INDEX 



Alaska — 



Golden plover, 331. 

 Ruffed grouse, 404. 

 Allen's ptarmigan [Z. /. alleni} 107, 



240. 

 Aleutian Islands, ptarmigan races, 



247. 

 American woodcock \Philohela 

 minorj — 

 Boring, 316-319. 

 Description, 303-321. 

 Food, "suction theory," worms, 



etc., 306-312. 

 Making woodcock ground, 318. 

 Mating, 312-314. 

 Mud haunts, 305, 309, 316. 

 Shooting, 304-305, 316, 320-321. 

 Young, 314-316. 

 Ammunition, procuring, 31-32. 

 Arizona, Gambel's partridge, 395. 

 Attwater's prairie-hen [T'. a, ait- 

 wateri] 107, 193. 



Badger state — ruffed grouse shoot- 

 ing, 132-138. 

 Bait, procuring, 311. 

 Bartramia hngicauda, see Bartram's 



sandpiper. 

 Bartram's sandpiper [Bartramia 

 longicauda'] — 

 Description, 325. 

 Flesh, value as food, 323, 329. 

 Haunts and range, 323. 

 Names, 322-323. 

 Shooting, 326. 

 Stalking, 328. 



Black-bellied Massena partridge, 



105. 

 Black-game importations, 346, 347. 

 Blue or crested quail. Pacific coast 



varieties, 377. 

 Blue Ridge, ruffed grouse shooting, 



141. 

 Bob-white [C virginianus] — 

 Abundance in U.S., 6. 

 Compared with mountain-quail, 



387. 390. 392, 393- 

 Compared with valley-quail, 378, 



382. 

 Florida type, I, 4, 85. 

 Masked Bob-white, I, 4, 89. 

 Mating, 8-12. 

 Packing, 98-99. 

 Sporting and other qualities, 



S-8. 

 Texan type, 1, 4, 87. 

 Varieties, 4. 

 [See also Quail.] 

 Bog — sand-hill crane shooting inci- 

 dent, 363-366. 

 Bonaparte, C. L. — turkey charac- 

 teristics, 264, 265, 266. 

 Bonasa umbellus — ruffed grouse, 

 107, 108. 

 \_See Ruffed grouse.] 

 Bonasa umbellus sabini — Sabine's 



grouse, 107, I43-I44- 

 Bonasa umbellus togata, Canadian 

 ruffed grouse, 107, 144- 

 145. 

 Bonasa umbellus umbelloides — gray 

 ruffed grouse, 107, 146. 



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