INDEX 



ABBOTT, quoted, 269 



Aleutian sandpiper, 380 



Allen's ptarmigan, 353 



American avocet, 316, 317, 373 



American coot, 383 



American eider duck, 202, 366 



American golden plover, 307, 308-313, 



378 



American merganser, 241, 242, 363 

 American oyster catcher, 382 

 American scoter duck, 200, 201, 366 

 American woodcock, 248-267, 372 

 Atwater's prairie-hen, 349 

 Avocets, 316 



BACHE, MR. RENE, 356 



Baird's sandpiper, 375 



Baldpate, 369 



Band-tailed pigeon, 336, 345, 387 



Bartramian sandpiper, 283, 371 ; shoot- 

 ing, 284-286 



Bay bird shooting, 287-293 ; blinds, 

 288 ; decoys, 288 ; guns and cos- 

 tume, 292 



Bay-birds, 248, 249 



" Bay coot," 200 



Bay snipe, 248 



Beach robin, 296 



Beagles, 18 



Bean goose, 153 



Belted piper, 315 



Belted piping plover, 377 



Big black-head duck, 186 



Big blue-bill duck, 186 



Big broad-bill duck, 186 



Big-headed snipe, 267 



Black-bellied plover, 307, 313, 314, 378 



Black-bellied sandpiper, 297 



Black-bellied tree-duck, 160, 360 

 Black brant, 158, 159, 359 

 Black-breasted Bob-white, 108 

 Black-duck, 220-222 j night shooting. 



222, 223 



Black-grouse, ico 

 Black-head duck, 186, 361 

 Black-headed Bob-white, 108 

 Black-mallard, 220, 221, 222 

 Black-necked stilt, 316, 318, 372 

 Black oyster catcher, 382 

 Black rail, 383 

 Black-tailed godwit, 298 

 Black turnstone, 379 

 Blinds, 288 



Blue-bill duck, 186, 361 

 Blue goose, 154, 360 

 Blue-grouse, 96, 351 ; tameness, 97, 



98 ; disappearance in winter, 99 ; 



guns and shot for shooting, 99 

 Blue-headed quail dove, 387 

 Blue-winged teal, 225, 226, 232, 367 

 Bob- whites, 107, 109, 356 

 Bobolink, 388 

 Bogardus, quoted, 278 

 Boobies, 196 

 Brant, 158, 159, 359 

 Brant-goose, 158, 359 

 Broad-bill duck, 186 

 Brooks, Allan, quoted, 193 

 Brown crane, 323 

 Buff-breasted sandpiper, 376 

 Buff-breasted sheldrake, 242 

 Buffle-head duck, 193, 362 ; shooting, 



194 



Bull-head, 308 



Burroughs, John, quoted^ IOO 

 Butter-bal] duck, 363 



391 



