Index 



585 



Currituck Club — 



Duck-shooting, 20-24. 



Goose-shooting, 206-209. 

 Cygnina, see Swans. 



Dafila acuta, see Pintail. 



Dan Petty, battery-shooting, Long 



Island, 33-38. 

 Davy, shore-bird shooting, 308. 

 Decoys, 7, 16. 

 Canvas, 18. 

 Dead ducks, 18. 

 Live decoys, see that title. 

 Locations for decoying ducks, 19. 

 Making and coloring, 17. 

 Placing, 18. 

 Swan decoy, 206, 208. 

 Decrease of water-fowl, see Water- 

 fowl. 

 Dendrocygna autumnalis, black-bel- 

 lied tree-duck, 253. 

 Dendrocygna fulva, fulvous tree- 

 duck, 255, 514. 

 Denmark, burrows dug for shel- 

 drakes, 72. 

 Destruction of water-fowl, see De- 

 crease under Water-fowl. 

 Dogs — 



Chesapeake dog, value in duck- 

 hunting, 11. 

 Rail-hunting, 280, 288, 290. 

 Dotterel \eudromiasmorinellus~\ 454. 

 Dowitcher, name for red-breasted 



snipe, 349. 

 Down of sea-ducks, value as article 



of commerce, 119. 

 Duck-shooting — 



Battery-shooting, see that title. 

 Blinds, see that title. 

 Boats, see that title. 

 Brant Pond, 21-24. 

 California, 503. 

 Chesapeake dog, value of, 11. 

 Clubs for hunters, see that title. 

 Craft, see Boats. 



Duck-shooting [continued'] — 



Decoys, see that title. 



Flight-shooting difficulties in Cali- 

 fornia, 505. 



Great South Bay, 33-37. 



Guns, 9. 



Ice-hole shooting, 60. 



James River experiences, 28. 



Line shooting, see that title. 



Long Point, 46. 



Methods, see Battery-shooting, 

 Decoys, etc. 



Mexican experiences, 57. 



Narrows Island Club recollec- 

 tions, 20. 



North Dakota recollections, 13. 



Pass shooting, see that title. 



Pearson's Pond, 50. 



Recollections, 6-7. 



Rice fields, wild, shooting in, 

 24-27. 



River shooting, 56. 



Spring shooting, abolition neces- 

 sary, 65-70. 



[See also names of various ducks.~\ 

 Ducks — 



Decrease of water-fowl, see Water- 

 fowl. 



Diagnosis of family and genera, 

 565. 



Mergansers, see that title. 



Pacific coast, see that title. 



River-ducks, see that title. 



Sea-ducks, see that title. 



Shooting, see Duck-shooting. 



[See also names of various 

 ducks."] 

 Dunlin [tringa alpina~\ 381. 

 Dunlin American, 382. 



Egyptian goose [chenalopex agyp- 



tiacus~\ 217. 

 Eider — 



American, 168. 



King, 172. 



