TABLE OF CONTENTS. XI 



work ; snap shooting ; summer woodcock ; how they fly ; how they alight ; 

 to mark them ; to shoot them; dry weather; wet weather; in corn; during 

 their moult. Summer migration 282-21)5 



GROUSE SHOOTING ON THE PEAIEIES. 



Six varieties of grouse the ruffed grouse; the Canada grouse; the willow 

 grouse ; the geographical range of these three. How to shoot the ruffed 

 grouse ; the Canada grouse and willow grouse rarely shot ; the pinnated 

 grouse or heath hen ; the sharp-tailed grouse. Range of the pinnated grouse ; 

 season for shooting ; size of shot ; shooting in August ; in September ; in 

 October ; pointers the best dogs ; why so ; best way to hunt ; proper gun ; 

 how they fly ; how to kill them ; great sport .... 296-305 



BIRDS NOT GAME. 



The upland plover or Bartram's sandpiper; where found; shooting them from 

 chaises at Newport; stalking them; poor sport. Rail shooting. The sora 

 rail ; where found ; when ; their habits ; their flight ; how to kill them ; the 

 proper gun; the proper charge; the landing net; reed birds; teal; galli- 

 nuleo ; anecdotes of shooting ; slaughter, not sport . . . 306-315 



AUTUMN SHOOTING. 



Quail; woodcock; ruffed grouse; large hare; smaller hare; morning shooting; 

 when to start; how to beat for quail; the best ground; the point; the 

 flush; single birds; the bevy; how and where to shoot; how to mark; 

 how they fly; where they will alight; retention of scent; lurking; after- 

 noon shooting; quail a fast flyer; rises behind. The ruffed grouse: his 

 whirr on rising ; autumn woodcock ; his different flight now; his autumn 

 lying grounds ; the smaller hare ; to hunt with beagle* ; habits of the hare ; 

 best grounds; how to get shots; where to hit him . . . 316-332 



WILD FOWL SHOOTING. 



In Chesapeake Bay. The swan ; the canvass-back ; the red head ; the scaup ; 

 the buffel-headed duck; the South-southerly; the ruddy duck; the wid- 

 geon : the teal ; English widgeon ; English teal ; J. C. Bell ; Chesapeake Bay 

 shooting ; from the points ; how fowl are missed ; the best guns ; allowance 

 to be made for speed of flight To tole wild fowl ; how to shoot on the 

 water ; paddling up to fowl ; proper powder ; size of shot ; goose shooting ; 

 from batteries ; unsportsmanlike; Squam Beach ; Barnegat; from boats in 

 hassock; over stools; calling fowl ; coots; inland duck shooting; the mal- 

 lard ; the pin-tail duck ; the green-winged teal ; the blue-winged teal ; the 

 golden eye ; the summer duck ; the dusky duck ; the winter duck ; the 

 trumpeter swan; the snow goose; the white-fronted goose; shooting on 

 drowned meadows ; by stream edges ; on points of the great lakes ; on the 

 rice lakes ; best guns for this sport. John Mullin's guns . . 333-350 



THE FOREST AND THE PLAINS. 



Moose ; cariboo ; elk ; buffalo ; antelope ; bear ; deer ; turkey. How to follow 

 trail ; not to be learned from books ; driving deer ; chasing on horseback : 



