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INDEX. 



Blain — directions for polishing rust from 



gun-barrels, 401. 

 Blow, treatment of, 504. 

 Bob-o-link, (see Reed-Bird,) 210. 

 Boots, shooting, 388. 

 best kind, 389. 

 receipts for dressing, 392. 

 Boswell — comments on Dr. Johnson's eat- 

 ing, 459. 

 Both eyes open, 60. 

 Bowles, Mr., description of the feeding 



of Woodcocks, 173. 

 Box, (see Battery,) 283. 

 Brace or couple, what is understood by 



a, 41. 

 Brant or Brent, Barnacle Goose, 385. 



Anas Bernicla — habits — haunts, 



335. 

 how killed — description, 336. 

 a gang of, 42. 

 Brewer — observation on the ventrilo- 

 quism of Rails, 221. 

 Brown, Captain — his work on Taxidermy, 



488. 

 Brown thickening for game, 480. 

 Bryan, Geoige H. — a Rail captured at 



sea, 221. 

 Buffel-headed Duck— Butter-ball, 320. 

 Anas Albeola, 820. 

 habits, haunts, and description, 

 321. 

 Buffaloes — great numbers destroyed, 91. 

 Buflfon — opinion as to the origin of the 

 Wild Turkey, 138. 

 statement respecting White Par- 

 tridges, 84. 

 Bull or Beetle-head, (see Plover,) 249. 

 Burlington, Iowa, 89. 



large numbers of Partidges 

 netted in neighborhood of, 

 89. 

 Burn, how to be treated, 506. 

 Bursting of guns, 418. 

 Bush River — toling ducks on, 278. 

 Butter-ball, (see BuH'«l-lieaded Duck,) 

 320. 



C 

 Canada Goose, (see Goose,) 329. 

 Grouse, 164. 

 Grouse met with in, 164. 

 Canard Cheval, 272. 

 Cannon, antiquity of, 432. 

 Canvas-back, 267. 



Anas Valisineria, 267. 

 their great repute, 267. 

 testimony of Wilson as to their 



peculiar delicacy, 268. 

 known only in America, 268. 

 description, history, and habits, 

 268. 



Canvas-back — continued. 



their food and haunts, 270. 

 shyness and modes of taking, 



278. 

 toling, boating, netting, 274. 

 use of dug-outs, 281. 

 batteries, surface-boats, or sinks, 



283. 

 description of batteries, 286. 

 decoys, 290. 



ambush on the flats, 292. 

 shooting off points, 293. 

 holes in the ice, 295. 

 point and bar-shooting, 296. 

 anecdote, 298. 

 art of shooting, 299. 

 verses descriptive of, 304. 

 Cap-chargers, 376. 

 Cap, Napoleon, 385. 

 Caps, Percussion, varieties of, 878. 

 Carolina, Reed-Birds in, 214. 



Snipe in, 194. 

 Cartridges, extensively used, 377. 



how made and when service- 

 able, 378. 

 Eley's patent, 380. 

 Celery sauce, how made, 478. 

 Ceylon, Snipes in, 194. 

 Citizens encourage killing game out of 

 season, 92. 

 should discountenance game sup- 

 pers, 93. 

 Chandler., M. T. W.— 



observations on Woodcocks, 



170. 

 observations on the haunts of 



Woodcocks, 182. 

 receipts for making water- 

 proof dressing for boots, 

 394. 

 Charadrius Apricarius, (see Black-Bellied 

 Plover,) 248. 

 Pluvialis, (see Golden Plover,) 

 250. 

 Charles the First — 



small-arms in the reign of, 435. 

 Charming birds, serpents, 72. 

 Chesapeake Bay — 



partridges caught on the shores 



of the, 88. 

 as a resort of wild fowl, 262. 

 various kinds of Ducks on, 262. 

 exciting times on, 268. 

 present and future numbers of 

 wild fowl on, 305. 

 China, gunpowder known in, 429, 

 Chinese, gunpowder known to, 429. 

 food of the, 464. 

 gunpowder used by the, 481. 

 Clapper Rail, (see Rallus Crepitans,) 237 

 Clean guns, 886 



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