THE FIELD. 



SNIPE- SHOOTING. 



Op the different kinds of field snooting, as opposed to 

 river, lake, sea, or forest snooting, I propose to treat in 

 reference to the season of the year with which each sport 

 commences, beginning with the early spring-time, and con- 

 tinuing until the commencement of close-time, in those 

 States, where any game laws, whatever, prevail; which, 

 unfortunately, is the case only in a few of the Atlantic 

 States, and in the British Provinces, to a certain ex- 

 tent ; nor in these even are they, where they exist, ob- 

 served as they ought to be, even by those who profess to 

 be sportsmen. 



The first species of upland, or rather field game, which 

 comes into season in the Northern and Western States — in 

 the Southern States it is a winter resident — is the bird 



