ADVERTISEMENT. 
THE object of this volume is neither to super- 
sede the works which I have formerly put forth on 
American Field Sports and Fishing, nor yet to sup- 
ply any omission in their pages. 
In fact, it is neither an abridgment of pages 
heretofore written, nor a compendium of facts al- 
ready published ; nor yet is it entirely an indepen- 
dent work, on a different branch of the same sub- 
ject. 
It was found, or believed, to be the case, by the 
publishers of those works, which, I may be permit- 
ted to say, have found some favor in the eyes of the 
sporting world, that a volume of less ambitious style 
and less expensive form, taking up the subject more 
rudimentally, commencing actually ab initio, deal- 
ing more with the practice and less with the higher 
spirit of Field Sports, insisting less on the natural 
