Index 



583 



Bonaparte's sandpiper, name for 

 white-rumped sandpiper, 



374- 

 Booby, name for ruddy duck, 187. 

 Bosworth farm, goose-shooting in 



the stubbles, 209. 

 Brant — 



Black brant, 248, 544. 

 Breeding and migration, 38, 245- 



248. 

 Common brant, 243. 

 Shooting — 



Chatham Bay, 38. 

 Virginia, 41. 

 Brant goose [branta bernicla glau- 



cogastra] 244. 

 Brant Pond, duck-shooting, 21-24. 

 Branta bernicla, common brant, 



243- 

 Branta bernicla glaucogastra, brant, 



244. 

 Branta canadensis, see Canada 



goose. 

 Branta canadensis hutchinsii, 



Hutchins' goose, 239. 

 Branta canadensis occidenlalis t 



white-cheeked goose, 241. 

 Branta leucopsis, barnacle goose, 



250. 

 Branta nigricans, black brant, 248, 



544- 

 Breeding, interbreeding among wild 



fowl, 201-203. 

 Briggs, J. J., instance of harlequin 



breeding, 159. 

 Bristle-thighed curlew [numenius 



tahiliensis~\ 449. 

 Broadbill, scaup duck, and lesser 



scaup duck, 134, 137. 

 Buff-breasted sandpiper \tryngites 



subruficollis~\ 430. 

 Buffle-head \charitonetta albeola~\ 



150, 530. 

 Bunn, shore-bird shooting, Shinne- 



cock Bay, 306, 



Bush blinds, duck-shooting from, 

 27. 

 Red-head shooting, 126. 

 Butterball, resort of, 152. 



Cackling goose [bernicla canadensis 



minima"] 242. 

 Cairina moschala, see Muscovy duck. 

 Caladris arenaria, Sanderling, 392. 

 California — 



Duck-shooting, 503. 

 Water-fowl of Pacific coast, see 

 Pacific coast. 

 California clapper rail [rallus obsole- 



tus~\ 276. 

 California, Gulf of, home of quanti- 

 ties of game, 559. 

 Camptolaimus labradorius, see Lab- 

 rador duck. 

 Canada goose [branta canadensis] — 

 Breeding, 233. 

 Characteristics and habits, 232— 



239- 

 Decoys, 205. 

 Domestication, 5, 238. 

 Hybrids, 5, 239. 

 Massachusetts club sport, 236. 

 Nest in Okanogan district, B.C., 



233- 

 Night hunting, 238. 

 North Carolina coast, 236. 

 Pacific coast, 533. 

 Resorts of birds and dates of 



visitation, 235. 

 Canvas-back [aythya vallisneria'] — 

 Characteristics, 128-133. 

 Chesapeake Bay, destruction of 



game, 129. 

 Pacific coast, 523. 

 Shooting methods, 52, 131. 

 Canvas decoys for duck-shooting, 18. 

 Cape Cod — 



Brant season, 247. 



Shore-bird shooting at Monomoy, 



303- 



