Index 



427 



Sage-grouse [Centrocercas uropha- 

 sianus] 210-220. 



Eggs, 214-216. 



Flesh, value as food, 213. 



Haunter of sage plains, 211-212. 



Hawk chase, 218-219. 



Mating, 214. 



Sporting qualities, 216-217. 

 Salt River Valley, Gambel's par- 

 tridge, 394. 

 San Bernardino, Gambel's partridge, 



395- 

 Sand-hill crane \Grus canadensis} — 

 Call of, 360. 

 Shooting, 359-366. 



Bog incident, 363-366. 

 Wounded crane, rapier play, 



361-365- 

 Sandpiper, see Bartram's sandpiper. 

 San Pedro Martir, mountain-quail, 



388. 

 San Pedro partridge [ O. p. confinis'] 



S. 91. 94- 

 Santa Barbara, dusky grouse, 411. 

 Santa Monica Mountains, quail, 385. 

 Scaled partridge [^Callipepla squa- 



mata'] 5, 91, 94. 

 Season, quail-shooting, end of, 64. 

 Seed hens — quail-shooting anec- 

 dote, 48. 

 Setters — 



Gordon setter, 35. 



Irish setter, 34. 



Llewellyn setters, see that title. 



Quail-shooting, 33-3S- 



Qualities for field work, 172- 



173- 

 Sharp-tailed grouse — 

 Columbian, 194. 



Prairie sharp-tailed grouse, see 

 that title. 

 Sharp-tailed grouse \_Pedioecetes 



pkasianellus'] 107, 193. 

 Shooting — 



Costume, see Sportsmen. 



Shooting {^continued} — 



Cross-firing, 40. 



Game law evasion, 175-176. 



Guns, see that title. 



Sportsmen, see that title. 



Stalking, see thai title. 



[See also names of game ^ 

 Sierra Nevada — 



Dusky grouse, 412, 415. 



Gambel's partridge, 394, 395. 

 Skunk-shooting incident, 203-205. 

 Snake, enemy of Texan Bob-white, 88. 

 Snow — 



Grouse shelters, 128-129. 



Ptarmigan plumage coloration, 

 222-223. 



Ptarmigan-shooting, 229-240 ; 

 snow-storm, 236-240. 



Quail-shooting, 66-71. 

 Snow-shoes of ptarmigan, etc., 223- 



224. 

 Sonora, Gambel's partridge, 394, 395. 

 Sooty grouse \D. u. fuliginosus} 



107, 152. 

 South Dakota, prairie-hen shooting, 



166-168. 

 Sportsmen — 



British sportsmen, 351-352. 



Costume — 



Gambel's partridge sport, 398. 

 Quail-shooting, 30. 



Eagerness to make the heaviest 

 bag — grouse anecdote, 63. 



Farmers' relationship to, 55-61. 



Nervousness, 41-42. 



Outfit, 30. 



\_See also Shooting.] 

 Squirrel — foe of dove, 370-374. 

 Stalking — 



Bartram's sandpiper, 328. 



Ruffed grouse, 112, 120-126. 



Whooping crane, 354. 



Tehichipi, dusky grouse range, 411. 

 Tetraonidce — partridge family, I. 



