INDEX. 



XXXV 



Quail — continued. 



a migratory bird, 80. 



trail at night, 81. 



employed in combat, 81 . 



not esteemed as food, 81 



assemble in innumerable bodies, 89. 



killed in immense numbers, 89. 



people surfeited with, 89. 

 Quail Snipe, 256. 



R 



Rabbit, Gray, (see Hare.) 



Rail or Sora, Rallus Carolinus, 217. 



description, nomenclature, 217. 

 history, &c., 218. 

 singular characteristics, 221. 

 Rail, their food and resorts, 222. 

 shooting, 224. 



paraphernalia for shooting, 227. 

 pushers for shooting, 227. 

 tides, 228. 

 numbers killed, 230. 

 shooting in Virginia, 231. 

 fire-shooting, 231. 

 netting, 232. 

 fish prey upon, 232. 

 where to shoot, 232. 

 expense of shooting, 233. 

 terms applicable to, 42. 

 cooking, 474. 



vent-feathers large in the, 85. 

 Rallus Crepitans — 



Clapper Rail or Mud Hen, 237. 

 nomenclature and locality, 237. 

 period of incubation, 238. 

 where killed, 239. 

 Rallus Elegans — Great Red-breasted Rail, 

 235. 

 King Rail, Fresh-water Marsh 



Hen, 235. 

 description, 235. 

 history, habits, and haunts, 236. 

 Raspail, Monsieur — 



theory of serpent-charming, 74. 

 Rattlesnake, curious experiments with, 



73. 

 Reed-Bird— Rice-Bunting, 210. 

 Emberiza Oryzivora, 210. 

 history and nomenclature, 210. 

 description, 211. 

 migrations— their feeding-gtounds, 



211. 

 shooting, 212. 

 netting, 213. 

 compared with Ortolan of Europe, 



213. 

 anecdote, 213. 

 progress south, 214, 

 curious facts, 215. 

 as a cage-bird, 215. 



Reed-Bird — continued. 



change of plumage, 216. 

 terms applicable to, 42. 

 cooking, 474. 

 Red-headed Duck, 308. 

 Red-head, 308. 

 Anas ferina, 308. 

 habits and haunts, 30S. 

 Red-headed Widgeon of England, 

 308. 

 Register, extract from a friend's shoot- 

 ing, 112. 

 Retriever — how trained, 119. 



diflBculty of training a, 119. 

 good ones very scarce, 119. 

 authoi"'s views of, 119. 

 Rice- Bunting, (see Reed-Bird,) 210. 

 Richards, Westley, gun-maker, 439. 



bill of a gun purchased of, 440. 

 Rifle, shooting with a, 50. 



exploits of the Toomers with, 50. 

 killing Pigeons with, 50. 

 striking cricket-balls with, 50. 

 exploits of our backwoodsmen with, 



50. 

 German jagers use, 51. 

 killing Squirrels with, 51. 



Wild Turkeys with, 51. 

 exploits of keel-boatmen with, 61. 

 driving the nail with, 51. 

 snuffing the candle with, 51, 

 shooting apples from the head with, 

 51. 

 Ring-Plover, 251. 

 Rock Island — 



numbers of Partridges on, 1 10. 

 Rocky Mountains — 



Canvas-back on the streams of 

 the, 270. 

 Romans, festive boards of the, 464. 

 RuflFed Grouse, (see Grouse.) 

 Rumford, Count — comments on cooking, 



458. 

 Rump, Bill, celebrated Rail-pusher, 227. 

 Russia, Snipe in, 195. 

 Rusting, to prevent, of barrels, 899, 

 how to remove, 399. 



s 



Sarqeant, Dr. R. Percy — 



observation on habits of Wild 



Turkey, 130. 

 further observation, 140. 

 Sauces or gravies, 479. 

 Savages — their gluttony, 463. 

 Scapulars, shoulder-feathers, 34. 

 Schwarz, Berthold, discoverer of gun- 

 powder, 406. 

 invention of gunpowder attri- 

 buted to, 431. 



