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INDEX. 



Dogs — continued. 



abandonment of all his race, 45. 



humility, companionship, 45. 



joy and sorrow of, 45. 



Walter Scott's account of a, 45. 



how to treat, 1 1 3. 



feed them yourself; reasons for, 



114. 

 how to enter — on the field, 115. 

 proper manner to hunt, 115. 

 half broken, young, and heedless, 



115. 

 good, young, old, 116. 

 timid, bold, 116. 

 correction of, 117. 

 never kick or shoot, 117. 

 act of pointing in, second nature, 



118. 

 not to flush the game, 118. 

 should find the dead bird, 119. 

 should be made to couch, 119. 

 retrievers diliicuU to Irain, 119. 

 to make — gentle with game, 121. 

 should hunt up wounded or dead 



game, 121. 

 how to hunt, 122. 

 when — come to a point, 123. 

 occasionally at fault, 123. 

 English not equal to American, 124. 

 accidental death of a, 207. 

 to tell the age of, 509. 

 Domery, Charles, celebrated glutton, 464. 

 his wonderful feats of eating, 464. 

 Domestic animals — 



their attachment and forced sub- 

 mission, 46. 

 how different from the dog, 46. 

 Down charge, 41. 

 Dubuque, immense load of game carried 



into, 63. 

 Ducks, art of shooting, 299. 

 toling, 274. 



further instructions on shooting, 

 301. 

 Duck Island, experiments at, 265. 

 Dockers, hints for, 264. 

 Dug-outs, description of, 281. 

 Dun-birds of England, 308. 

 Diipont, gunpowder made by, 407. 



composition and superiority of, 

 407. 

 Dusking, as applied to Wild-Fowl shoot- 

 ing, 323. 

 Dusky Duck, (see Black Duck), 822. 



E 



Ea8t, Wild Turkey not a native of the, 



136. 

 Eating-saloons encourage killing of game 



out of season, 92. 



Edward III. uses gunpowder, 432. 



guns in the reign of, 484, 

 Eggs, eating Partridge, 90. 



should be discountenanced, 91. 

 preserving, shells, 489. 

 Egypt, Snipe in, 194. 

 Egyptian Hercules, 430. 

 Eley's patent cartridge, 380. 

 Elizabeth Island, Pinnated Grouse on 



159. 

 Elk River- 

 immense drove of partridges en- 

 countered in the neighborhood 

 of, 81. 

 their singular actions, 82. 

 Elizabeth, Queen, uses gunpowder, 432. 



guns in the reign of, 434. 

 England, efforts to introduce the Ameri- 

 can Partridge into, 96. 

 Woodcock-shooting in, 191. 

 Land-Rail or Corn-Crake of, 



217. 

 Water-Crake or Spotted Rail 



of, 217. 

 gun-makers of, 435. 

 guns imported from, 439. 

 cost of guns imported from, 439. 

 Epicurus, followers of, 267. 

 Epreuvette, or powder-pro ver, 411. 

 Eye, pupil of the, 35. 

 seldom wrong, 52. 

 seldom at fault, 53. 

 how to treat a wounded, 507. 

 Eyre, J. M., exploits in Rail shooting, 

 230. 



F 



Featheks — ^jnimp or upper tail-coverts, 



35. 

 their position, character, and 



use, 35. 

 stronger in proportion to the 



habits of the bird, 35. 

 how formed in the Woodpecker 



tribe, 35. 

 how formed in the Water-Fowl, 



35. 

 acts as a rudder, 85. 

 Feathers — vent or under tail coverts, 85. 

 their position and character, 35. 

 longer on some Birds than others, 



35. 

 how developed in the Rallus Ca- 



rolinus, 35. 

 Feathers — sensation in, 37. 



delicate impressions conveyed 



by, 37. 

 nice organization of, in noctur- 

 nal birds, 37. 

 Feathers, shedding of, 38. 



