



flesh, 129 



trapping, 129, 130 



shooting, 131 



enemies of the, 132 

 Tyanteus Appolonius — 



an ancient historian, 403 



U 



Uffano 



on the invention of Gunpowder, 403 



Valisineria Americana, 255 

 Venison soup — 

 how made, 453 



Viellot— 



account of the conveyance of the 

 young AVoodcock by their pa- 

 rents, 103 



Virginia — 



Wild Turkeys in, 121 

 Partridge shooting in, 103 

 a party going shooting in, 117 



Vitellus— 



extraordinary feast of, 438 



Vitney, King — 



inventor of Cannon, 403 



W 



Wadding — 



proper kinds, 346, 347 

 caution as to the use, 347, 348 

 felt, 349 

 paper, 349 



Walker- 

 Percussion Caps, 355 



Washer, or Washing Rod, 349, 350 



Wetherill, George D.— 



Partridges presented by, 72 

 remarkable large Birds shot by, 76 

 large Woodcock in possession of, 

 1'58 



Whimbrel, 229 



Whistling Plover, 233 



Widgeon, American, 293 

 Anas Americana, 293 

 Bald Pates, 293 



companion of the Canvass-Back, 293 

 not inferior in flavor to the Canvass- 

 Back, 293 

 localities, 293 

 description, 293, 294 

 resembles the English Widgeon, 294 

 how pursued in England, 294, 295 

 domesticated in England, 295 

 how decoyed, 295 



Willet— 



Scolopax Semipalmata, 238 



Semipalmated Snipe, 238 



Stone Curlew, 238 



habits, 238 



where found, 238 



not known in England, 238 



incubation, 238 



their food, 239 



their flesh, 239 



how shot, 239 



description, 239 



afl"ection for each other, 240 



Wild Fowl shooting — 



how followed in America, 244 

 New Yoi'k Sportsmen, 245 

 Philadelphia Sportsmen, 245 



