CHAPTER V. 

 THE USE OF THE DOG IN SHOOTING. 



3ROUSE AND PARTRIDGE (QUAIL) SHOOTING. SNIPE AND WOODCOCK 

 SHOOTING. WILD-FOWL SHOOTING. SHOAL-WATER FOWL. DEEP- 

 WATER FOWL. HARE HUNTING. DEER HUNTING. 



The dogs used in aid of the gun are: the pointer, the setter, in 

 grouse and quail shooting ; the spaniel, the beagle, and terrier in 

 covert or timber shooting ; either of the above in snipe and wood- 

 cock shooting ; the water spaniel or retriever in wild fowl shoot- 

 ing ; and the hound or dachshund in deer shooting. 



GROUSE AND PARTRIDGE (QUAIL) SHOOTING. 



North America is exceeded by no other country in the world in 

 the number and varieties of its game birds, and among these the 

 grouse of different species and the true partridge the so-called 

 quail furnish more recreation to the sportsmen and more food for 

 domestic uses, than any other of our birds. Curiously the partridge, 

 so-called in common parlance, is not the true one, but belongs to 

 the grouse family, of which we have ten species, the ruffed grouse, 

 (I'etrao umbellus), the prairie hen, (Tetrao cupido\ the sprnce 

 grouse (Tetrao Oanadensis) of the East and West, and the dusky 

 grouse (Tetrao obscurus) of the Pacific Coast, being the most com- 

 monly known of these birds. The true partridge, of which we 

 have at least seven species, are commonly called quail. The best 

 known species is the Virginia partridge, (Ortyx Virginianus}, 

 whose cry, at the brooding season, so nearly like " bob-white," with 

 a slowly drawn lengthening of the first syllable and a quick sharply 

 accented rising inflection of the latter one is so well known to 

 every rural dweller. 

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